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• BornTalent 30 Posts

  Mon, Jun 9 2014 9:39 AM

  Is there a reason that "Pro's" decline matches or leave matches??  I will join a "Blitz game", and once I put "ready", the highest ranked guy always drops out.  Are they scared to lose to me.. or is it that there is some loss they take for playing an amateer?

• ZioMio 4,680 Posts

  Mon, Jun 9 2014 11:30 AM

  BornTalent:

  playing an amateer

  with a born on date of 2011?

  Little to much sand in that bag!

• mbcarp99 1,078 Posts

  Mon, Jun 9 2014 11:41 AM

  ZioMio:

  BornTalent:

  playing an amateer

  with a born on date of 2011?

  Little to much sand in that bag!

  That's a little presumptuous, looks like he took a 3 year break to me

• AndreasHelke 676 Posts

  Mon, Jun 9 2014 11:49 AM

  Beginning players, and I count Pros among them often need a lot of time to figure out their shots. This can be tedious for a better player who usually figures out his shot in a few seconds when casually playing. Therefore I often restrict my games to Tourpro or Master and above. But sometimes I don´t care about speed and let anybody into my game.

• ZioMio 4,680 Posts

  Mon, Jun 9 2014 12:01 PM

  mbcarp99:

  That's a little presumptuous

  Maybe so, but with so many multi-accounters, one can never be sure.

• BornTalent 30 Posts

  Mon, Jun 9 2014 12:04 PM

  What does that mean?  I don't know the cool termanology or the "rules" or "ranking rules", etc... 

  I signed up for this game because it popped up as an ad a few years back at work, and played it for about 3-4 days at work, then left job and never played again.  Ran across it again while dumping out my email box and started playing again at new job about a week or 2 ago.  Not sure what bearing any of that has to do with people dropping out??

   

   

   

• EnriccoP 3,767 Posts

  Mon, Jun 9 2014 2:19 PM

  You have two things working against you- being an amateur who has been on WGT for 3 years-

  Some will figure you are a sandbagger because you haven't tiered up past amateur in 3 years. 

  Some will see the amateur and think you are no good and won't want to waste time. 

  I'm not saying that's fair, but that's how it is. It will be easier to get games when you reach the pro level.

   

• ZAP63 2 Posts

  Mon, Jun 9 2014 2:38 PM

  It's because they don't wanta play with lower ranked players !! happens to me a lot !

• spdemon 1,588 Posts

  Mon, Jun 9 2014 3:58 PM

  BornTalent:

  What does that mean?  I don't know the cool termanology or the "rules" or "ranking rules", etc... 

  I signed up for this game because it popped up as an ad a few years back at work, and played it for about 3-4 days at work, then left job and never played again.  Ran across it again while dumping out my email box and started playing again at new job about a week or 2 ago.  Not sure what bearing any of that has to do with people dropping out??

   

   

   

  lol it does not matter bro low lvl player or one who makes it up the ranks to fast your gonna catch slack here as far as blitz games r concerned idk why people wont play unless u have a bad completion rating is all i can guess 

  now stroke play is a different story some people dont want to be in a game of 9 holes for over a hr 

• BornTalent 30 Posts

  Tue, Jun 10 2014 5:10 AM

  The funny thing is, it takes me about 10 seconds to take a shot.  I look at the wind, the distance, and then swing with whatever club is chosen for me.  It's usually the higher ranked players that I see taking forever, because they have to switch clubs, move things around, etc... 

  I have never dropped a game, and I have mostly played "Blitz" games where you have to get closest to the hole, and I usually either win, or come very close to winning.  The game really isn't that hard once you get the timing down.