Here is the letter I just wrote to WGT regarding lost balls:
A lost ball on the 18th hole at Olympic in the weeds ???
Really ????
I have written to you many times in the past about how your lost ball policy is the only downfall to this wonderful game. But I have accepted most of it. If I hit a bad shot into the water or the ocean, I get it. I deserve to lose the ball. But weeds ???? Come on now.
At the very least here is what you should do for your
customers (most of them paying customers like myself)
We all know where the water is and that if a ball goes in it gets lost. That's obvious. It's not obvious at all which area of weeds will eat your virtual golf ball. So I would suggest that WGT put some information out on holes where balls can get lost. And put where on the hole the ball will be lost if you hit it there.
I, for one, had NO IDEA that I could lose a ball on the 18th hole of Olympic (or anywhere on Olympic) for that matter).
After reading your replies to my emails about lost balls in the past, you have at least convinced me that some of the lost balls should be part of the game. But you will never convince me that losing balls in weeds should be a part of this game.
Please at least make it fair for your customers. Stop taking balls that are ht into the weeds, or at the very least tell us where the weeds are that will eat the golf ball.
Thank you.