NBC has come up with a new and better format for the ADT Skills Challenge. It's more interesting to me, anyway, than watching celebrity hacks. And at the very least, you have to give NBC double-bonus points for originality. This year, players will team up with their caddies and play for equal shares-yes, equal shares-of an $820,000 purse. The teams are Mike "Fluff" Cowan and his former long-time PGA Tour boss, Peter Jacobsen; Fred Couples and his perennial caddie, Joe LaCava; U.S. Open runner-up Rocco Mediate and his caddie from Torrey Pines, Matt Achatz; and Greg Norman and his occasional caddie and permanent son, Gregory Norman. Phil Mickelson and his caddie, Jim (Bones) MacKay, were invited but Mickelson was playing overseas and unavailable. The competition will be held Monday at Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort in Florida and edited into a pair of two-hour shows that NBC will televise during the peak of the golf season (insert your bemused laughter here), Dec. 27-28.

The "Date" sounds pretty neat !!!!

I think the idea is pretty neat, but seems a little big breakish

I caught the very end of the coverage on TGC. It looked actually interesting. It will be interesting to see how they edit it for broadcast later.

Later,

The results are out

It does look interesting,,, the "Editing" would be fun to watch !!!!