Did You Watch Altered Course?

Monday night was the debut of GC's new golf competition show called Altered Course. If you didn't watch it, you missed something very interesting...

I'd describe the display as extreme group golf -- this is, golfing performed on a "route" that includes the type of terrain that most golfers try and avoid -- and the 2-player groups are timed, with consequences dealt out if a group takes too lengthy. That method players are walking among shots, and doing it over a few pretty tough terrain. Even the host, Kristen Kenney, has to run all through the display to hold up with the teams!

The "hole" for the first episode changed into a par-four. It began on the tee of the primary hollow and finished at the green of the second one hole. There became a a hundred-foot drop from the tee to the golf green, and groups performed trade shot (both teammates have been allowed to hit a tee shot to attempt to get one in play). They needed to get a ball inner a predetermined checkpoint area, irrespective of what number of strokes it took, then play a blind shot over a upward push with some timber on it to a green with a bunker at the left and a pond on the proper.

There are eight teams and Monday's episode "seeded" them according to the number of strokes and time they took playing the first hole, with ties broken by physical competitions determined by a skills challenge. How do they do that, you ask? Well, one teammate tried to hit a ball as close to a specific distance as possible -- it had to go at least that far but they tried to get as close to that distance as possible. (Failing to reach that distance resulted in automatically being the low seed.) After each team had done so -- and yes, the balls went different distances for each team -- the other teammates had to run to the ball, pick it up and run back. Ties were broken by order of finish.

The crew pictured above, Shepherd Archie and Wesley Yates, are "The Georgia Boys" and they may be the top seed after being the only crew to attain 5 at the hole.

I assume this display has the potential to be a actual hit. It's a clearly exciting combo of in shape play and extreme sports, and it is worth watching at the least as soon as to peer if you want it.

You can find the Altered Course info page on golfchannel.com at this link.