Golf - Love it or hate it?

[BrumJim]

Please expand. I heard or read half of something that said they were good for wildlife but it could have been biased as I can't remember who was saying it.

My Uncle, believe it or not, is seriously on the case. Even published a book about it. Has a great time as consultant for a number of courses - not much gets done after lunch.

Me? Forget Mark Twain, the two best quotes I have ever heard about golf are:
1) Less a sport, more a career move.
2) Sounds like a very expensive way of taking a walk.

Bought my previous car on the grounds that it was tested on a TV program (5th Gear, IIRC) against a Peugeot 406 and a BMW Coupé by a bunch of people from a local golf club and it came bottom. Best recommendation ever.

Hate it, in case you hadn't guessed.

 

[oliglynn]

I mean..look at the silly clothes they wear and what about all that money they spend on shiny new kit all the time oh and let's not forget about those weirdos getting up at all hours and in all weathers to have a round. Bloody weirdos if you ask me.

lol - weirdos indeed!! Well at least we get something out of it such as fitness, seeing new places, replacing a car journey, thrilling descents etc. Compared to wasting most of a day putting a tiny ball in a tiny hole I think cycling's onto a winner here!

 

[endoman]

There's a huge variety of people in golf clubs. I've played at the poshest both here and abroad, and home course is where Westwood plays, very very down to earth and full of decent people, one or two cocks of course, but aren't there everywhere?

Played with some decent players as well, they are decent lads, I would quite fancy a night out with the boys from ISM, Westy, Clarke, Flintoff etc. Hope to maybe get a couple of them on a charity bike ride I'm doing in October for a cricketing mate.

Can't abide those who do it purely for the "status" and are full of themselves, you work them out before the end of the first hole, and only play with them once.

 

[Hacienda71]

Good game. I can't justify the time or the monetary spend at the moment so tend to play at municipals or on charity days. I hope that when I retire I will be fit enough to play a lot more and cycle a lot more.
I would have thought that some of the courses have actually preserved areas of land that would otherwise have been developed for housing. Saw my first woodpecker the other day while playing a round at a local course. You do see lots of wildlife while playing.

 

[asterix]

When are we likely to see a golfer knocked into a barbed wire fence by a golf buggy? Or even propel their golf ball 200 km over a 2000m mountain? Wimps, the lot of them!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I I played a lot of golf when I lived in the UK and must admit a thoroughly enjoyed the experience. It's not unlike cycling in that if you don't partake of the sport it's not so interesting to watch on TV or as a spectator. However hate is a very strong word and should not be applied to any sport that does no harm to anyone.

Someone's hacked into Keith's account, this couldn't possibly be written by him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Fnaar]

This from Danny Bent on facebook:

You know when you were a baby and your mum gave you a shape (circle, triangle, square) and you had to try and get it through the correct shaped hole?

If you take away the triangle and the square shapes you have…. golf.

It’d better be off the big screen when tdf starts or I’m kicking off!!!

 

[swee'pea99]

I think it's great. Almost as good as watching paint dry.

 

[4F]

Not bothered by it, may watch the last few holes of a Ryder Cup if it is close but that is as far as it goes.

 

[Dayvo]

all the greenkeepers I've known are sound people (three of them).

I'm sure I could do something about that!

 

[Dayvo]

I don't love it, but I don't hate it either.

I play golf regularly (I'm a greenkeeper, for those of you who don't know yet) but I don't consider myself a golfer, although I'm fairly decent.

I watch golf on TV the same way I occasionally watch the snooker, but (sad bastard that I am) I like to look at the cutting patterns on the greens/fairways!

Anyway, I'd rather go for a four-hour ride than play golf for four hours.

 

[perplexed]

Golf has to be possibly the most tedious thing on the telly. I can't see how it can qualify as a sport when they have to wear jumpers and have a little servant to carry their bags of sticks!

A few of them look like they'd have trouble getting up the stairs without the aid of a stannah...


Crazy golf would be much more entertaining!

 

[XmisterIS]

Environmental disaster areas.

I'm with you on that one, although others on here may have other evidence.

Has far as I can see it, a golf course replaces natural, publicly accessible biodiversity with sterile monoculture that only a privileged few may enjoy, provided they turn up in a Range Rover Sport wearing chavcouture fashion.

* I do believe I've invented a new word there with my portmanteau of "chav" and "haute couture". You know what I mean - threads that cost the earth but look decidedly Delboy Trotter.

 

[darth vadar]

Why do golfers wear two pairs of socks.

In case they get a hole in one.

 

[swee'pea99]

The other thing about golf courses, of course, is that they demand humungous amounts of fresh water, especially when they're in the nice hot places where the kind of people who can afford to spend their time playing gold like to hang out. In the Gulf, eg, they're not only environmentally disastrous, but very often ruinous to the agricultural needs of local people.