Will golf become the new cycling?

[BSRU]

Hitting a ball round a field with a stick, what a waste of time ......

Still cannot understand why it is called a sport

 

[Archie_tect]

Agreed, but watching lots of grown men pootling along riding bikes for three hours isn't exactly exciting is it?

Neither is watching grown men driving the same cars round and round and round and round a track for over an hour...

 

[BSRU]

Agreed, but watching lots of grown men pootling along riding bikes for three hours isn't exactly exciting is it?

Watching the last hour on mountain stages is.

Neither is watching grown men driving the same cars round and round and round and round a track for over an hour...

Good way of getting to sleep, watch the start, fall asleep then wake up to watch the end.

 

[BSRU]

Now, darts......there's a real man's sport. Stupid tops and huge beer bellies - lots of cyclists look like that round here.

I'd almost susbcribe to Sky Sports for darts, almost

 

[tyred]

I can't spend hours in the garage rescuing rusty bikes golf clubs dredged out of the river or spend hours calculating the correct chainring/sprocket size for a Sturmey hub 5 Iron so I'll stick to cycling. More fun.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Golf on bikes?

 

[AndyRM]

There's been loads of British winners of the Open (most of them Scottish), not sure that one more is going to kick-start interest in the game.

Golf is one of those games that I enjoy playing (badly) but find utterly tedious to watch on TV, although I do love Peter Alliss' commentary. It's alright to watch live too.

 

[Crackle]

McIlroy won a million the other day. Top golfers earn about 10 million a year, even those down the list earn a reasonable living with a few sticks. I discovered I can hurl the stick further than I can hit the ball.

 

[AndyRM]

McIlroy won a million the other day. Top golfers earn about 10 million a year, even those down the list earn a reasonable living with a few sticks. I discovered I can hurl the stick further than I can hit the ball.

McIlroy will get over £10m a year just for swinging Nike sticks and wearing their clothes...!

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Every sport is boring if it doesn't appeal to you and exciting if it does. I can never understand why people knock a sport just because they don't like it, I can't stand cricket or rugby but I appreciate the skill and dedication of those who reach the top level and I would never knock anyone for being interested in them. Even without a subscription package there are about thirty TV channels so no one is forced to watch what they don't want to watch.

 

[Crackle]

It shows why the licence fee is well worth the money. Uninterrupted coverage from start to finish without an ad break every five minutes, top class commentary and analysis and no stupid rap music or whatever accompanying the replays. You may not like golf but it is a very tough competitive sport.

I think I'd have to part with you on that bit. I dislike, Aliss is it? Someone with a bit of zipp about them would be far better and more insightful about the golfers rather than just the course.

 

[John the Monkey]

You may not like golf

To quote Michael Legge,

"There's only one thing better than a round of golf.

And that's EVERYTHING."

I don't see the appeal, although all the people I've known who play have been quite charming, so I can't bring myself to dislike golf completely.

 

[John the Monkey]

I think I'd have to part with you on that bit. I dislike, Aliss is it? Someone with a bit of zipp about them would be far better and more insightful about the golfers rather than just the course.

Ah, if only Eddie Waring were still about. Stick some obstacles (tiny windmills &c) on the course too, like what they have in proper golf.

 

[Dan B]

Every sport is boring if it doesn't appeal to you and exciting if it does. I can never understand why people knock a sport just because they don't like it

I don't like cricket or rugby either, but they do both involve significant physical exertion, speed, and/or endurance, and you'd be on shaky ground trying to claim either were not really sport. Golf? It has little more claim to the title than open air darts

 

[Blue]

McIlroy will get over £10m a year just for swinging Nike sticks and wearing their clothes...!

Item on the BBC NI news tonight showed him wearing a Nike baseball cap when sitting down to dinner with his family!