I made a suggestion a couple of weeks ago, but up to press nobody as made any sort of comment, good or bad. So i presume it is either impossible to implement or not worth bothering about.
Anyway, I've thought further on this subject and would like to run this by WGT again and hope i get some feed back. So here i go again.
Why not scrap the scoring averages and start afresh. Everybody would be on 00.00. Whatever tier a player is on would remain the same though. Each player would then have to complete one full 18 hole round on all the four courses,and once started must be finished no matter what. After a player as completed his or her four 18 hole rounds there average is then set by the side of there name. I know some players will have meter issues and other problems while setting there average, but thats just the way the cookie crumbles, and it wont take long for the good players to get there averages back to what there true skill factor is.
Any player without an average will not be eligible to play in any tournament or ready-go games until they have completed the above requirement. Only 18 hole tournaments and 18 hole ready-go games would count towards your score average. All 9 hole games[ including tournaments ] and 18 hole stroke play games would not be ranked. Lets face it, in real golf your score averages dont count in friendly games so if we want to be as realistic as possible why should they count here. All other averages would not be affected i.e. birdies-eagles-putting etc.
Players with no average, for whatever reason they have chosen not to acquire theres at the moment, can still take part in everything else that WGT as to offer.
When playing in a stroke play game with other players, if score averages are not a factor then there is no reason to quit, this also applies to players who have a score average. this should cut down a vast amount of games that get spoiled by players who are just protecting there false averages.
Now for the sandbaggers.
Lets say a sandbagger who is in the amateur tier plays the 18 hole game on the four courses, but chooses to keep his or her average artificially high, and then enters an amateur tournament and maybe wins it, well i doubt that anything can be done about that, but he can be stopped from winning again in that tier. The winner of any tournament, and the nine other players below him would automatically move up to the next tier.
And just one more thing to add. I would make it compulsory for every single master to play an18 hole game on all four courses once a month