Yankee don't sell them out to soon - - I know and see what Fredyourman is looking for, the same thing as my brother-in-law that is 64 is looking for.
It is not this game we call golf I can't get him to play - it's how to control the meter that keeps him from playing. His answer go back over to a different golf game with it's chessy graphics that look like they was done by 2nd graders with crayolas, and his avatar looks more like a rat, then a man. He is a disabled VET plays everyday for about 6 to 10 hours, a member of a Country Club only there it is Guild of over 350 members.
So allow me to use him as the example to compare to the question that Fredyourman is in search of.
Fredyourman plays WGT ------------------------------------- Bumble Bump / plays golf game
I am Sixty Two years old and disabled, ---------- Bro-n-law 64 and disabled / on oxygen
now I love the game - ----------------------------------- - plays 6 to 10 hrs a day / I say hooked
The problem is high meter speed - ------------------- - buys power drinks to slow meter
Fredyourman - -So what I am asking is it not possible to at least make a few of the good clubs available with a slow swing meter.
Bunble Bump - - playing competitors game does just that - clubs are rented, rental fee is weekly, monthly - pays 20 dollars a month for clubs. Then he buys drinks to use to slow the game meter down, another 20 dollars a month. Is there a market out there I would have to say yes / after he pays rent to live at assisted living housing, they do everything for these folks. So why does he spend so much time at golf and spend more to play a game, could be because after his war time accident he got tired of folks staring at him. His escape from his realty to get on an imaginary golf game chat it up with people that treat him different then real life does, smash huge drives and drop birdies all day long, but why does he do it. Because he can't get the same respect in real life as he does on an imaginary golf game, in an imaginary place, with an avatar that looks more like a Rat then a person. He is blind in one eye, shakes from the brain damage from being shot, stays on oxygen, skins is odd color with eczema that cause scaling and flaking - he is not welcomed in public, he knows that, has dealt with it, and moves on the best way he knows how. <------- none of this makes him a second class citizen does it, mostly yeah when you see the reactions he gets. It'is just the cost of what we call FREEDOM here in America. It was asked of him to pay for it, so he paid for it, asked if he could go back and change it, his reply "Hell no I saved hundreds of men and womens lives that day".
In short if he wants to spend 50 or more dollars every month to play an imaginary game, in an imaginary place, so he can chat with a few people that call him a good friend, send him birthday cards, and wish him Merry Christmas. I would say he has earned that right to spend as much as he wants to feel good about him self even if it is in an imaginary place, on an imaginary golf course at 8:15 in the morning with a slight breeze in his face. Sure it is not really happening, but in his mind he can think back to how that felt when he could do it, and the rush of emotions, the feelings, the friends, the flood gates open and it happens as soon as the ball takes flight on a path that all of us know "WE JUST SMASHED IT - And IT IS BEAUTIFUL" all of it is in in our head, yet a mouse click away.
WGT look for away to get them here, and they will play, and they will spend.
They don't want to win tourney's / They don't want to be the best / They want the flood gates to open - they want the rush, the friends, give them a way to do it, they will do it, and don't have a problem spending a few bucks to get it.
I have but just a few friends here at WGT - we pick times to come meet up play some Alt Shot, poke fun at each other, laugh it up, drink a couple beers, chase the beer cart girl around on Kaiwah Island. Yeah we know she is not over there under that shade tree on number 4 or even over between 7 and 8. Just like when you play St. Andy there is not really a PUB just across the way, just off the green by the street, or is there? Yeah we know that is not what WGT set out for, but we keep coming back not because we shot sub par every 9 or 18, because we enjoy what takes place that has nothing to do with the game. Shooting the Royal when it is 62 degrees, I become the punch line, little chilly this morning in my kilt, and the wind blowing, sure glad I brought my FuzzyBallz.
Well this old man has rambled on long enough for now, the grand kids poke fun at me for playing a golf game "but papa it is not real golf" I am slow getting out of the cart, can't see the ball well enough to hit it, let alone hit it much past 200 yards off the tee anymore. Think I will just stay here shoot my 5 over par, drink my coffee eat my snack, and curse at the meter.
Time for Fuzzy to go knock the Fuzzy off it. Can somebody hold my purse so I don't drop me lipstick?