Golf - classic or dud

and the end of the open yesterday was rather thrilling

Allis: A mention to Mrs [x] who's just about recovered now from the shock of the burglary. I hope they catch the culprits soon.
Hay: Terrible. [Proceeds to say something about appropriate capital punishment to apply when they are caught]
Allis: Ooh no, surely a bit of flogging first. So the punishment lasts longer.
Hay: Oh yes, of course.

i hit golf balls this week. i have more natural ability at it than most other things that involve hitting balls. fun. and v. satisfying when you actually get it up in the air and far away. though i usually don't get quite as much distance as others. dunno if that's a strength thing or a technique thing (or the stella i had?). not too much exercise if you're just driving, though.

(we never heard of Africa in America, btw. TS: chatty, bubbleheaded non-news v. snide content.)

I've started playing again recently too and my handicaps gone down from a 14 to about an 11/10 - played ardeer and carded an 84 (an unecessary 7 [!!!], and three unecessary 6s) but shoulda been a 79. that is playing to handicap I guess (it was 14) but I reckon markers would have given me the 7 and 6s as 5s (taking into account the rest of my card.)

I love golf.

soft hands!

do you like it? do you play? are you watching wentworth? will you play golf with me?

let's play golf

Yay!

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

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.

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

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?

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!

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)

oh the inevitability of it all!

he's taking a brave stand against this woke golf bullshit

9&7

Cantlay played out of his skin to get the US winning that last session: 3-1.

Five behind

is shane a biffo

Shane Lowry has been outside enough Offaly nightclubs at 2 in the morning to know how to get a lad in a taxi and defuse a situation efficiently. This is experience https://t.co/871O2KS9bJ

— Minister for Spuds at the Dept of Bacon & Cabbage (@FCTwenteBenson) September 30, 2023

Yes

100% yes

Sigh this is too close..

Surely not. Half a fucking point

Straka v Thomas 1UP (17)
Lowry A/S Spieth (16)
1UP Fleetwood v Fowler (15)
MacIntyre A/S Clark (14)

pulling away from the golf to make luke donald forceblub for the cameras was where i switched off. absolutely rank coverage

mmm that's a shame

take that ya wee hat xunt

kind of agree with cantlay, but also he's made $10m this year so fuck off

maybe he should have just turned down the invitation rather than show up and be pissy

As a former Ryder Cup marshal, I endorse this message from Shane Lowry.. 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/0XHHCu2RCR

— lawrencedonegan (@lawrencedonegan) October 1, 2023

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— Mr Topes Golf (@MrTopesGolf) June 15, 2022

I was with a grade 2 class in Listowel, Ontario, today, and one of the boys was Corey Conners' nephew (brother of his mom). "He's rich, you know"--he laughed. (Also said his uncle had won a million dollars when he won the Masters; I said I didn't think so but let it go--I don't doubt that he won a million somewhere.)

ok so do they pump fake bird noises into these broadcasts or are they like mic'ing up the birds in the trees