I have to ask -- what's up with all the WDs

[Tim]

- Why sign up if you don't plan on playing?
- What's causing you not to play and/or finish your rounds.
- Had close to 100 WDs with like 40 in the WEBA flight alone.
- As we continue to grow and tournaments start filling up - we will get extra strict on this.

Thoughts?

[Rhaegar99]

Agreed - a handful you can rationalize but there were a LOT for this tourney

[foolinjection]

Talking about the Web.com Tours, I'm guessing people registered and then after playing the course this week in practice decided not to participate. Either that or DID play 2 rounds but didn't submit the scores.

Like some of the slopes of the greens were really killer... I almost spat the dummy out the pram with that course but stuck with it in the interest of fair play and competition. I wouldn't get to pick the course on a real golf tour so you just have to deal, play the course as it comes, take your lumps if need be and roll on to the next week.

[billybudd0623]

I too, think that some Webbers were imtimidated by Lakeview.

[stormjr]

I'll be honest, I didn't shoot my rounds in WEBC for these reasons:

1) I used to be on the Champ tour which did not have cuts and for some reason had it in my head that WebC was the same.
2) Life got in the way this week, was planning on shooting my rounds this evening.
3) Destiny.

I'm signed up for the upcoming event and will get those in for sure.

[corkyboy]

I agree with Andy i missed the cut found the course tough as hell couple of triple bogies on my second round if i had not done that would have made the cut. Question Tim how does not playing and missing cut effect WGR if there is no difference then maybe players who quit after practice rounds should lose ranking positions ? or is this just to stern.

[gregoire77]

I thought we had until late this evening to finish the first two rounds? I've been busy this week and usually have most of the rounds done by mid week but haven't got the chance to this time around. Pretty disappointed in the WD I just noticed. First tourney I've missed since Q School and I have to miss the 16th to 22nd tourney as I'll be in the Dominican Republic from 16th to 24th

[NCFCRulz]

Mar 6, 2015 13:20:52 GMT -5 gregoire77 said:

I thought we had until late this evening to finish the first two rounds? I've been busy this week and usually have most of the rounds done by mid week but haven't got the chance to this time around. Pretty disappointed in the WD I just noticed. First tourney I've missed since Q School and I have to miss the 16th to 22nd tourney as I'll be in the Dominican Republic from 16th to 24th

deadline was brought forward 24hrs a few weeks ago! It was pretty well advertised on site and emails

[Deleted]

Ello' Mates,

This thread seemed to be the perfect place for me to add this nugget of wisdom that was crossing my mind this morning. We don't have to register for every single event. I know it's a golf video game so it is much easier to get say 4 tee times in before a single day is out but it's good to remember that the pro's don't play every tournament on the schedule. They do things like take some time off and practice or skip an event because they don't like something about the venue or even for personal reasons. So don't just register to register, check the course out with some practice rounds and if the coming week looks to be too hectic or you do not like the venue then don't register. Take a week off or maybe two. Take that time to play some different course, maybe post a review or two from the course data base.

I think the way TGCT has it set up rules wise is good. Maybe make it penalize WD's after only 3 events (you could always monitor special circumstances on a case by case basis) and go on a P.R. campaign with some of the above suggested practices. 

[lessangster]

I wasn't particularly keen on the course because of some of the slopes on the greens but I played all my four rounds, good and bad. I have just made the cut by about 3 shots at -4 and my last two rounds were not brilliant but ok. I think if you've registered to play you should take the rough with the smooth and compete, you never know you might catch a few breaks and put 4 reasonable rounds in.

[fuzion]

I agree. I think 3 consecutive DQs/WDs should result in the loss of your tour card. After 2 weeks of WDs, if you don't know whether you can make the next event, you should sit it out.

[bruce]

I always play the course a week in advance, If nothing better than to get some practice in. But also to see waht the course looks like and above all plays well on my PS4.
 You went to all the trouble of earning the card in the first place, so why not use it and take advantage of it?
  I only play the first two rounds on either a Sunday or on Monday, I haven't been making a lot of the cuts, but its pretty interesting to watch the leaderboard and see If I did.

[BMann1976]

I think has to do with the course selection. Regardless of whether you think the courses are fine, there are a lot that don't. I think all of the Tours should be getting good, quality courses. There are enough of them now.

[Deleted]

Mar 6, 2015 14:41:57 GMT -5 BMann1976 said:

I think has to do with the course selection. Regardless of whether you think the courses are fine, there are a lot that don't. I think all of the Tours should be getting good, quality courses. There are enough of them now.

I agree,

Course selection is subjective so the best way to combat that is this:

The more we the community rate and review our TGCT database of courses the better and more objective the actual selection for tours by TGCT will become. 

-Mike

[dmackc]

I'm in agreement with the 3 consecutive DQs/WDs and you lose your tour card. Having to go through Q-School again? That would make me think twice!