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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's all just another reason for me not to watch golf on TV.
I mean, I'd rather watch a bowling tournament than golf. And I hate bowling tournaments. Almost as much as poker tournaments.
Oh, just never mind...
RainCaster
(10,691 posts)Same can be said for bowling and sailing.
Jerry2144
(2,046 posts)And drinking is an excuse for bowling.
KentuckyWoman
(6,666 posts)Well. He actually slept in the recliner with golf on and the remote hijacked in his hand.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Golf is boring to watch. Heck, I think it's boring to play, too. Just boring generally...
Jerry2144
(2,046 posts)The Paint Drying Channel over watching golf. Yesterdays episode titled Mauve was the best
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)you should have no problem avoiding watching golf on TV.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)runs PGA tour golf on most weekends. We like to watch the local news at 5 PM, but those tournaments never finish on time, and the local CBS affiliate station, WCCO, does not cut away for the news programming. That makes me hunt for another local news program at that time. During part of the year, there are none doing the news at 5 PM. Football, Basketball, Golf, there's one or another of them on at that time on all of the network affiliates. Very annoying.
I'm not a sports fan, but I'm a news junkie.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)And if you don't, here's a link to MSNBC you can watch online: https://livenewschat.eu/politics/
Because I don't happen to own a regular TV, I depend on live streaming or various links to watch stuff.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)to watch the local news on that CBS affiliate station. I prefer that news team to the other local ones.
That's the fun thing about television. I get to choose what I watch, rather than watch what others want me to watch.
Please reread the post you replied to.
brush
(53,475 posts)even less.
Golf is hard. The pros make it look easy, but trust me, it's hard. It's said that hitting a major league-level, pitched baseball is the hardest thing in sports, hitting a golf ball straight consistently is just as hard. As a duffer I keep up with the leader board during the major tournaments, then switch back to what I was watching.
It can be fun though when you're out on the course with your buddies all of about the same skill level, you're out in nature with the trees, wind, wildlife glimpses, creeks/water features, the beer wench comes around, you're smoking cigars maybe, work/family worries temporarily out of mind...it can be fun.
But now that the American governing body of the sport has shown what hypocrites they are by selling out to the Saudis, I have to re-think the whole, damn thing.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Fishing. Now, that's something I enjoy. I don't watch other people fish, though. That just makes me sad that I'm not on the lake.
Ocelot II
(115,280 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Really, watching other people work isn't something I normally find enjoyable.
Sky Jewels
(6,862 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Three weeks in one minute. Bamboo is a grass.
Sky Jewels
(6,862 posts)The sprouts look like pointy aliens at first.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)I had a bamboo patch in California. Not huge bamboo like that, but it did grow very fast.
kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)She said she was disgusted and wont be watching it anymore.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Sky Jewels
(6,862 posts)... but now I do.
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,005 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,162 posts)nuxvomica
(12,365 posts)I caddied for my dad for years and to my thinking golf is a boring walk on an obsessively manicured lawn pulling a two-wheel cart the handle of which is black rubber which permanently stains your hands after you've applied mosquito repellent that doesn't keep the mosquitoes away.
ProfessorGAC
(64,427 posts)No servants.
In fact I've played 2 rounds in my life with a caddy.
I've been to outings at high end country clubs. No caddy.
Your knowledge of how golf is played by the masses (Yeah, there's 41 million of us, so masses) is obviously lacking.
At high competitive level, caddies aren't servants, either. They're extremely knowledgeable technicians who typically make $150k per year. The guys that work for the big names make up to a half-millon. Not exactly "servant" class.
At the famed Whistling Straits near Sheboygan, Wisconsin the (ridiculously high) greens fees of $555 includes a caddy, who gets $180 of that. That's $40-45 per hour. There are caddies there making 8 or 9 loops a week. This is an $80,000/year gig.
Facts are pesky things, aren't they.
ProfessorGAC
(64,427 posts)You weren't watching anyway, so why this pointless comment.
Yes, I'm an avid golfer. Yes, I'm interested in the tour. Yes, I'm upset about this disgusting merger.
Your post is still needless condescension toward those that have different interests.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)OK, then...
Initech
(99,915 posts)"You ever watch golf on TV? It's like watching flies fuck!"