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I noticed that WGT is no longer sponsoring premium prizes for premium
tournaments. Wgt used to have a golfsmith.com gift card of $150.00 for
first place in the Master Tier premium monthly tourny. Now they are
only offering 15,000 WGT credits for first. I wouldn't have a problem
with this except that on a dollar for dollar basis, to buy the same gift
card from their elite collection I would have to win about 99,000 WGT
credits (6.60 monthly wins). To top it off, WGT doesn't sell a $150.00
Golf Smith card so I would have to acquire 165,000 credits (11 monthly wins)
for a $250.00 card.
Wgt has effectively reduced the payout of these premium tournaments 85% and
how much have they reduced the entrance fee, ... zero!!! If WGT had made
the switch to their credits but retained the pure value of winning (say 99,000
credits vs. 15,000) I wouldn't be writing. I had always loved and tried
to played this tournament exclusively. Sometimes I won and sometimes not,
but I had fun. It was a great feeling to that prize in the mail,
Wgt credits and their conversion rate (Elite Collection) is atrocious.
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