Hey Alex, I am communicating with you, not my fellow "golfers". Here is what I had to say today to some other dued who was bitching:
gerryniswonger this is in response to your complaint but I will CC to WGT because I am as pissed as you are for different reasons.
This is an example of a failed attempt to correct a perceived wrong. Here's the wrong: many players would quit if the game wasn't going their way for whatever reason. mostly because they didn't want their score to drop. The remaining players in the game (not all) would *** that the guy was a quitter or loser. They would express anger, sometimes chasing down the "bad guy" in a series of contacts and insulting him. Apparently enough people complained about the "quiters" and WGT made it's attempt to correct the problem.
I hate this solution. It solves little or nothing except to show who the "quiters" are by percentage. MY percentage is an acceptable 93% which never seems to go up, no matter how many games I complete.
I always argued that this is a computer game and not the same as a game of golf on a real course. In a computer game of any kind, if you play poorly, you"crash" or you "get killed" and you get to start over. Not here. Quiting is verboten in so many player's mind's.
I don't get it but WGT suggests that if you play out, even your worst game, not to worry. I quote WGT here:
Your Average Score will be based on multiple best scores within ONLY your current Tier, not scores that you shot when in previous Tiers, which better reflects your current skill competing with the tee boxes and green speeds in your current Tier. Your Average Score will be based on ONLY your best scores, so completing a bad round will not negatively impact your Average Score or Tier. So be sure to finish all your rounds and gain the extra experience points, as a bad day won’t matter.
So what does "BEST SCORES mean? I had a bad day yesterday. 9 over on Olympic. My 66 average jumped to a 67.65. Within the same 24 hr period I scored a -4 and a -3 on nine holes at Kiawah. Those were my BEST SCORES today. Woopee my score dropped to 67.13. That does not make me happy. On the +9 game, I would have gladly "quit" but like a good WGT trooper I stayed in to the bitter end. I was even cheerful. In days past I would have told the other player that I was going to let him putt out, but I was not going to finish. Most players understood. Now if I do that, the whole game becomes a clusterf*#k. Again, this is because when WGT produced a solution for a problem (not in my eyes) they created a bigger problem.
What you gerry and the fellow up above you have expressed are written testaments to a failed solution.
I would like to get good enough to compete in tournaments but I am not even close in ability to those ladies and gents who constantly win the tournys. As hard as I try and as many hours as I put in, I will never get to be competitive. I have accepted that and will remain a tour master to the ends of my WGT life. I do not, however, want to be negatively branded if I quit a horrible game and I do not want to be responsible for screwing up the games of people who are having a good game.