Keighley Golf Club has secured a place in the golfing hall of fame after becoming the first in the world to attract over 100 players to compete in a PowerPlay Golf - the new golf format featuring two flags on each green - tournament.
An impressive 112 players took part in the competition at the leading West Yorkshire club, where the front nine holes of the par-69 winter course were Stableford format and the back nine featured PowerPlay Golf.
The overall tournament winner was the club's finance director David Norton (8 handicap) who scored 48 points. Kennedy Chadwick (14 handicap) picked up first place in the front nine with 22 points and Michael Cryer (22 handicap) scooped the PowerPlay Golf title with 31 points.
Launched in the UK to great acclaim last year and scheduled to roll out in 42 countries, PowerPlay Golf is described by many as golf's version of Twenty20 cricket. A round of PowerPlay Golf takes half the time of a normal 18-hole round.
The game was devised by Peter McEvoy, OBE, the former Walker Cup captain and Great Britain's most successful-ever amateur golfer.
Played over just nine holes, each green in a game of PowerPlay Golf has two flags, rather than one. Players on a PowerPlay' aim for the Black Flag, the harder of the two, with extra points as a reward for birdies or better.
The risk-and-reward' format heightens tension, and PowerPlay Golf has been widely praised by top pro golfers, golf writers, sports stars and celebrities alike.
All competitors are also able to enter their scores into PowerPlay Golf's unique world rankings system, which will enable PowerPlay golfers to see how well they rate against golfers in other countries.
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