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Robert1893: I only know of one player who seems to fit that description. And that didn't appear to be a situation in which WGT just promoted the player to TL, without the player's input in the process.
There's some strange scores going on in the Tour Pro Merion classic. In regards to el3n1, I believe he was referring to a guy who was promoted to TL after 160xx ranked rounds. I find this interesting considering the player had no match play wins vs Legend players or above. Incidently that same guy joined in Dec 2017.
There has always been the potential to Zoom up to Legend tier; based on Tournament results and Match Play. However, at least as far as I knew, it always took 500 ranked rounds to get promoted to Tour Legend. If you end up on WGT radar it seems like it now takes 160xx games or less. Keep in mind we're talking Total Ranked rounds, not just Legend ranked.
(@ the highlighted text) "Only" since September 2012 ;-)
@ Robert
the 160 RR guy, who funnily enough didn't post a score in round 2 of the Oly challenge (53 in round 1), is not the only one. There were a few throughout the years. I think Molotov (for those who remember) was the 1st, his resurrection Hector was the 2nd and a few others followed. Probably someone reported them and WGT discovered, they played at a higher tier before. But all of these accounts were disabled a month or 2 after the tier up happened.