No, it's OK Genorb, I read Richard's comment last night on my phone, but didn't get the chance to reply. I understood what he meant, as I too have read a thread where Richard was anti meter aids in the form of a percentage scale.
First up, thanks for the congrats Richard. To answer your question, I know you disagree with them, but yes I use a guide with 10% increments on it. So basically a home-made putterpal. For the majority of shots around full it doesn't come into play that much, but it mostly helps me on the greens. Since WGT are offering the same thing, I personally don't have any qualms using it and I'm sure many other players feel the same - a quick search on the forums shows how many people are using aids of some sort.
Completely agree that this award is much easier now than it used to be with all the equipment upgrades etc. Loads of players now are capable of doing it with that bit of luck or whatever. Clearly though it's still very rare at the moment (there might be others out there) and the Eagle stopping the run is a bit of a weird situation (WGT said they were looking into a couple of years back), that hasn't been sorted. If Eagles were to count, they'd definately be a fair few others to add to the list.
Genorb, out of curiosity, were you not tempted to intentionally miss the Eagle Putt? I guess it's simply not in your nature to miss a putt, but having won so many tournaments and shot loads of Eagles already, it must have been on your mind?! I know when I did mine, after #13 I really knew it was on, then #14 I had a 40ft Eagle putt. I did try and hole it, but I was glad when it missed (strange situation), then on approach to #18 the ball literally spun around the cup, missing Eagle by 1/2 a cup's width (I was so worried it would drop!). Rowlets (who is in my CC and did it in a 1000C RG off the tips at KI - great achievement!) said a similar thing happened to him on #16 when he was really close to holing his Eagle flop. It's a bit of a odd one, as clearly an Eagle shot isn't one you should intentionally miss or hope not to make, and of course Genorb's round as an example being a shot lower than 18 birdies, deserves the Award.