Golf - classic or dud

I have loved the game, but I'm looking to sell the clubs now. Too damn hot to play here.

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.

i like golf, in theory at least. and golf video games are so relaxing!

the sounds effects in nintendo golf!!! i also like golf in theory and practice

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

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).

am i the only dude watching this

With some justice, golf has been called "a good walk spoiled". I can't say I ever loved it and for most people like me it is pretty dud. But my dad loved it and taught me to appreciate its finer points, just as he taught me to love boxing and appreciate it, too.

Golf is all about achieving fine control over how the club face meets the ball. Ridiculously fine control. Tiny deviations from perfection can result in the ball flying off in all directions and doing nasty things to your score. It appeals to people with a lot of patience, because that is what it takes to swing a golf club in an idiotically nuanced manner, time after time.

My dad liked the gentle camraderie of the golf course, the bad, old jokes and jibes, the strange jargon, the slow pace and the greenery. He wasn't a fierce competitor and he never bet more than a pittance, and only when his partner insisted. But he could whup about 95% of the other players and do it graciously, almost apologetically.

So, in honor of my father, whom I dearly loved, I will say classic.

yeah but is l0u1s jagg3r the only dude watching this

classic: walking around slowly and sort of doing something on a nice day
dud: rich ppl, golf courses ruining the environment

Golf is also the worst game to take up for the day as a complete novice. Normally sport accommodates dilettantes to at least test their hand-eye coordination and participate in some cack-handed manner. Golf destroys the unpracticed. I speak as a wounded survivor.

yeah, ditto.

also classic (pains me though it does to admit it): frisbee golf. esp when you bring beer/w33d

^^^that actually sounds like an awesome game, esp if the "pin" is some sort of quoit peg and the weather is intensely hot

I've given it up, but breaking 80 that one time was pretty great.

i had to look up 'quoit peg' but yeah, it's fun

I think I've once parred a hole, and I've played about 40-50 holes in my life, most of them short par-3s. But what a par it was! Only 80 yard from pin to green but view completely obscured, hit it to about 15 feet! Such are the moments that make it all worth it, surely. Hit the first putt 20 feet past and somehow holed the resulting monster. Easy game tbh.

If you were playing with a flying ring then a quoit peg would work, I'd just imagine there's some sort of table you've gotta land the frisbee on

I'm glancing at the leaderboard occasionally, hoping that this K Perry guy falls apart so I can hilariously point out (to no one but myself) that he's hot and he's cold aaaand so on, ohoho.

tiger is pissed

the masters is def the best sporting event in the world

lol i have pointed out 2 friends that i like to think of kenny perry as katy perry's dad. he's freakin awesome tho. would love to see him win the masters

i fuckin love tiger so much

Thing I've learned from golf commentary: Every single golfer is the greatest human being who ever lived...every one is described as a true gent, honest as the day is long, an inspiration...etc.

Feel sorry for the caddies in there full-body condoms.

Loved the enthusiasm of the guy who was reporting on the players gold bags, he was just so excited.

I quite like golf now, it's relaxing to watch. I want that Spanish guy, Angel something to win, or the Japanese dude with the cool hat.

'their'

What, you mean that Argentine?

Or do you fancy Mr Jiminez for some sort of Lazarine upsurge?

*Jimenez

On yeah, Cabrera, the Argentine! I was half-a-sleep when watching!

Wd like either of the two leaders to win, but I fear Campbell will nick it off both ;_;

aint nothing better than masters sunday imo

pretty great 2 get tiger & phil paired together

lefty is killin it!

OMG THAT SHOT PHIL

OHHH

!!!

omg Woods lolol

watch phil eagle 8 now

Wd like either of the two leaders to win, but I fear Campbell will nick it off both ;_;

― taddletail (country matters), Sunday, 12 April 2009 18:15 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

loooooool

how many fucking putts is tiger going to leave short

ffs

oh boy phil

tiger's been struggling with his irons today...he's putting fine, he just isn't sticking his approaches to <10 feet

That was a severe brain-fart by Mickelson.

yeah, and that's just the way he is, i suppose. playing a nine there is a dumb play. all the trouble is short and being a little long of the pin is not a problem at all...just take your par and get to the par 5 imo

good drive by tiger. he needs an eagle here to have any shot

too long at 12 and you're on the downslope from hell dude

Kenny Perry's swing is even weirder than Jim Furyk's.

xxxpost, I don't think the club selection was the problem as much as the abbreviated swing.

I love Furyk's swing dearly

also I will be happy with this Masters if there is ANY winner other than Chad Campbell

but he will win :(

yeah you dont wanna be long either but it's better than wet. perry's swing is something else...he looks like my mom the way he hesitates at the top of his swing

Somewhere Charles Barkley is looking at Kenny Perry's swing and saying "It just isn't fair!"

lollll barkley, thats who it reminds me of. good call