Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 28, 2019

Read the exceptions, Miss P!

The difference is that golfers only think they’re athletes.

No, no, running is like bowling.

I’ve never seen Robin Williams comment on running. I guess I never will now.

First football; now golf. Bowling might be next.

Running, to me, was like meditating. Very relaxing.

That is definitely an Asics stripe pattern on Plainwell’s running shoes.

To what extent would you recognize John Daly as an athlete? Or is he the rare exception, a non-athlete who had a knack for the game?

I have always been a good athlete, but I am a poor golfer (I still enjoy it). I have know quite a few people that are in the same boat. I will say I can’t think of any poor athletes that are good golfers.

One other advantage running has over golf: You can be snide about how superior you are.

Look, I find running, golf, and soccer boring as all get-out, and I’d never do any of them myself, but it’s ridiculously easy for me to avoid them. Meanwhile, lots of other people enjoy them. OK, more power to them. Glad they’re happy. Why do some people feel the need to get all judgmental about their choices? Nobody’s hurting anybody here, right? Live and let live, for Pete’s sake!

If he were talking to Frazz in this way it would even less funny, so I like this one.

The best thing about golf is that it lets you exercise and converse at the same time. That’s why presidents keep playing it.

When you’re golfing, the demons can catch up to you.

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I didn’t really set out to bash golf, partly because I don’t like to bash anything — it’s a little too easy (he says, passively aggressively bashing those cartoonists and writers who bash with abandon). Also, golf has its merits. Anything people do actively, outdoors, is good by me. And it’s nice to see a sport where the investment-in-facility to number-of-users is as bold a proposition as swimming pools.

But then the Detroit Free Press published a story on a prestigious golf course in northwestern Lower Michigan, perched high on a bluff over Lake Michigan, where it’s considered de rigueur at the 12th tee for golfers to take a break and launch golf balls into the water before resuming play. That shifted the balance for me, and I feel no guilt whatsoever about bashing golf for a day. Though I do feel like I screwed up by not working the word “entitled” in there somewhere.

You don’t have to worry about killing your child or somebody else with a golfball.

They’re alike in that I can do neither. Bad knees prevent running and, despite lessons and playing fairly regularly 15-20 years ago, I could never even get close to breaking 100.

If Bartolo Colon is an athlete then so am I and I play golf.

It also allows Miss Plainwell to look hot without too much scrutiny(which helps with Frazz, as his girlfriend is a faster runner).