Did anybody catch this BBC article about a new format for competition golf?

I guess it's supposed to make it more appealing due to the competition being 
over more quickly as well as providing a greater "risk & reward" aspect to 
the game.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A35088762

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> Did anybody catch this BBC article about a new format for competition 
> golf?
>
> I guess it's supposed to make it more appealing due to the competition 
> being over more quickly as well as providing a greater "risk & reward" 
> aspect to the game.
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A35088762
>
> -- 
> Andy Neal
> Please remove the GREENCARD when you reply
>
I hope you are well, Andy.
The Spring Meeting was last weekend.
Ashford Manor 's course is looking the best I have ever seen it.


Thank you for drawing "PowerGolf" to our attention.
It will probably make popular TV viewing for the masses, but 3 hours is 
hardly speed golf.

How long will players take over their shot to the green when they have a 
choice of two holes instead of only one!!

After all 9 players have parred the 9th hole for the umpteenth time and Ken 
Brown has filled in while they go back to the tee yet again, showing us how 
not to repair a ball mark; Sam Torrance and Wayne Grady have run out of 
ideas on how to misinterpret the Rules of Golf and Peter Alliss has finished 
reminiscing about how in his day players used to play 18 holes, most viewers 
will have changed channels.

32 players in 8 groups of 4 so why the top 9 scorers play the last hole and 
not the top 8, 7, 6 or less?

Its all about money: money for Peter McEvoy; money for otherwise low-earning 
pros and perhaps another opportunity for the cheapest of TV advertising.
I wonder how much money RBS puts into the 6-nations to get in excess of 50 
hours of wall to wall TV advertising throughout Europe courtesy of the BBC?

I suppose it has nothing to do with Northwick Park (where Peter McEvoy has 
his office) becoming a nine hole course this year instead of just six.

I would have thought that as the BBC only likes to show tee shots and putts, 
a 9-hole par 3 course, where players could select for play just two clubs 
for the whole round would be even quicker. But then Ireland already has a 
pitch and putt championship.

Malcolm