ISPS HANDA World Super 6 brings a format unlike any other

It is one of the many paradoxes of golf that whilst amateurs enjoy playing the game in a seemingly endless variety of formats, professionals find themselves stuck playing stroke play just about every week.

In a further layer of contradiction, when a tournament does bite the bullet and tinker with the formula, patience is invariably thin. It's as if the family has spent all year dropping hints that they're sick of turkey at Christmas -- and then collectively turn up their noses when mum roasts a goose.

On the European Tour, this has manifested itself in cries for more team events ("something like the Ryder Cup") before the reality of the Seve Trophy prompted disappointed mutterings of how it…