I got hit with a nice one-two punch. First, I was bumped to Master tees, which means that I can't play properly on the longer courses. Then the Qualifier opened up, and I got notched another box back.
Basically, WGT created a disincentive to play the game like it is meant to be played. I "did everything right" and played ranked rounds on all the courses, trusting that I would be "put where I belong" as WGT has said so many times. Where in reality, I would have been better off just playing a CTTH game once a day to get my 880xp and not lowering my average or picking up ranked rounds.
Because of this, I'm just not playing WGT nearly as much as I used to. I plan on playing one CTTH game every day, and then just ignoring the site otherwise until I've notched up to lvl 62 so I can pick up an R9.
Game just isn't worth playing until my distance is more in line with my tier.