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― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link
ahem:http://sports.yahoo.golfserv.com/apps/courses/profile.asp?Crs=14815
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link
9-hole courses: dud.18-hole courses where one of the hole designs is repeated a half-dozen times: dud.Lots of changes in elevation: classic.
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Golf is classic so long as you're playing well...
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
I think "links" golf has something to do with those weird golf course where the 18th green is also the 1st green, the 2nd also the 17th &c. (like uh st andrew's?) hence the name "links", but I'm not entirely sure.
where does the name "links" come from?
― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Felix Leiter (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 14 July 2005 09:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Thursday, 14 July 2005 09:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 14 July 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
No punches are spared for the PGA's awful racist history, and yet, I still want to play at Augusta. And I don't even golf!
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link
the "culture" surrounding it can seem quite exclusive and overdefined in a boring and elitist way but I don't assume all golfers/people who play golf fall into that trap but, since it is the way, they probably always have to compromise to it, a little, which is offputting
I don't mind watching it on the telly but wouldn't choose to, really. I have been to a tournament or so and the day was OK but not for the golf, so much. like any sport I don't really like to watch (a lot of which I (would probably) quite enjoy playing, for fun), I might watch the final day or so, if there's nothing else to do/friends are watching it
my problem is talking about golf
I cannot stand people talking about golf
not talking about a tournament, if it's on, but, I'm sure, I wouldn't be interested in that either
people talking about their own games, especially to people who haven't invited it or expressed any interest
and loudly
one of the most boring things
(he (the person that prompted this) also talks about money and, probably, cars (another two of the most boring things))
(I used to play golf, btw, and was a member at my local club (years ago))
(crazy golf and pitch & putt are, of course, classic)
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 10 July 2006 07:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 10 July 2006 07:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Sunday, 23 July 2006 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Sunday, 23 July 2006 10:02 (seventeen years ago) link
oh the inevitability of it all!
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Sunday, 23 July 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 23 July 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Woods' playing ws brually clinical and as much as I wanted to see a close finish it didn't matter in the end. DiMarco played v well, great put for par (on the 15th, i think) to stay in touch. Only one winner tho'.
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Sunday, 23 July 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Sunday, 23 July 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 April 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 April 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 April 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
What a finish this year - poor Harrington :-(
And Lineker interviewing Romero in Spanish...
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 July 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
poor Harrington? Poor Sergio more like (ahem choke ahem)
― Porkpie, Sunday, 22 July 2007 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Golf is classic for golf shorts, mini-golf, and a slight high school reputation for badassery earned for accidentally knocking someone's teeth out with a golf club, but everyone assuming you did it on purpose because the victim was a douche.
Golf is not classic for golf courses and the haughty, smug culture.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 22 July 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
that was exciting.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 22 July 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh Sergio :((((
― lex pretend, Sunday, 22 July 2007 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Apparently there is a big doping problem in Golf these days. madness.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 22 July 2007 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
it was great on thursday when they were asking one of the players (can't remember who) about the doping allegations. his response was exactly what I was thinking, which was "I'm note entirely sure how doping would really improve anyone's game"
― Gukbe, Sunday, 22 July 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
classic if for no other reason than inspiring goofy golf.
― will, Sunday, 22 July 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
despite myself i rather enjoyed the end of the open. no problem with segio garcia but i was glad the paddy won, especially after falling into the drink twice ont he last hole.
― Uptoeleven, Sunday, 22 July 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"poor Harrington? Poor Sergio more like (ahem choke ahem)"
Ha! I posted that just after Harrington's ball hit the water for a 2nd time at the 18th.
Poor Sergio :-(
But what a fantastic finish. No probs w/Harrington's win. He played great.
BUT POOR SERGIO :-(
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 July 2007 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link
really delighted that harrington won!
― Ronan, Sunday, 22 July 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
PAIDI
― Ronan, Sunday, 10 August 2008 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
hurrah
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 10 August 2008 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link
i like golf, in theory at least. and golf video games are so relaxing!
― s1ocki, Sunday, 10 August 2008 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
so happy for him...what a worker he is. must be close to greatest Irish sportsman of all time.
― Ronan, Sunday, 10 August 2008 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
lol yr goin down america
― Just got offed, Sunday, 10 August 2008 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I have loved the game, but I'm looking to sell the clubs now. Too damn hot to play here.
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 11 August 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Seve :( hopefully will be okay.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/7673984.stm
nice video there. something about seeing golf brings me back to being 5 and 6 years old, watching with my parents.
― Local Garda, Friday, 17 October 2008 19:12 (fifteen years ago) link
the sounds effects in nintendo golf!!! i also like golf in theory and practice
― ******* (Lamp), Friday, 17 October 2008 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
golf is classic, i'll be sad when it snows. also, golf courses aren't so bad - they're good habitats/refuge for all kinds of wildlife - waterfowl, deer, elk, etc etc. not that big of a deal on a course like greywolf in canada, which sits in the middle of forest and mountains, but pretty cool for courses planted in the middle of the city. good course design is about trying to use the land as it is - planting native plants, ensuring proper water drainage, and naturally merging the course into the existing terrain as much as possible.
i also like golf video games, but i might be biased since part of my job is designing and building courses for golf video games and golf sims
― 6335, Friday, 17 October 2008 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Golf is fun. It's a "sport" that one doesn't have to be good at to go out there and try to play. It's a good exercise in concentration and patience. I put "sport" in quotes because people sometimes want to argue if it's a sport or not.
I even love to watch televised golf. The announcers cliched commentary is really amusing as hell, and then they go and say something really stupidly funny that becomes a classic "repeat it" line. I don't fit on on the golf course at all, and can't play for s**** but it's still the only "sport" in which I can even slightly participate in real life and get away with it. Geekiness on the golf course seems to be accepted for some odd reason. I have fun being the "caddy" just walking the course with someone who actually can PLAY the game, and it gives one an excuse to dress up in ridiculously flashy clothes that anywhere else are a clashing eyesore. A golf course is lovely too, all that expanse of green grass manicured and sand traps raked in zen like designs. I think if I have to define it, I like it because it is refined, unlike other sports like football or basketball. (Yep, I am a definite chick).
― Wiggy Woo, Saturday, 18 October 2008 02:59 (fifteen years ago) link
am i the only dude watching this
― a steak of romanticism (country matters), Friday, 10 April 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link