would gladly hear about tiger woods shooting 10 over par, but give me a fucking break when he's tied for 25th or whatever
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 April 2024 04:59 (two weeks ago) link
OTM. It's been the same in every single major he's been in for the last 20 odd years.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 April 2024 08:47 (two weeks ago) link
Woods gets more following and was totally unique as we have gone on to see. Making the cut even now is incredible.
Scheffler is very unexciting (and a Christian lol). Anyone who could've replaced Woods (Rory, Spieth) fell away after winning 2-4 majors in quick succession.
Aberg sounds like a massive talent but he's only just starting.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 April 2024 09:42 (two weeks ago) link
tiger was an utter phenomenon 25 years ago and he was a top player even ten years ago. he's a legend. but he's not going to catch nicklaus, and while i do not envy him the circumstances in which he was raised, he seems to be a weird asshole
as far as making the cut, well, so did vijay, and he's 61. anyway i simply don't need Moments and analysis from Tiger Woods' round about a dude who finished +16
(tbh i wondered if the koepka-dechambeau beef was a scripted work in an attempt to draw eyes to non-tiger players, but it seems like they really do loathe each other)
― mookieproof, Sunday, 14 April 2024 22:15 (two weeks ago) link
Golf
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:56 (one week ago) link
Golf is so so hateable, maybe now more than ever, but god do I enjoy playing it and watching these assholes do their thing. Really was into Speith’s whole vibe when he was rolling. Loved watching lefty pull birdies out of his ass. Love how fucked up pebble beach is.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 23:38 (one week ago) link
Oof yeah, I am repulsed by golf
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 23:48 (one week ago) link
i still feel like golf is one of those sports where if enough people had the time to play it and practice it all the time that there would be a TON of legendary golfers. kinda like bowling. whereas, i don't think this is true of other sports. like tennis? or baseball? maybe sports where you have to have amazing hand/eye coordination. seem harder to me. i'm not saying being good at golf is easy its just that so few people ever get a chance to get good at it. but millions of kids play tennis and baseball at high school levels and hardly any of them will ever be good enough to play on a good college team, let alone go pro. i think there would be a tiger woods in every city if enough kids played it all damn day long.
so maybe that's why i don't respect golf that much. but i could be totally wrong. plus, its boring. unless you have some sort of procedure done and you have one of those good doctors who gives you the good pain pills and you are on a couch all day and that sea of green and sand looks like infinity and heaven rolled into a little white ball.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 23:52 (one week ago) link
9 holes on a dewey morning, it’s just beautiful my friend
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 00:02 (one week ago) link
very meditative and grounding, ok I’m done.
i love the smell of weed killer in the morning...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 00:15 (one week ago) link
haha, i totally get why people like things. i really do.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 00:22 (one week ago) link
I enjoy the game of golf, but don't really have the means to do it, so I play golf video games from time to time.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 00:55 (one week ago) link
i don’t watch or follow golf but my dad did and i associate the sound of a golf game on tv with a certain feeling of home (in a pleasant way). i get being bored by it/not caring about it but it doesn’t rouse strong passions in me either way. mini golf is fun but i’m not very good at it lol
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 02:26 (one week ago) link
lol fair
i still feel like golf is one of those sports where if enough people had the time to play it and practice it all the time that there would be a TON of legendary golfers
not sure i agree, but it's a good question! otoh, we absolutely do not need more people who play it and practice it all the time
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 02:31 (one week ago) link
Man, I loved playing it, but didn't have any friends who played, and playing alone is not huge fun, and I always had sweat burning my eyeballs, and it's bad for the environment, so I gave it up after 10 years...but I loved playing.
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 02:35 (one week ago) link
Old school driving ranges (not that Top Golf shit) and mini golf rule
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 02:47 (one week ago) link
driving ranges and mini golf do indeed rule! so much fun.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 03:36 (one week ago) link
idk if any higher % of ppl to swing a club make it pro than any other sport tbh
and if anyone has ever tried to consistently get any good at landing the ball within a dozen yards of a flag 250 yards away i doubt theyd speculate about how easy it is
nb only americans play baseball, really. and tennis seems to me to be /at least/ as middle class barriers to entry as a route
but golf seems to be one of those yank coded things and my island is essentially one large, reasonably-priced golf resort so hey
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 05:51 (one week ago) link
deems what is your handicap
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 06:13 (one week ago) link
(i almost broke 90 once)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 06:15 (one week ago) link
I remember a major argument on ILX with Tuomas (I think) about golf.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 06:38 (one week ago) link
im no good at golf mookie i never got near a handicap
xp yeah tuomas didnt believe things could be different than hed decided and hed decided golf was impossible based on being finnish iirc
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 06:41 (one week ago) link
don't care about golfdon't care about upper class English peoplebut pg Wodehouse's golf stories otoh
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 06:48 (one week ago) link
I’d like golf more if the courses were less manicured and unnatural. Green lawns are enough of an offense to god in half of the US, acres of pristine Saint Augustine are another level.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 06:55 (one week ago) link
i usually try to preserve my acidity by self-inserting "in the united states" to an awful lot of posts but look ive made the effort above to actually note the varying relevant contexts and im not sure that our respondents are open
(US open?)
anyway golf is a decent spectator tv sport for a relaxing evening until a good major or the ryder cup when it becomes the pinnacle of sports viewership imo
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 07:24 (one week ago) link
fwiw (i almost broke 90 once) = same
honestly the most impressive golf performance i've ever seen was by this left-handed dude i knew in university who was compelled to play with right-handed clubs. i mean, he wasn't *good* but by god he got that ball to that hole again and again
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 07:31 (one week ago) link
went round a nice course- mainly heather and sheep, milo would approve- with a fella once and all he carried was a 3 wood, a nine and a putter and he looked like a dwarf and played like a wizard
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 07:33 (one week ago) link
I absolutely think golf takes skill and practice, I just hate it and find it completely repulsive. There’s a reason “Chemical Warfare” is among my favorite Dead Kennedys songs. That said, as a practitioner of a somewhat marginal and weird sport, I totally don’t want to yuck others yum because I know that most people are like “you climb rocks??!”
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 11:10 (one week ago) link
i fantasise about rewilding all the golf courses near me.
― ledge, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 11:23 (one week ago) link
yuck others yum
ban table
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 11:39 (one week ago) link
its official. golf is the 51st most difficult game to play. i think its debatable that its harder than cheerleading though. those pyramids are tough!
https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/sportSkills
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 11:46 (one week ago) link
_yuck others yum_ban table
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 11:54 (one week ago) link
No cricket, no credibility.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 11:59 (one week ago) link
In fact, why isn't cricket in that table when rugby is?
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:01 (one week ago) link
"as far as making the cut, well, so did vijay, and he's 61. anyway i simply don't need Moments and analysis from Tiger Woods' round about a dude who finished +16"
Tiger has been making the cut for w4 years, a record. I don't know it's impressive in between all the shaghing and car crashing.
But I get you he is not winning another major.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:07 (one week ago) link
Golf combines a very masculine ish skill of hitting a ball hard with putting which requires something more zen like. Find that combo unique.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:09 (one week ago) link
home run hitting/bunting
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:18 (one week ago) link
forehand smash/lob
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:19 (one week ago) link
Big difference between putting in golf and lobbing in tennis. I've got no idea what that baseball term means.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:47 (one week ago) link
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:52 (one week ago) link
analysis of long play as being all about masculine traits would be quickly shut down if were were speaking about tennis or etc imo, its about technique
anyway rock climbings cool id like to do it but my upper body is made of wet communion wafer
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:01 (one week ago) link
Golf does have one thing going for it: it’s a sport where it’s ok to drink and smoke while you play it. How many other sports can say the same? Bowling. That’s really it
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:17 (one week ago) link
Darts
― the scouse that roared (Matt #2), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:18 (one week ago) link
My older brother climbs rocks. I dunno. I have dinky forearms for gentle music making. Guitar nails on my right hand. I don’t think I can do it. I want to, my brother loves it, says it’s the best core workout around.
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:20 (one week ago) link
Fair call to darts, I’ll stick with my pinball tho
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:22 (one week ago) link
wait, maybe i didn't mean lob = putting. i meant those shots where someone runs up to the ball after some huge smash by their opponent and then they just barely touch the ball and it just barely goes over the net and its impossible to return. i love those. finesse! touch! more than muscle! i like those players who are good at coming up to the net. it shows courage. omg, tennis is WAY harder than golf. tennis is insane. at least on a pro level.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:59 (one week ago) link
Finesse touch sure but the tennis players don't spend agonized minutes pacing up and down, trying to work out how best to hit the ball, holding their racket up to work out angles and bevels in the court, asking a ballboy what he thinks, before dinking the ball over the net.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:20 (one week ago) link
Also, THE YIPS!
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:21 (one week ago) link
... though apparently to do get the yips in other sports, including tennis!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yips
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:22 (one week ago) link