When to publish the leader board?

I have another suggestion for future golf competitions, which I'm not sure
whether it's a good one, so I'm raising it on fwp.

Maybe the leader board should not be published until a couple of days into
the competition. The leader board provides a great incentive to strive to
improve one's position. But I noticed that this time there were a lot of
people in the 50's and low 60's very early, and I was worried that this
might prevent people playing at all if their first attempt was in the 80's
or whatever. Whereas if they'd already jumped in, I think they might
continue to play later.

I admit that there was a very high number of players this time, so maybe I'm
worrying unnecessarily. But what do other people think?

-- 
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01

• When to publish the leader board? by Stephen Turner