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why so many WD in RGs?

• Joshnosh 548 Posts

  Wed, Feb 27 2013 6:00 AM

  every R i play it makes no sense 10-15 WDs im assuming u still lose your credits so why on earth would you withdraw?

• tiffer67 1,764 Posts

  Wed, Feb 27 2013 6:23 AM

  I rarely withdraw from RGs no matter how badly the round is going, that said there are some where frustration with myself takes over and it becomes pointless to continue. If you have thousands and thousands of credits the loss of your stake is immaterial and many would rather move on to the next one.

• jsweetcr 1,209 Posts

  Wed, Feb 27 2013 6:26 AM

  a couple three reasons I think, but not sure

  1. you sign up for a ready go, but don't play it immediately, and it fills up pretty fast, the 12 hour clock starts(assuming you actually get 12 hours) and you don't make it back in time to actually play. My guess is this would show as a withdraw, maybe not, but just throwing out some scenarios. (i have had this come close to happening 2 times now in last two days)

  2. Similar to #1. You sign up and start the match and life calls and you don't make it back in time to finish the round.

  3.  In some of the open non tier based RGs a lot of the top players know that in order to make the top 30 and make even just a little bit of credits, they have to hit certain scores.  If they come out and on the first few holes just play like crap and make some bogeys or whatever, they know there is no chance of making anything, so maybe they withdraw.  I would think they still finish the round for the experience or whatever, but maybe not. Maybe they just play so many that winning the credits is more important and if they know they can't they just withdraw and move on to the next RG.

  I'm sure there are other reasons, just my thoughts

• Joshnosh 548 Posts

  Wed, Feb 27 2013 6:27 AM

  so i am assuming that the guys you see on the leading money list enter nearly every one?

  i only enter 3 a day the ones i think i have a chance of getting some credits in

• jsweetcr 1,209 Posts

  Wed, Feb 27 2013 6:52 AM

  that would be my guess...or nearly...they enter a lot

  I just enter my tier based ones right now.  There are 4 and at present they are cycling almost every day which works for me

• JackTaylor 225 Posts

  Wed, Feb 27 2013 7:00 AM

  another reason is they don't want their average effected whether is it is going up or down depending on which direction they want their tier to go. If they shoot a low score but know it is going to help them win they withdraw and the opposite they shoot bad and dont want their average to go up. 

  My thoughts..

• villadeoro 419 Posts

  Wed, Feb 27 2013 7:14 AM

  I play a lot of RG and WD alot of them too. For me, is a simple question, have few time to play them and...if make a bad score in few holes, prefer to probe in other RG to win credits and let that others players that could win credits harder than me save few of them.

  If i will need each credit that i play...i will play all holes and not WD, but, if you have credits enough....you dont need to spend more time to recover credits.

  About learn more about game....if you played rounds like i did it.....you dont need too much information about holes......i dont tell that i know all about this game...only that, when i dont learn more...could be because i cant learn more!

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Wed, Feb 27 2013 7:15 AM

  Once an "Old Hand" at these games misses a couple of birdies they know that they won't earn so they just quit to save balls.

• CerinoDevoti 3,232 Posts

  Wed, Feb 27 2013 7:23 AM

  The "top" top players simply know from experience where the point of diminishing return is on their investment in the entry fee. They tend to use the best GB's and know at what score after so many holes they'll be wasting the hits on the ball if they finish the round outside of the payouts. From a purely business perspective "breaking even" on the entry fee is a net loss in ball hits I would think. I never play RG's but looking at it from the outside these players have the knowledge they need to make the wise decision. Paying the entry fee plus using up all the hits it takes to finish while not receiving a net positive payout is what they're avoiding by the WD. They still give up the entry fee but save greater loss in the end on ball usage.

  I would also venture to guess there's always some players who realize they've gotten in over their heads and WD for ego reasons but again, my guess is they'd be in the minority.

   ***Edit***

  ... or you could read the short and sweet version Courtney wrote above while I was bloviating. lol

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Wed, Feb 27 2013 7:41 AM

  CerinoDevoti:

   ***Edit***

  ... or you could read the short and sweet version Courtney wrote above while I was bloviating. lol

  Short and sweet, that's me. :-)