LONDON - European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley plans to introduce six-hole tournaments complete with blaring music in a bid to shake up golf's staid image. However, Pelley's announcement that six-hole sprint formats could be included on the European Tour schedule from 2017 is a significant leap. "If you're not prepared to change, if you're not prepared to be innovative, if you're not prepared to take chances, then I do believe that the sports that aren't will fall behind." "So you have to change, people's time is so precious that golf -- I think every golf course being built needs to be six holes, six holes, six holes -- so that people can go at the beginning before they go to work." "Golf and tennis has to be a little more open to letting the youth actually participate," the Canadian told BBC Radio Five on Sunday.

Source: Bangkok Post July 24, 2016 10:52 UTC