Yeah what other sport lets its players use servants to carry their equipment and little electric cars to haul their fat asses between swings?
It’s not a sport, it’s a game, like darts.
Forget leveling the land, we do that for all kinds of dumb reasons, some of them even worse than golfing.
But what about the massive fresh water usage?
calling it a sport is a stretch.
I mean, there’s plenty of low-effort, high-accuracy sports. Pool, darts, bowling, curling, bocce, pétanque, archery, shooting… A lot of them have an old-man, alcohol-fueled vibe, not unrelatedly
Archery is NOT low-effort unless you’re playing around with low draw-strength bows.
Fair, that’s true of golf as well if you’re driving properly. I was thinking more along the lines of ‘won’t put you out of breath’.
Fair enough
Darts is a sport. Sporting is the act of doing an activity against an opponent. Gaming is basically a sport.
No, sporting is defined: Sport is a physical activity or game,[1] often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills.
So yes gaming is a sport, but no it is not simply an activity against an opponent.
Fair enough, I just made up my answer!
Wrong about the definition, right that golf can be called a sport.
Golf truly is a pathetically stupid snoozefest.
What bugs me is that there are driving ranges which includes all the actual swinging, but for some reason rich people don’t like something that isn’t exclusive.
What are you trying to say here?
There’s no difference between playing golf and hitting balls on a driving range?
Only rich people play golf?
A lot of people in this thread, just trotting the all their basic bits, sound like they’ve never even played golf.
Golf is bad because it’s incredibly wasteful of space to build and of resources, to maintain. Not because the game is bad.
As someone who’s worked in the industry for a long time in the past. Driving ranges are for practice. Courses are exceptionally harder, the actual game. And I do agree they waste resources. But in the end, minus the waste of water, at least they’re being kept as green spaces.
To be clear I used to work for the government in this regard. The spaces would’ve been cleared for commercial use otherwise.
While I do find golf pretty boring. I’d like our established courses to remain.
Calling them ‘green spaces’ is a bit of a stretch. For one, most golf ranges are privately owned, meaning that visitors have to be members. Second, the effort to keep the lawn regulation height means constant–and I mean constant–maintenance by a small army of groundskeepers.
A public green space should be: publicly accessible, free of flying hazards and motor vehicles, accessible for wheelchair and stroller use, and useable for community events free of charge.
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned the volume of agricultural weedkiller and fertilizer that golf courses go through. It doesn’t look like an environmental disaster, but it certainly is.
Yeah, the game is fine. It’s a long walk hitting stuff. Unbelievably wasteful for what it is though
it just comes naturally
Sport? Really?
