first let me start by saying I've done it and its been done to me. i can (with out much effort) think of many, many, different reasons to leave a VIDEO GAME and can tell you that many of them dont require explanations to people who you dint know. friends are made true but in the usual way multiple encounters, stimulating conversation, and time spent together - not a click of a mouse. when one of you in the community wrote nasty, insultive comments on my wall (didnt know i had a wall till this) because i left a VIDEO GAME... well that really put the whole thing in perspective for me, I'm mean everything my avg, my spending a grand on a new computer, 2 different sets of clubs, a different avatar it made me realize the other things that were being neglected in my life. i used to enjoy playing this game, the opportunity to meet people from all over, the conversations, but the things that were wrote on my wall and the resulting amount of you who then quit on games with me because of it... really...focused me. as i read over the threads (2) on this topic it focused me even more...its a VIDEO GAME, i paid for this computer to entertain ME! all this back bitting and gossip shames me as a man! it embarrasses me that people will sit...where ever... and worry so much about how they can get "one up" on some one else in a VIDEO GAME... free balls, a little humiliation for lesser experienced players,what ever they can get. no, people shouldn't "cheat" and pad their avg's but they shouldn't cut you off in traffic, take cuts in front of you in line, or any other of the trespasses that occur in every day life but do you go burn crosses in their yards? chase them down and paint nasty stuff all over their car? apperently...ya do if your a WGT member. another thing I'll get up and walk out of a movie if it sux... bet 99.9999999% of you do too...so...i'd like to say get some perspective, for all the questions put against my Honor over quitting a VIDEO GAME in the middle i question the community's morals and values and objectives. not one person put forth a suggestion on improving my game, understanding the rules, terms, but you were right there to question my honesty and morality and pass judgment over a decision to leave in the middle of a VIDEO GAME...WOW!...again...WOW! cant help but notice that most of you complaining about this issue are well masters and apparently you get something out of playing lesser experienced players... or you wouldn't do it. get a life!