For those of you who play real golf, do you remember the last time you hit what you thought was a perfectly executed shot, only to find it came up 15yds short. Have you never watched a pro when they believed they hit it absolutely perfect only for it to be nowhere near the hole, and he/she and the caddy look at each other in bewilderment. He/she hit it perfectly, it should have been in the hole, or at least no more than 3in away.
But then we all realise that is why we play golf, or any sport for that matter. And it is also true in other aspects of everyday life too. For those who say the game is inconsistent, yes of course it is inconsistent, it's designed that way, it's called deviation, but you already know that. What you have to do it try to minimise or make the best use of that deviation. That comes with skill, which many here believe they have, but are far from it. It's not just about hitting the ding, it's about allowing for the wind, allowing for the break on the greens, allowing for hitting out of rough, out of bunkers, which incidentally are different on different courses... just like in real golf!!! But most of all, you need the skill of 'local knowledge'. The dots on the green say one thing, but the putt does something completely different. Have you never played real golf, hit a putt, and then said "that should have broke" as the ball ran by the hole??? Or say "that shouldn't have done that"... but it did!!! And did you learn from it next time? I have been a qualified coach in 2 sports and played many others; one thing I try to teach others is that before you can win you have to learn to lose. By that I mean you need to understand why you lose so that you can change it next time. You may not necessarily win next time either, but by taking this approach you will get better each time, and maybe one day... who knows!
A couple of weeks ago I played a competition. On the front 9 I scored 23 stableford points having played to 1 over gross (i.e. +1 if playing off scratch for those who don't understand). On the back 9 I scored a measly 13 points having played those 9 holes to 11 over (+11). It had gone cold, dark cloud came over, it started raining, my knee started hurting pretty badly, the greens were much slower than the front 9, the yardages were all wrong, etc, etc. I lost the competition by 1 point. I moaned at the end, of course I did. But at the end of the day I simply didn't take into consideration the big changes and so didn't compensate enough for everything.
Lizzie is totally right, nothing in life is perfect, but rather than constantly complaining about it, we should take a moment to ask ourselves "how can I do that better?". Of course it's not always our fault and we should complain, but it's not always the other person's fault either.
Like I said, there are many here who complain about the game, a few of whom I have played with. And to those I say, you don't know as much as you think you know. I have tried to teach a few some things, but I could see at the time that it was falling upon deaf ears as they simply continued doing what they always had been and always making the same mistakes. Priestess, one of WGT's top players, took time to learn everything about this game. But if you ask her if she knows everything I'm sure the answer would be "no". There were times, not many admittedly, when we played together when she would ask me what shot I had played. She didn't ignore it because I wasn't as good as her, but she took that information, stored it and used it next time. And I'm sure the same to be true of all the top players - none of them will say they know everything.
Ren - with regards to your putting, having had a game with you once and found huge holes in that part of your game for which I tried to give some advice, I would say that you need to rethink why you are missing 2.5ft putts when hitting them 3.5ft and they are coming up short. But one thing I am sure of is that's it's not WGT's fault.
To sum up, by all means bring to WGT's attention if you believe something is wrong, but then work out what you can change to do better in that situation.