I don't see how they can address this "challenge" to make it fairer for smaller clubs without wholesale changes, and any I can think of would = less $s potential in the short term.
Changes though presuppose it is a competition when it is only a ball and pass buying exercise where one person gets a golden putter which is bad for the game anyway. Proudly the CC I am in never went for it, and came 1023rd I think. Genuinely astonishes me why any one went for it, and amazes me any one below ANCC played it out after 5 minutes chasing what? Gnomes? Like for real. Certainly there was no achievement whatsoever in placing as there was no competition worth speaking of.
If WGT want a properly run competition model they need look no farther than the Forum Grand Prix, but that would involve effort and skill, not some wishful smash and grab debacle every whatever. Astonishing as I may think the silliness, ahem Event, is some did go for it, and whether that's enough to make it worthwhile only WGT have the numbers.
If everyone did the same as Bridge it would force a change very quickly, but they never.....................