Golf- Love it or Hate it

[JCMach1]

Poll question: Golf- Love it or Hate it

I'm with Twain... a bad use for a good lawn.

Even worse think of the ecological damage caused by courses... i.e. the water, the fertilizer, etc.

[Champ]

1. It's fun to play

But I'd rather have bamboo sticks shoved up my finger nails then spending an afternoon or evening watching golf.

[Skittles]

2. I can feel my hair growing if I watch golf

unbelievably boring

[Nile]

3. Awwww cumon, it's not that bad...

is it?

[Skittles]

8. yes, it is that boring

the game is boring and the players are boring too

[Brahma Bull]

4. I hate golf.

It's evil.

I'll play mini golf, though. That's always fun. :)

[I thought so.]

5. It's a lot like darts in the bar.

A skill. Not a sport. However, Its so important to power politics and business that it can't be ignored. They have their stars and fantasize.
The bad karma is that many want their lawns to look like the course.
That's why there is a "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. Scott's Turfbuilder Plus Two.
They pander to our fantasies and we buy.

[Champ]

6. Good points

But would you watch the "World Series of Darts"? :7

[I thought so.]

11. I confess,

When my TV worked I watched until I found out it was the only thing even better than NASCAR. Sunday sucks all day on broadcast TV.

[Awsi Dooger]

9. Exactly right, other than laughably ignorant

Why do I even bother? That same braindead argument pops up here seemingly every other week. People who tried golf once and skulled every shot spend a lifetime denying its legitimacy, therefore excusing their runaway incompetence.

You might notice a golf ball is struck, not thrown. That dart analogy is beyond idoicy. The connection between two hands and the golf club and everything that can go wrong during the lengthy swing is what makes the sport so maddening and special.

There are no environmental influences in darts, other than gravity. A top notch golfer immediately has to evaluate a dozen or more outdoor variables on every swing.

Golf features 14 clubs, each with vastly different playing characteritcs. While a dart will fly nothing but eerily straight, a skilled golfer has to learn minute stance and swing changes to make the ball cut high and soft or with a hard running draw, etc.

[Champ]

10. Those are some really good points

I always enjoy reading your posts, I'm an off and on insomniac so I see come in every now and then in the early mornings posting your opinions in sports threads and they are really good. You always make excellent, well written posts.

on edit: I know I said good point in the other post that post you made really changed my opinion of golf. I always thought of it as some sport where you try walk around and try to hit a 1 1/2 inch ball into a small hole in a 400 yard golf course. But when you really think about it, it's a very complex sport to master and the best ones in the world were born with a putter in their hand.

[Awsi Dooger]

13. Thank you, but I need to tone down my rhetoric

I post only in the wee hours while simultaneously working on my job, excruciatingly dull Excel monotony for Las Vegas sportsbooks. I get pissed off when work is taking hours longer than planned, and sometimes needlessly take that out on DUers, using words I later regret, especially in the Lounge.

I completely understand the boring aspect of televised golf, especially if someone does not play or care who wins. But the threads/posts that irritate me are the ones that question the variety of required skills, and completely ignore the extreme mental challenges of the sport.

[I thought so.]

12. Begging your pardon.

I have stepped on your tail. Please forgive me.

[Awsi Dooger]

7. Love golf, just hate my idiotic bet on Tiger at 5/1

I knew his swing was still flawed but jumped on the so-called value wager. At least Els clubbed Davis Love and all my anti-Adam Scott matchups won.

I watch four days per week all year other than my own vacation. Golf is fascinating if you know the sport and use the pros to aid your own game, as I do. My sand play has improved dramatically this year via watching the alignment and rhythm of the top bunker players.

On the full swing, I watch the hands at impact and immediately say, "that's right" or "that's in the left bunker," etc. before the camera even follows the flight of the ball. My friends are astonished at the accuracy, but if you know the game and minute swing characteristics it's simple.

This week, for instance, Tiger is standing at least one inch further from the ball than when his swing was at its peak in 2000. Pros are never at their best when they're too far from their work. Sally Jenkins wrote an excellent column in the Washington Post this week regarding Tiger's denial of his swing woes. He's still stuck at 8 majors to Jack's 18, and you don't want to be chasing that mark in your late 30s or early 40s.

On edit: Palm Springs must lead the planet in ecological disaster. I vacationed there in April. The area features 125+ courses with more to come.

[ablbodyed]

14. Golf is too....

much a 'belonging'game. Way too hetero "I'm better than you"
Flame me.