Well Jim, it has pretty much stuffed a game I was really enjoying. I'm down from about 12+ rounds per day to 3 practice holes.
The change seems to be related to ready go's. Do well and you get arbitrarily accelerated into the next tier. The issue as I see it is that there will always be some players that do well in an RG (someone wins) so all players will get flushed through. Then you end up in a tier without access to the necessary equipment so you stop playing competition rounds.
For the life of me I don't see any sense in it. Playing hard and going in comps makes WGT money. So rushing players into tiers they can't compete in is counter productive for WGT and the players enjoyment. I've worked out I have 119 days of "not playing" until I can earn the right to pay WGT more money and start playing hard again......about 3 times as many days as it took to get where I am now.
The balance is certainly out. It also explains to me why the lower tier RG's took days to fill. The players that would play them had been booted out of the tier.