"2-Hour Round" Concept to be tested at Deer Run Golf Club

[Brent Hutto]

Why is this "test" being called a success? Not a single group finished on time

Exactly. They took volunteers who wanted to be part of a fast-play experiment, they cleared out the entire course ahead of them and they did not meat the rather modest "fast play" target time. WTF? If that's a success then what would they deem a failure.

The whole thing's an attention-seeking stunt akin to the 15" hole crap and sack races during the 7th inning stretch at minor-league ballparks.

[Garland Bayley]

This is a great program if it gets the rake and runners off early and on time.  Gotta love finally having proof that lower scores equals lower times.

No proof was ever necessary. Everyone knows that hitting more shots takes more time than hitting fewer shots. However, in 4 1/2 hour rounds, it is personal habits that dominates the time the round takes, not the strokes taken. These fast rounds effectively weed out the people with slow personal habits before the round even starts.