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LONDON – Powerplay Golf is gift a rattling older climb a pair of newborn twists.

Hoping to modify the grappling of a climb ofttimes considered to be decorous and boring, organizers of the three-event program are looking to bring in newborn fans by substance a faster pace and more excitement with digit pins per naif and only nine holes in a round.

"Stand by for something rattling special," Scotland's Colin Montgomerie said in a statement Wednesday. "Golf around the world is about to discover a newborn dimension."

Montgomerie will be joined by U.S. Open endorse Graeme McDowell in a 12-player earth that also includes past earth winners metropolis Player, Evangelist Daly and Ian Woosnam in a PowerPlay competition in May at European Manor.

In PowerPlay Golf, players crapper reason different saucer totals depending on which of the digit cups they go for on apiece green. The mettlesome is scored using a nine-hole "variation on golf's Stableford points scoring system," PowerPlay Golf said on its website.

Each contestant will get restricted opportunities to putt to the black flag, which would be settled in a more difficult conception of the green. If a contestant makes a birdie into that hole, more points are awarded.

On the test hole, every players crapper go for the black flag, where organizers said a "birdie wins points galore, and possibly the competition ... but failure to attain par spells disaster."

Player, a nine-time earth winner, described the game's attractiveness by thinking backwards to his days at the Masters, a competition he won three times.

"You are standing in the middle of the 18th fairway at metropolis National equal for the lead. What do you do? Do you go for the pin? If you it hit it right you attain birdie and win. If you don't, you attain bogie and lose," Player said. "Risk versus reward — one of the toughest decisions a endorse has to make."

The circumstance at European Manor in Cambria on May 30 is the speech competition in the series, and the list of participants is probable to draw fans of the tralatitious mettlesome as as substantially as the newer version. The earth also includes Paul Casey, Ian Poulter, Paula Creamer and Helen Alfredsson.

The mettlesome is meant to "increase golf's attractiveness to a wider fair TV audience," PowerPlay Golf said. The succeeder of the competition at European Manor will obtain $163,000.

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