Brent,
Altogether, now...let's spell 'R-I-G-I-D'.
Your statement makes perfect sense for people who:
Brush their teeth for exactly two minutes...
Drive to work by the same route every day...
Wear white shoes only in the spring and summer...
Ever play wiffle baseball?
Ever play a round of golf with only three clubs, just for the heck of it?
Then, you might understand the concept behind these One Man Scrambles.
It's called 'VARIETY'.
This does not portend the demise of civilization. It's just an adaptation of the game played by golfers on a golf course. In practice, it's just lke any other scramble except that you're playing with yourself.
In this format, that's okay.
You won't get pimples.
With apologies to Huck and other esteemed colleagues, I've got to put on my Melvyn Morrow hat here for a moment...
I don't care how much fun you guys had. It's not golf, the fact that it's growing in popularity is a bad thing and I see it as a continuing enroachment of supposed "improvements" that only serve to bastardize the game and bring more manifestly non-golfing distractions onto the course. What an awful trend.
And now my John Kavenaugh hat...
Sure, it's more fun than golf. Screwing your girlfriend is more fun than golf too but I don't want to see some paunchy, Viagra-popping middle-aged doofus doing it on the putting green when I'm trying to play a round of golf.