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• Glossopade 518 Posts

  Sun, Sep 1 2013 3:53 AM

  YankeeJim:

  Wasn't calling you out, Gloss, just got aggravated at the petty criticism of every little plus WGT comes up with. It's not for me either.  :-)

  Point taken Jim. I do try to be constructive, rather than criticising everything they do, because that's an easy trap to fall into. Not sure why, but this issue really got my back up though. Must be my age ! 

• SpitfireIX 27 Posts

  Sun, Sep 1 2013 4:05 AM

  srellim234:

  Milfshake:

  I just hit on into the lake and it took my ball and so I hit mulligan and I didnt get my ball back....

   

  Just -2 on the very next ball... 

  You shouldn't get the ball back. In real life if you take a mulligan on a lost ball you still lose the ball. It doesn't magically reappear.

  The -2 is really poor on WGT's part though. Ball life should only be charged one hit for each time a club actually strikes the ball. No more than that. 

   

  Erm, I think Milfshake means that he didn't get a mulligan, and that he got a one-stroke penalty for hitting his ball in the water (stroke into water + penalty stroke = 2).  I don't think you can measure ball wear-and-tear down to the nearest stroke.

• srellim234 2,077 Posts

  Sun, Sep 1 2013 8:13 AM

  YankeeJim:

  So you would rather have a driving range where WGT could really get you with the cost of a bucket of balls? FFS, it's a plus to have it, quit crying about a couple of hits on a ball and be happy you have a way to learn difficult shots.

  If your reaction is about our reaction to the mulligan price, none of us indicated we would rather have a driving range given the choice.

  They're not only hiding the real price but the sliding scale price of the mulligan is poor. Charging by taking away hits on the ball is anywhere from free when using free balls to the equivalent of around 4 credits per mulligan when using top of the line balls. They are hoping that most people will not see the real price and variable rates, instead seeing it as just a "couple of hits on a ball" as you do.

  I'm advocating for a simple flat-rate charge for the mulligans here. The same price for every user, the same as every other item on this site. With this they are opening up the door to sliding scale pricing on all types of items for any myriad of reasons.

• phiber 2,795 Posts

  Sun, Sep 1 2013 9:09 AM

  Actually, the mulligan expense isn't really that great if you consider what you will learn from taking a mulligan.  sure it costs a couple of credits, but you also get some knowledge about that particular shot that can be applied later on that same hole or on many others.  Were you to play those rounds to try to replicate that shot, how much would it cost you in ball usage?

  It isn't a bad deal at all and something that if properly used will give you a lot of knowledge and skill it would take you a long time to learn otherwise.

  good luck with it