Golf.

[eyesroll]

What say you?

[GOPisEvil]

1. I just played today.

I enjoy it a lot, but if I had to give it up, I'd eventually get over it. It's a good way to spend time with my friends, get some sun and some exercise (when I walk - today we rode).

Oh, and for your unfortunate friend, a sympathy cringe.

[eyesroll]

8. He has kids now, so I know I didn't do permanent damage.

That pretty much soured me on the game. (13 years or so ago...)

[progmom]

2. never tried it

somewhat interested to find out if i might not be terrible at it. but that's a lot of $$ to invest in equipment just to find out you suck. :shrug:

[GOPisEvil]

3. Take a class through a continuing education dept.

They usually have clubs available to learn with.

And, if you're not concerned with having the latest, greatest stuff, you can get whole sets fairly inexpensively.

[Wapsie B]

4. It's a very unforgiving game.

One mistake, no matter how small and you pay for it. I like the fact that it's in the fresh air and sun. It's a real mental challenge.

[Awsi Dooger]

11. Ain't that the truth

Almost no margin for error. Just watching the pros gives the average viewer who doesn't play the game no clue how difficult golf is. Physically and mentally challenging to the max. One minute flaw in your setup or swing or grip and the ball goes haywire.

I'm frustrated that my game has fallen off so much from my teenage years. Now I have to be satisified with the handful of excellent shots, not shooting a score threatening par. It's the one reason I wish I were not as tall because you have a lot more moving parts and further away from your work when you're almost 6-4. Just for a month or so I'd love to try this sport at about 5-10.

This time of year is a particular downer because I do well betting PGA one-on-one matchups so it sucks when the season ends. Driving distance and putting. That's all you need to prioritize.

[Truebrit71sbruv]

5. Voted the last option because it came closest to my last...

... attempt at golf when I teed my ball up so high on the first that I actually put so much back spin on the bastard that it ended up braining some poor bugger queuing up to tee-off behind me...

[XNASA]

6. Golf is the only thing I ever tried that I got progressively worse at.

If you don't count the other thing.

[CatholicEdHead]

7. Too expensive

Paying $20-25/round gets pretty expensive or $1500/year if you go with a membership.

[DancingBear]

9. I would LOVE to pay $20-25 per round.

Here in northern Virginia an average round is $50-60, and it is not unusual at all to pay $100.

Don't even ask about weekend rates - which by the way start on Friday around here.

[GOPisEvil]

10. WTF?!?! That's outrageous!

Municipal walking rate on the weekend is $17-19. A cart is $10 per rider. So, I can play for less than $20. On a weekend.

I played today at a semi-private course (Sun City Texas). I paid $38 including cart.

Remind me not to play in NoVa.

[DainBramaged]

12. There should have been a "hose me off if I ever play" category

There is NO ONE THING, NOT ONE, that is more closely associated with the Corrupt Cons. Religion isn't, because the fruit cake division isn't even 20% of them. Golf is the epitome of ostentatious wannabeeism.

You get all of these fat ass money-grinding bung holes in their plaid pants spending the equivalent of a third world nation's domestic output to buy clubs and gear JUST so their buddies can get wood and envious to the point of selling their children to get better stuff.

The heads of business great and small alike, are the cocksuckers who drive (pun intended) golf to the detriment of mankind while devoting HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of square acres to playing the world's most fucked "sport" while people live in appliance boxes.

[GOPisEvil]

13. Yeah, that was me today, plotting the overthrow of the little guy.

:eyes:

[DainBramaged]

14. I guess I should hose you off

You were SURROUNDED by them, surrounded. You should have felt your skin crawling.

[GOPisEvil]

15. I played with my friends.

We're all current or former state of Texas employees, so none of us is rolling in money. They're really good guys.

[DainBramaged]

16. My eyes my eyes, gazing on "them" as they stroll across the greens

The shield of your friends

does not prevent the evil thoughts

from penetrating your brainpan


while the brain worms come up from the tee


and penetrate your eardrums


oh fuck, look at that slice, shit off the tee, damn in the rough

all code words to suck you in

[GOPisEvil]

17. Yeah, I was trying to decide whether to oppress some minorities or

or have a sandwich.

I had the sandwich...this time.

[DainBramaged]

19. Those "clubs" are designed to make up for their little wieners

=


Do not let them fool you

they are designed to make you think they are powerful

when in fact

they are nothing more than wieners

[GOPisEvil]

21. Hey, I just got out of the pool!

Ever hear of shrinkage?

Sheesh.

[DainBramaged]

24. New balls for old weiner golfers

=

[Awsi Dooger]

23. I'm trying to find one thing in that post I actually recognize

from stereotype to reality.

I've been playing lately with a 77 year old widower lifelong Democrat who loves the game and is just worried his arthritic body won't allow him to play golf much longer. He tells me about his wife's game and how she taught their children to play because his bad back wouldn't allow him to play in that era. The family reunions for decades always centered around a weekend of golf because that's the only activity they all loved and would travel to participate in. But I guess they were all worthless ostentatious cocksuckers.

When I played in Miami this summer, the head pro was donating his time to teach a clinic twice a week, mostly minority kids. I donated my mom's old set of women's irons to him, and you should have seen the barrel of junk clubs he used for that clinic but the kids hardly knew the difference and were thrilled to be whacking away.

Locate a nearby decade. Plaid pants?

[DainBramaged]

25. Oh well

I guess my opinion of a "sport" that was and always will be for those with larger amounts of disposable incomes than 99% of Liberals and with a lot more time than the necessity for a second job or time spent devoted to the needy is as valid as your experience, which in itself is as rare as one of us owning a Bentley Continental GT as a second car.

[Kingofalldems]

18. Serious golfers (like me) are on an endless quest

to improve their game. Consequently, they are always on the lookout for an instant game improvement aid. And the golf equipment people absolutely clean up on them. Has anyone seen that new Callaway driver?

[GOPisEvil]

22. *looking through new Edwin Watts catalog*

*drools*

Now I know what to go to my local shop and buy. ;)

[Parrcrow]

20. Golf is a good way to spoil a nice walk --

-- Mark Twain, I believe.