Sorry to interrupt the thread, but here is an on-topic post:
The email was not false advertising since it said right there in the email that you had to buy $20 in credits to get the free club.
What is false advertising, though, is the earnings leaderboard displayed on the wgt.com home page. It gives new visitors to the site the impression that dozens of people have actually made enough money on this site to do stuff like buy the clubs in the "Elite Collection" of the pro shop. That is completely false. Nobody, to my knowledge, has ever bought a set of IRL golf clubs from the pro shop. The only thing that I am aware of that ever been bought out of the pro shop was the $150 gift certificate, and even that only a handful of times. Iconian got one, maybe two. I would guess that yoban has also received one or two. You have to have at least $3,000-$4,000 in earnings in order to buy one, so if you look at the career earnings list, there are only about 25 people that fit that description, and probably half of them got their earnings in big tournament prizes, not a bunch of RGs. At least $200,000 has gone into RG entry fees (excluding, here, the recycled credits won by players in previous RGs or the free credits awarded for tier-advancement, which I'll say accounts for 50% of RG entry fees,) and only about $1,000-worth of gift certificates has come out. In my opinion, that is indeed false advertising. The word "scam" is thrown around far too loosely here on the forums, mostly by new users, and usually people are wrong about what they are calling a scam, but the false impression that the home page's earnings leaderboard gives is not even close to the truth, and that could very well be called a scam.
My on-topic $0.02.