Hello,
The question was asked, otherwise I wouldn't have a specific answer... How could it possibly matter to me? But since posed, here is that answer.
In every other way, except those I'm going to bullet, this "thing" is fine by me...
1. I do not like, nor approve of, this growing idea that the "fans are part of the action" - and certainly not in this hyper-extreme manner. At all sorts of sporting events, this is ever more the case... and its bad. I want to see the performers at their maximum, not what a yahoo can do to influence or register with the outcome.
2. This is different than the experience of storming the court or running out onto the field...most of those times, the game is over...go nuts then.
3. I wish this "Red Hour" for golf would do more to help excise the drunken zeal at other events, but it doesn't and this set-up just gives that little bit more license for those fans at other tour events to try and be a determining factor in the action....more "You Da' Mans" "BaBa Booeys" and so forth...
4. This endorses a mob mentality that isn't right for viewing individual sport...wherein the competitors are not vying for the same ball and concentration is fundamental act of performing to one's best.
5. I hate that it advances the idea that, "whatever makes more money must be good"
I know Golf has been plagued by these fan incursions at many times throughout its history, but this is one of the first venues where it is actively encouraged by the tournament itself. Dan Hicks was fed the line..."the gladiatorial arena" and it's so ironic that we don't reflect on that beyond the pablum prose of it.
Alas, I really don't care...I'm never going there...and any full-on impacts to the golf I watch will probably not be felt until my eyes are closed...yet it's why I've got so much material for my 2029 book..."Why $ports $tink"
cheers
vk