JimbeauC: Of course there are idiots such as I who buy them anyway. That's just me supporting my CC.
No problem for those with an excess of free credits (not me).
And, CC support is not a real argument to me. There's no real (financial) advantage except for the Putting & Shot Pals which come early. O.k., some more tournaments for active CCs, but the gain in XPs brings nothing but the opportunity to spend more credits sooner.
At last, the promotions become scarce since the XP gaps are becoming colossal. TPC is gonna break level 9 eventually at 6.6 Mio XPs - wonder how much level 10 will be...
Did you know that there will be no "benefit" in level 14? *chuckles*