What the hell is it with Golf?

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

You go to watch, and you may as well be standing in a frigging library.

I want to see golf played like every other sport (except tennis, where the library volume is still in effect) where golfers compete despite the noise of the crowd.

I think the PGA should have one event as a pilot where the golfers are surrounded by European soccer fans in the galleries. They should have horns, drums, flags, and all other ecoutrements of soccer. I also think Seamus should be there to scream "HOOOOOOOOOLE!" at the top of his lungs when the ball goes in the cup. Any golfer who scores a hole in one would also immediately strip off their shirt and sprint around the green, down the fairway and back to the tee.

DBDB

[meegbear]

1. They should golf naked and have artillary fire going off ...

I also think they should hold the America's Cup race at Niagra Falls. The ratings would go through the roof.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Because at its roots, golf is a 'gentlemanly' game.

And gentlemen don't act in a boisterous fashion.

Actually, a sustained loud noice probably wouldn't bother most golfers. What bugs a golfer is a sudden, sharp noise.

[tjwmason]

9. Pah - golf is for yobbos who think that they're gentlemen

and think that by playing golf they're suddenly made better than everybody else (present company excepted, if there are any golfers around).

I spent 4 years at St. Andrews (the university was there hundres of years before golf was too), and so had many opportunities to cultivate a deep-seated hatred of the game (note game rather than sport).

[GOPisEvil]

13. I said at its roots, it's a gentlemanly game.

Obviously that has changed over time. I play regularly, and don't consider myself above anyone else because of it. There are self-imporatant assholes who play golf as there are self-important assholes in any activity.

I agree the golf is an activity with competitive elements, rather than a true sport, but that's just semantics.

That said, it's just plain rude to disturb someone while they are making a swing.

Spelling edit.

[Orsino]

3. If it requires more than a putter...

...and has neither windmills nor dinosaurs, it ain't golf.

Putt-putt is a man's sport, baby!

[underpants]

4. My wife caught on about it really quick

When first started dating she asked the same question....

Cut to the opening of a CBS telecast-silhouetted David Love addressing the ball all you can see is his outline and the driver extending from his groin area aaaaaaaallllll the way down to the ground

"oh I get it" she said. :bounce:

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

5. This, coming from Underpants wife

does not surprise me. B-)

1) Does she post on DU?
2) Is her username Panties?

DBDB

[underpants]

7. HA!

No and n/a

[KurtNYC]

6. If little kids can play football/soccer/baseball and everything

else with 100s of crazed parents and other kids screaming at them then pro athletes should be able to do it.

That said, it seems appropriate and dramatic in golf but tennis has no excuse -- the crowd can't move?!

[MissHoneychurch]

8. what is wrong with standing in a library?

I do that every day. But I sure as hell don't watch Golf :P

[tjwmason]

10. The view in a library is better that the view watching golf.

[MissHoneychurch]

11. that is for sure

and a lot more interesting ;)

[Strawman]

12. Don't mind playing, but watching it is as exicting as looking at paint dry

[tinfoilinfor2005]

14. If we were given notice that our planet would be gone in one hour

I guarantee that the golf courses would be full of golfers and the bridges would be full of fishermen. Something about those two activities that makes them more addictive than heroin.

[GalleryGod]

16. In 1970 I played all 5 Courses at Pinehurst

I haven't played golf in 25 years (took up tennis instead) but I recall most of those holes while watching the US Open this year.

Golf=Drug:smoke:

[GalleryGod]

15. With all due respect, I've OFTEN read the same proposals for Tennis,too.

:think: Here's a bit of a rhyme: Don't like golf, Turn it Off.



FWIW: I think NASCAR Racing is "icepick in ear" boring.

Hence, I propose:
:wtf: Let's have the folks throw debris on to the track as the corporate chariots go round and round?

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. I was thinking the same thing during the US Open! Except baseball fans.

"you call that a drive?! You fucking suck, Goosen!! My grandmother can hit better than that!"

"That's a fucking BULLSHIT CALL!! BOOOOOOOOOOOO!! FUCK YOU Refs! Hey, does the shit go all the way to the top of your head, or just up to your neck?"

I'd fucking love to see that.

They should also let the fans drink all the beer they want, and throw it on the players if they can get close enough.