I am amazed at how often people just disconnect from a game in progress when they're suddenly having a bad hole, or when another player is on a hot streak, and they've decided they're unlikely to win the match, so they just bail. I had someone do this on the last hole of a 9-hole match play game, where I had one putt left; they knew then they couldn't win, so they just disconnected. I've had it happen on the first hole of a 3-hole match when I might par or birdie, and they bogie or double, and poof!, they're gone.And at all points in between. It really does happen a lot.
The problem is, they usually don't officially forfeit, they just disconnect the session, without so much as a chat message to say they're leaving. And then it takes the game a while to decide that they've disconnected and left. That leaves the other player / rest of the players sitting there, waiting, for an unnecessarily long time, and possibly without a round to finish.
Heck, you committed to 3 holes, or 9 holes, or whatever. Can't you stick it out and just play out the round you've signed on for? Don't you owe that much to the other player? Yeah, at that point you're probably right, you're probably going to lose. So what? You win some, you lose some -- you don't just pick up your ball and go home in the middle of the game.
Perhaps WGT should monitor that. Sure, sometimes a disconnect will be accidental (I once meant to close a pop-up and clicked on the wrong 'X' and accidentally disconnected from a round myself, feeling bad for having done that to the other player). Or it might be due to system issues. I get that. But if someone does it repeatedly (pick some threshold, period, frequency values upon which to base the metric) then perhaps they should be temporarily suspended, or maybe charged coins / credits, or something.
It's just very annoying to those of us who prefer to play out the rounds we commit to or, at the very least, who send a message and forfeit officially if we have to leave mid-round.