We’re making improvements to how your Average Score is calculated and
when you advance to the next Tier in WGT. These changes will help
players in the same Tier to compete more fairly, and encourage everyone
to complete more rounds and earn more experience points so they reach
new Levels faster.
Here are the improvements…
- Your
Average Score will be based on multiple best scores within ONLY your
current Tier, not scores that you shot when in previous Tiers, which
better reflects your current skill competing with the tee boxes and
green speeds in your current Tier.
- Your Average Score will
be based on ONLY your best scores, so completing a bad round will not
negatively impact your Average Score or Tier. So be sure to finish all
your rounds and gain the extra experience points, as a bad day won’t
matter.
- Advancing to the next Tier requires a qualifying
Average Score AND a minimum amount of completed stroke play games, which
will take a little more time but will help players reach the Levels
necessary to unlock upgraded equipment that is helpful to compete at
higher Tiers.
WGT is not disclosing the exact number of rounds
used to calculate your Average Score, or the minimum Average Score
that’s used to advance you to the next Tier. That’s because those
numbers will change over time based on overall player scoring, and also
because we want to avoid people using that information for unfair
advantage.
Another benefit of these changes is that it will
discourage the practice of creating multiple accounts for the purpose of
progressing rapidly to a mid-range Tier where someone can compete
unfairly in match play or tournaments. WGT has also added a number of
algorithms to monitor scores to watch for and discourage this type of
behavior.