Golf.
Golf, I just don’t get it. Walking around a manicured course hitting a ball to try to get it down a far-distant tiny hole. You might get it it the sand-pit, or it may fall into a water-trap. So what? If you want the exercise, go for a long walk along a nature trail instead.
Many golfers don’t even bother to get the exercise. They drive around in little carts, so they only have to walk a few feet to take their next hit. And most don’t carry the clubs any longer; using little trolleys, or paying someone else to carry them instead.
Then there are the clothes.
Okay, they might not wear this stuff anymore, but you have to be suitably attired even now.
And don’t get me started on watching this so-called ‘sport’ on TV. I would sooner watch paint dry on a wall.
I know that the top players can earn untold millions, but that still doesn’t attract me. I don’t like that ‘golf club’ atmosphere, or the fact that it seems to be almost compulsory in some careers to take up the game. ‘Deals done by the 18th hole’, and all that stuff.
Then there is the fact that some people who are obsessed with golf are just not my kind of people.
Sorry, golf fans. I don’t like it.
I used to walk the borders of a few courses and collect the lost balls. At 50p or a Β£1 a ball, depending on condition and brand, it was possible to sell them at the car boot sales, or even just out of your car boot in pub car parks. Balls for beer π
I had a couple of friends who used to scuba dive the water obstacles on a few of the courses in Jersey once a year and donate the money collect on lost balls. They raised thousands of pounds every year π
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Selling lost balls is one positive by-product of this tiresome hobby, Eduardo.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I can take or leave golf personally. Nevertheless, I love that last picture you inserted concerning how some golf players are not your kind of people π Anyway, keep up the great work as always π
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Thanks, John. Many ‘world leaders’ see to be attracted to golf. That should tell us a great deal.
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Ditto, Pete. I don’t like it.
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Glad to hear that, Lara. π
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(1) I wonder if a golfer’s car of choice is the Volkswagen Golf?
(2) The 19th hole is the gopher’s.
(3) I’ve only attended one golf tournament. Justin Timberlake was the celebrity player. Since I stayed in one location, I can’t be sure that Justin avoided the trees and water traps.
(4) Time travel, I just donβt get it. Warp speeding through the cosmic frontier, avoiding gravity traps, and hoping to slip one’s spacecraft into a distant wormhole.
(5) For a long time, I mispronounced Titleist. I knew what a tit was, but a leist?
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By a strange coincidence, I did once own a VW Golf. The gearstick knob was like a black golf ball. That’s as close as I ever got. π
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It is a difficult sport, and very popular here. I tried to play a few times, and said ‘no thanks.’
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I would have found it so boring, Jennie. Play the first hole, and there are 17 more just like it! π
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Cant see you in checked salmon and gunmetal lambswool!
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Or knee socks and a cap! π
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I totally agree with you! I always enjoy watching the golf scene of Falling Down with Michael Douglas ranting about golf and golf players! :–D
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Thanks Sam. Though I did actually enjoy the film ‘Tin Cup’. π
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I’m with you on this. Him indoors enjoys watching it but is not fanatical about it. In 1979 I was working with Max Wall, John Carson in a lovely theatre company. All the men – actors and crew alike – came out with their golfing stories and had us in stitches. So give me the funny stories but you can keep the rest!
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Thanks, Sarah. I had suspected you would not be a fan of this sport.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Oh, boy, Pete, you hit the nail on the head as I am concerned. The only golf that interests me is watching Caddy Shack.
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Thanks, Don. I had an idea you wouldn’t be a golfer. You are far too interesting. π
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Never got into golf because it was too expensive and back then the people that played it really didn’t run in my circle.
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No, I don’t like golf either. Boring! There’s a golf course next to where we live and we have to cross it to get to the beach. Walkers are allowed to walk across it, but god help you if you stray off the designated path or your dog defecates on a green. The cows, on the other hand, are allowed to walk and poop all over it.
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I think cows are getting more influential, as they become ever more aggressive. Even the golf clubs are scared of them!
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I’m not keen either and thankfully my husband isn’t interested. Seems a bit of a waste of time and why would anyone watch it on TV?? To each his own I guess.
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Yes of course. Golfers do me no harm, I just don’t like it. π
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Pete, our current President criticized our previous President for playing golf…yet in the 4 years in office, our current President has golfed more than all previous Presidents combined, at a cost to taxpayers for security and travel in excess of $140-million. Shameful.
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One more reason not to like Golf!
Thanks, John.
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Hope the lockdown in your country is having a positive effect…we are soaring over here!
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Not really, John. Lots of people are more or less ignoring the rules.
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Sad to hear, Pete…same here.
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I suppose it is all in how one is introduced to the game. Three times people have taken me for a golf outing. It failed to take. The first time it could have been the thin layer of snow on the ground (we used orange balls). The second time it could have been the fellows in the group who seemed more intent on counting beer cans drained than strokes per hole. The third time it could have been the carrying of the bag in 100 degrees F heat. But, it did not take. Warmest regards, Theo
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I avoided all of that, by never trying it in the first place. π
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As a child I loved crazy golf and in my thirties I had a slight addiction to a golf computer game which I was really rather good at! But I have never played the actual game and I can’t understand what you get out of watching it. The snobbery of it turns me off, though maybe that’s just here and the US. Spain and the Algarve do alright from the game.
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Crazy golf is 15 minutes of fun at the seaside. But Golf itself is almost like a religion to those involved in it. I just cannot for the life of me see the attraction.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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lol. my husband loves to play golf and so with my daughter and son. i don’t. π but i go for a short round with them once in a rare while. π π
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I know golf has its devotees. I just don’t understand why. π
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What I find absolutely stupid is that nearly everybody nowadays uses golf carts instead of walking – which is, to my mind, the only good about golf. But then, as you say, why do you need to drive a ball around at the same time and not just walk.
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The walking was the only good excuse. Using golf carts makes a mockery of the so-called ‘exercise’.
Thanks, Pit.
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Exactly!
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I agree woth you about the game of golf. I’ve never understood the fascination people have with it.
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Thanks for being on my side, Molly. π
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Not for me either, Pete. And I find it very annoying that golf courses are very exclusive and always in stunningly beautiful locations, and that means we can’t access it (those of us who like to walk, as you say). I’m sure I’d be terrible at it as well, but I don’t find it interesting to watch either.
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Glad to hear you are on board with this one, Olga. π
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My dad and Jon used to play together – fine, they enjoyed it – but when they came home they re-played it, analysing every stroke played. Yawn.
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Yes, that’s a double yawn, Mary. Not just playing it, reliving it too! π
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Iβve never understood the appeal either Pete, not for playing or watching. This is quite timely though as The Masters is currently taking place in the U.S.
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Yes, I saw on the news it has been affected by bad weather. Yawn… π
Best wishes, Pete.
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Pete I agree completely….heard somewhere that Golf is a good walk spoiled. chuq
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The origin of that saying is still disputed. Here’s one vwersion.
H. S. Scrivener, attributed the saying to fellow tennis players named the Allens.
β¦ my good friends the Allens β¦ one of the best of their many excellent dicta is that βto play golf is to spoil an otherwise enjoyable walk.β
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I love the saying….thanx for clearing it up a bit chuq
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βAnd donβt get me started on watching this so-called βsportβ on TV. I would sooner watch paint dry on a wallβ…well that pretty much is me and almost every sport so there is thatππ
I do like miniature golf but Iβm with you on this sport. It has never in any way attracted me…and I donβt think it ever will! So far. most of the things you donβt like, I havenβt liked either!ππ
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Good to hear, Michel. I am the same with all sports too, but golf is particularly boring on TV.
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Not for me, though that accounts for most sports.
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Same for me, but golf has that added ‘social class’ thing that annoys me.
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You’d think after the all these years of ‘watching paint dry’ being referred to a preferred activity that it would actually be classed as a sport now π
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Good one, Ami. You should invent it. I am sure Sky Sports would buy the idea from you! π
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Now there’s a thought! π
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You speak from my heart.
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Glad to hear that, Irene. π
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I don’t have a problem per se with the game, having played it a bit when I was younger, but I hasten to add never as a member of a club [not being the ‘clubbable’ sort generally], and I was never good enough to satisfy my own perfectionism. I’ve never liked the elitism and the other social issues you cite: I think the golf club comes second only to the Freemasons with regard to opportunities for deal-making [ooh: controversial! π ] The analogy about “a good walk spoiled” seems very appropriate in connection with rap music, which I just don’t ‘get’: I think of it as a good tune spoiled. Cheers, Jon.
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I am with you on Rap music, Jon. And that sense of elitism that seems to be present in golf clubs.
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I agree golf is a good walk ruined. So much open space taken up by a privileged few who use it exclusively only during daylight hours.
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Nicely put, mimfilip. π
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I am not a golf fan either..but when I golf I am relaxed and not concerned about winning….that’s why I have had a hole in one a few times…π
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A hole in one might make it more exciting. π
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I’ve never played golf, but a few times, many years ago, I went with my husband, keeping his score, as he played.
Very boring, but the vlub we were at was quite a pretty one. A bushwalk would be better though.
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Thanks, Carolyn. I can imagine it was boring indeed.
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Trying to neottiate the score was a useful life lesson, leading to a strong marriage! Give and take, reward good things, forgive the bad. But don’t forget.
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