You have to play 30 ranked games at Master level before your average stabilises.
Wherever you are at that point, your average will only go down and not up again.
To make it go down, you have to shoot under your current average.
All averages are calculated on a 72 par, so a 32 for example, translates as a 64.
If you shoot 4 under at StA, that will be 64, whereas if you do the same at one of the par 70 courses, this will equate to a 31, and therefore a 62 overall.
The lower your current average, the more under par you need to shoot to make your average go down. Where a 4 under would at one time have taken you down point 8, as you lower your average, this will then only take you down point 4.
There comes a time, as you approach 63 average (The break point where you get moved to Tour Master) when you will need to be shooting better than 4 under to make any downward movement at all.
Anyone with a high average will therefore experience larger drops in their average, for a simple two under than someone with a low average can expect.
As if you are not by this time completely disheartened, when you actually make the next tier, in your case Tour Master, your first ranked round will determine the average at which you begin the slide into legend shoes. This is because the average is re set, and that 63 you earlier achieved is now but a memory.
Ancient WGT folklore states that only 2% of brand new tour masters shoot 63 or under on their first ranked game. Everyone else shoots 84.
Multi accounters on the other hand, and sandbaggers, are completely immune from all of these rules and are also invisible to the administrators- but we all knew that anyway.
Lizzie xx