Golf - classic or dud

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I used to, I wasn't very good though. I will play when I'm older again. I like to watch golf obviously, and clearly I am a fan of it. I own 2 golf sweaters.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I need to work on my golf sweaters!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

having just vanquished my slice i must say super classic. as for it not being "strenuous" i sort of disagree.

― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

so fkn classic

let's play golf

― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

I would gladly play golf with all of you. I'm not very good. I had lessons when I was about 13.

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

I've been really really wanting to play recently. I have to make do with Hot Shots on the PS2. An ILX golf thing would be great. Ronan can come.

― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

I would love to play golf with ronan.

― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

on E.

― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

rex the dog can caddy.

― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

just wait for the vitalic remix.

― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Golf FAP. It can only end in hideous disaster.

Yay!

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

I hit the ball like I'm skipping stones. Still, the guy I used to go to the range with would bring a box of Franzia with him, so Classic.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

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― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

you can get mizuno t-zoid irons at around £100 on ebay nowadays!

― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

[xpost to Gear!]

ahem:
http://sports.yahoo.golfserv.com/apps/courses/profile.asp?Crs=14815

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

I broke 80, once, a couple of years ago. Now I'm down to playing once a year.

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 (twenty years ago)

can someone here, once and for all, explain what a "links" course is and how it differs from other courses, without resorting to mysticism?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_course

Golf is classic so long as you're playing well...

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

haha. ok uh as I understand it tracer - it's traditionally courses by the sea but that's not the definition. I think the definition lies in the type of soil that the grass lies in: it's a mix of sand and earth, which gives it a very hard, dry consistency (hard to divot, balls 'fly' off the face more) (y'know cs if you take a bigger divot you get more spin and more scoop and balls fly softer and higher and with more backspin.) they are monumentally hard to play because you have less control over the ball (less backspin, see above) and they are all moundy and bumpy, the ones I've played. I come from 'links country', just off troon, in scotland.

― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

gygax otm

― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

yay! gygax thank you for the link but i very specifically asked for "someone here"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

links courses are classic obv cause they make the best of the bad bunch: the soil by the sea is preternaturally so bad and so unwieldy for golfer but it's such a nice area to play golf in, golfers just make do. they are really windy too.

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 (twenty years ago)

I played Lake Shastina a few years ago and the nines were sort of separated half-woodland and half-links. It's right next to Mt. Shasta so there was a steady 25-mph wind coming down off the mountain that made the back nine some of the funnest, toughest golf I've ever played.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I wish I was golfing today.

― Felix Leiter (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

i play occasionally. of course, i don't belong or fit in, but it's fun. i've gotten pretty good.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

yeah ILX golf would be good, plus a round at what golfer's affectionately call "the 19th hole", (a public refreshment facility)

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 14 July 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

They have crazy golf in Maidenhead.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Thursday, 14 July 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

crazy golf is where it's at.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 14 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

I've been reading The Wicked Game by Howard Sounes. It's a really good book. Sounes traces the careers of Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods, and it's neat to see how the lines intersect. (I just reached the part where Nicklaus wins the 1986 Masters, and a ten-year old Tiger Woods pins the Golden Bear's records clippings to his bedroom wall.)

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 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

I don't really have a problem w/ golf

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 (nineteen years ago)

(he is also sexist (jokingly, he probably thinks) and pretty stupid)

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 10 July 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

Gracia-Woods might be a great match later today..

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Sunday, 23 July 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Garcia, I meant.

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Sunday, 23 July 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

Garcia hasn't got his game round the greens up to shape and Woods is remote controlling the ball. The nearest challeneger is Els but he has just dropped a shot.

oh the inevitability of it all!

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Sunday, 23 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

The ABC guys are bringing up a good point about accuracy being more important than distance, at least in this tournament, and that Tiger should consider keeping the 1-iron in his bag. I kind of don't like the Vijay Singh school of thought that driving accuracy is not so important, and that the deep rough is not so much a hazard if you only have a wedge to the green. That didn't even get him to the weekend this time.

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 23 July 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah the diff between the open and the US majors is distance, the wind can play more of a role (not enough this w/end tho') and maybe more bunkers over here so accuracy is even more important.

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 (nineteen years ago)

There was a lot of people giving it the 'get in the hole' nonsense. I don't care enough about golf to care that much, but it really is annoying, boorish and bollocks, really.

― Dave B (daveb), Sunday, 23 July 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Woods has never won a major from behind...first time for everything?

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 April 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Just revived as he ws about to go onto the 13th (par 5) - he's got an eagle - joint 2nd.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 April 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Some great stuff - Woods just pars after getting into trouble in the 15th, then Rose (who looked a bit out of it) suddenly finds himself one behind. The leader (Zach Johnson) is getting nervous.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 April 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

What a finish this year - poor Harrington :-(

And Lineker interviewing Romero in Spanish...

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 July 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

poor Harrington? Poor Sergio more like (ahem choke ahem)

― Porkpie, Sunday, 22 July 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

that was exciting.

― Gukbe, Sunday, 22 July 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Oh Sergio :((((

― lex pretend, Sunday, 22 July 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

Apparently there is a big doping problem in Golf these days. madness.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 22 July 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

classic if for no other reason than inspiring goofy golf.

― will, Sunday, 22 July 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

"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 (eighteen years ago)

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