On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Piers Cawley wrote: > So, I was thinking about how to make the event more entertaining for > the spectators and it occurred to me that, in a 'real' golf game they > don't just watch the leader board, they watch the holes being played. > > So, how about having some way of letting spectators see the > entries. It would (of course) require some sort of honour system; at > the very least disbarring any spectator who has seen a solution from > entering that hole, but I think it would definitely make for better > watching. Certainly judging by some of the comments of the judges, > seeing the solutions come in has proved very entertaining. >
FWIW, I'm sure this would be very entertaining, but I really don't see how it could work. The temptation for players to peek would be too strong. (Of course, in real golf, one only gets a slight advantage from seeing one's opponents play a hole: in Perl golf, it's everything.) -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
