I have to laugh a bit to myself seeing all the suggestions of the game plays too easy the greens are not as McCord stated that Augusta's were not mowed but instead bikini waxed(which of course got him banned from ever doing another Masters) the wind doesn't blow hard enough and unless there are is an arc floating down the fairways then it isn't raining hard enough. I think the "average golfer" kind of gets forgotten about.
Guys perhaps start a tour called the sadist tour. Have courses just made for the tour,set greens not at 15 but 25 replace grass on the fairways with concrete just to make sure they are hard enough. Bunkers not a measly couple feet deep but 10 ft minimum oh and quicksand of course instead of real sand. Oh and you have to use the opposite hand for either clicking or mouse swing.
All right a bit of sarcasm here but if all the suggestions of "extreme golfing" were implemented to the "average tournament" then I think the amount that would participate would be very minimal. Honestly most of us hackers are not out to play a 6 hour foursome because each player has a stroke just from all the stress of trying to make a 3 foot putt that if missed will end up back at the tee.
My biggest fear is that the game becomes so extreme that the only ones left will be a handful of like minded players. Sure I get some want the challenge of the toughest of the toughest conditions and like I said go for it by setting up a tour just for those that like that sort of thing. Us "noobs" as someone so kindly referred to those that are not into such harsh conditions will some how struggle along playing "average golf"
Heck why not set up a country club just for your settings that way you won't have to suffer mingling with "us commoners"
Just make sure your health premiums are paid up to date so that ambulance you will need on stand by for each tournament will not refuse to pick you up.