I played before reading your post unfortunately.
Just posted this to our Club Discord Chat room:
Caution all !! Please let me know if this happens to you also !
1) I did not get the coins for the win at Chelsea.
2) While sponsored WGT awarded Zero (0) boxes.
3) It was nice to finish a hole After one opponent forfeited.
4) It was not nice to have to wait another 2 minutes to watch the opponent hole the ball with a double bogey after my 13 foot birdie...
This is going to diminish the total number of games you can play within the 30 minute sponsorship period... Plus you now have to watch someone who may be trying to make you wait to win the coin game. This may be the way that players are trying to get YOU to Forfeit !
ALSO I had to close out the windows icon as it was as you said "stuck in a loop"
you can not move on without closing out the game.
AND BY THE WAY you are not able to chat. I waited after the last "sponsored" game and the clock went to ZERO and then Went back to 4:45 minutes !