Frosty
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The shotgun start makes the coverage a total mess - you have no idea what hole is where or who has what remaining in their round and there is no flow at all as to how the course plays. It's annoying in general for round 1, but when it's the final round and the scores are jumbled it's going to be real dumb. Guys will need a birdie or whatever to win but some will be on a 150 yard par 3 and others on a 500 yard par 5. Since it's simultaneous nobody will know what putts matter or where they stand. No drama of a final group walking up the 18th - some rando on the 5th hole will chip in and by like oh I won all while 10 fans applaud.
Yeah I've been thinking about this too. The little bit of the broadcast I saw the announcers were trying to play up that the leaders will start on hole 1 on Saturday, but that doesn't at all address the issue that you outlined.
I will say that the team format is something that could end up being a good feature since the scores from guys clearly out of the individual comp still matter, but the shotgun start will still make this a mess. A quick cut with no context to James Piot 4 jacking it around the green to lose the team comp doesn't really work.