Me time is needed. Except it can get expensive what with greens fees and the cost of all the balls one loses……. Instead, one could be WATCHING golf on TV and claim he was spending time at home with his family!
Golf was invented in Scotland, where the landscape is composed entirely of natural hazards. In a nation where the diet consists of sheep innards and oats there wasn’t a lot to do except fight the English and sports. Not everyone is strong enough to toss a caber. Golf happens.
From The Legend of Bagger Vance:Rannulph Junuh:You really love this game, don’t you?
Hardy Greaves:It’s the greatest game there is.
Rannulph Junuh:You really think so?
Hardy Greaves:Ask anybody. It’s fun. It’s hard and you stand out there on that green, green grass, and it’s just you and the ball and there ain’t nobody to beat up on but yourself; just like Mister Newnan keeps hittin’ himself with the golf club every time he gets angry. He’s broken his toe three times on account of it. It’s the only game I know that you can call a penalty on yourself, if you’re honest, which most people are. There just ain’t no other game like it.
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by [John Masefield, “Sea Fever,” 1902. Which sounds like much more fun than golf.
But I’ll do my sailing by re-reading the Horatio Hornblower series 1937-1962 [C.S. Forester] Lets me enjoy both the naval history of the late 1700’s and my family at the same time.
It’s outdoors. It’s exercise, if you do it right. It’s pretty much football for couch potatoes. If you got the time for golf, you got the good life. Embrace the suc.
At that age, the wife do not give respect and the grown up children’s don’t listen. What is wrong in getting some excercise and sunshine, aka vit D, for the body and soul, including the company of friends. I think this game rocks and was invented for the later phase of life.
I got a motorcycle instead…I can still get out and see some nice scenery, go out with my biker buddies, talk on our headsets, and go out for ice cream.
My father tried it at the age of 41 when he became the VP of an airline, thought it was required to do business. Dragged me along at the age of 19, not sure why. We both came to the same conclusion, it was an incredible waste of time. End of story.
One of the best feelings ever is hitting a ball 300 metres or so onto a green and seeing it plop in a tiny little hole at the end. Priceless.Walking down a crisp fairway at 7:00am when the air is crystal clear and the ducks and other birds have just woken up, similarly priceless.
sirbadger about 1 year ago
Cavemen swung clubs. Golf gives you a chance to be out in nature and swing a club.
HidariMak about 1 year ago
Well if they were at home, they could be watching golf instead, and that would be even worse.
Sanspareil about 1 year ago
Golf is boring, until you know how to do it!
I finally found, after years, the way to make the ball go where you wanted it to go!
Golf, then became a lot more fun!
Rayborg about 1 year ago
Me time is needed. Except it can get expensive what with greens fees and the cost of all the balls one loses……. Instead, one could be WATCHING golf on TV and claim he was spending time at home with his family!
C about 1 year ago
’duff said
Charliegirl Premium Member about 1 year ago
Sad.
lopaka about 1 year ago
Chasing a little white ball all over someoneʻs lawn. Surely there is something better.
John M about 1 year ago
JosephShriver about 1 year ago
I would rather ignore my family while I am at home with them
jmolay161 about 1 year ago
If you’re good enough, try LIV golf, the latest form of welfare for the rich.
keenanthelibrarian about 1 year ago
Aw .. what a cynical attitude. Cruel; cruel, but fair.
cabalonrye about 1 year ago
Which is why the term ‘golf widow’ was invented.
LawrenceS about 1 year ago
Golf was invented in Scotland, where the landscape is composed entirely of natural hazards. In a nation where the diet consists of sheep innards and oats there wasn’t a lot to do except fight the English and sports. Not everyone is strong enough to toss a caber. Golf happens.
FreyjaRN Premium Member about 1 year ago
It’s called golf because the other four-letter words are taken.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 1 year ago
I got a PS5 and have been playing PGA Tour on it. The greens drive me crazy. The grid and indicators are not very informative.
Ignatz Premium Member about 1 year ago
I think it’s popular because old guys can still play it.
boydjb47 about 1 year ago
From The Legend of Bagger Vance:Rannulph Junuh:You really love this game, don’t you?
Hardy Greaves:It’s the greatest game there is.
Rannulph Junuh:You really think so?
Hardy Greaves:Ask anybody. It’s fun. It’s hard and you stand out there on that green, green grass, and it’s just you and the ball and there ain’t nobody to beat up on but yourself; just like Mister Newnan keeps hittin’ himself with the golf club every time he gets angry. He’s broken his toe three times on account of it. It’s the only game I know that you can call a penalty on yourself, if you’re honest, which most people are. There just ain’t no other game like it.
sandpiper about 1 year ago
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by [John Masefield, “Sea Fever,” 1902. Which sounds like much more fun than golf.
But I’ll do my sailing by re-reading the Horatio Hornblower series 1937-1962 [C.S. Forester] Lets me enjoy both the naval history of the late 1700’s and my family at the same time.
wdgnas about 1 year ago
Iopaka: no there isn’t anything better, and stop calling me shirley…
garysmigs about 1 year ago
golf, going outside looking foolish!
johnjoyce about 1 year ago
Golf: invented by sadists, played by masochists.
I know, I know, I’ve posted this a couple times before. But I still think it is the truth.
The Lone Panda Kemo Sabe about 1 year ago
And Mom and the kids are glad to be rid of him, even if it’s only for a while.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 1 year ago
It’s outdoors. It’s exercise, if you do it right. It’s pretty much football for couch potatoes. If you got the time for golf, you got the good life. Embrace the suc.
ladykat about 1 year ago
Gold is a way to ruin a pleasant walk.
dflak about 1 year ago
If I want to walk over that much grass, I’ll mow my lawn.
Sir Bugsy about 1 year ago
Robin Williams said it best: https://youtu.be/LSXMS8ABAAU
andersjg Premium Member about 1 year ago
Gaelic profanity.
paranormal about 1 year ago
It was probably invented by a group of wives that wanted some time to their selves.
This reminds me of The Golf Game by Jeb and Cousin Easy (Find it on YouTube), but it veers off in a different tangent…
mistercatworks about 1 year ago
Early 20th Century aphorism variously attributed – “a good walk, spoiled”
preacherman about 1 year ago
Hey, for some, the family that golfs together, stays together.
liberalnlovinit about 1 year ago
…or governing the country…
yimhere about 1 year ago
How did he change trousers from panel 1 to 3?
mrwalker008 about 1 year ago
Nineteenth hole makes it all worthwhile.
hagarthehorrible about 1 year ago
At that age, the wife do not give respect and the grown up children’s don’t listen. What is wrong in getting some excercise and sunshine, aka vit D, for the body and soul, including the company of friends. I think this game rocks and was invented for the later phase of life.
Ed The Red Premium Member about 1 year ago
It’s about advertising: you aren’t spending the whole afternoon drinking with your friends — you’re playing golf.
Robert Miller Premium Member about 1 year ago
I got a motorcycle instead…I can still get out and see some nice scenery, go out with my biker buddies, talk on our headsets, and go out for ice cream.
willie_mctell about 1 year ago
“A good walk spoiled.”
PaulGoes about 1 year ago
I think Mark Twain once said that golf is a good walk spoiled
ron about 1 year ago
It was a great break from spending day-after-day in the country watching over a mob of sheep.
Curiosity Premium Member about 1 year ago
My father tried it at the age of 41 when he became the VP of an airline, thought it was required to do business. Dragged me along at the age of 19, not sure why. We both came to the same conclusion, it was an incredible waste of time. End of story.
aikidoshi about 1 year ago
One of the best feelings ever is hitting a ball 300 metres or so onto a green and seeing it plop in a tiny little hole at the end. Priceless.Walking down a crisp fairway at 7:00am when the air is crystal clear and the ducks and other birds have just woken up, similarly priceless.
Treedodger about 1 year ago
It’s a goof ball.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 1 year ago
I was at a paint-drying and grass-growing expo the other day when a golf match broke out, and everyone got bored and went home.
[Unnamed Reader - e476da] about 1 year ago
There is. Trap shooting.
198.23.5.11 about 1 year ago
The golf course closest to me has been taken over as a second home by Canadian Geese