Actually playing for free is not any harder than paying to play . The keys to being a free player are simple :
#1 Patience You have to take your time and plot your advancement .
#2 Discipline Being able to monitor your self and how you handle your credits.
#3 Priorities whats most important in the game to you . Is it better play or better clubs or to play the pay tournaments for credits . If you start with better clubs then the rest will fall into place . Better clubs means better play and maybe a better chance to play and win credit tournaments .
You have to handle your credit account like its a real money account . You have to save your credits and build up to get the things that you want . If you want a driver that costs 3500 credits then you build and save the 3500 credits . You cant play pay and save all at the same time . So you will have to pace yourself and priortize how you want to spend your credits .
As you level up you will have to pace your upgrades and club purchases . Plan all of your upgrades and try to get the most out of them as possible . If done properly you will only make about 3 - 4 full club upgrades while playing this game .
You wont be able to afford the credit pay tournaments and RGs to start . Put those far down on the list of things to do .
Start with doing the offers to earn the credits and let that be your only focus . Play practice rounds to level up and take your time to learn the clubs that you have . Price the clubs that you want and then work to get them . There are plenty of offers that are easy to get credits from . You just have to find them and do them .
So contrary to the myths its very easy to earn credits for free play . Ive been doing it now for 6 1/2 years . I currently have all of the top clubs and never spent a penny of my money to get them . Also Im over 29,000 credits currently earned in my account and counting . Once you get to the point that only ball replacement is needed . Then it really gets easy to earn credits .
Im not the only player to accomplish playing for free credits . There are many others who too are doing the same thing as me . So its really not that hard to do .