lee22sharon:
rather an arbutary statement gofbals. i have found that if you make a chat entry, such as, "sorry emrg must leave" and depart in the correct manner, so that the game will not be sacrificed, it would stand you in good stead. if you can not spare the necessary 5.8 seconds it takes to make that chat entry you may be called on it. if it is me i will goad, hound, berate, chatize you unmercifly, inform others if you are a member of a country club, if your user name enters a conversation, your reputation will be mentioned. one of the golf communities most admired traits is comadre. gaining a reputation as a QUITTER, or a LOSER,POSER,BAD SPORT, i think would be something i wouldn't want. only my nickels worth. i still got a whole pocket full of change.
I'm sure that you are quite correct about poor sports quitting games when they have a bad round going, but you're wrong to think that only quitters, losers, poor sports, and posers suffer the indignity of a WGT disconnect.
I have never quit a round at WGT. Never. Not once in almost 2 years here. I'm a member of a country club that has only one rule, No Quitting. We pride ourselves on never quitting a round and usually play amongst ourselves so as to always be sure to finish with everyone that started.
A couple of weeks ago, I was in an Alt Shot match with some non-members (a pick-up game, if you will) and the match was AS after 3 holes. On the 4th hole my partner hit a terrible shank that left us in 50-60, and I could only manage to advance it far enough for him to have a shot from about 25 yds in 30-40. No biggie, he gets it close and I make the putt, right? It's a 90 second timer and I start getting a little nervous as it crosses 10 seconds and nothing has happened. The timer runs all the way down to :00 and stops, but then nothing. No warning, no reset...nothing. After about another 10-20 seconds I figure the game is locked up and I refresh my window. I get the "You or your partner has forfeited the match..." dialog box and I figure something just happened to the game.
But thats not exactly what happened. I found out later that they were all punted back to the lobby with a 5:00 timer (while I was still looking at my partners avatar and wondering when he was going to hit). But instead of waiting for me to return, this idiot opponent starts badgering my partner to forfeit because I was a QUITTER, which he does to shut the moron up. So when I finally get back, the game is gone and this same idiot later leaves some unflattering flame on my wall about how I was such a LOSER and left my poor partner and how I was going on his "do not play" list.
Believe me, I'm happy to be on his list (you can put me on yours too), because the last thing I need in life is to play a game with some uninformed Nazi who thinks he knows everything. I know, it wasn't you...you weren't here that day....it was some other idiot.