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- Gabberwok, on 02/26/2008, -0/+67The price is wrong, bitch!
- daivos, on 02/26/2008, -2/+37I agree with the article and then some. After playing through high school and college, and getting to about a 10 or 11 handicap, I gave up the game for a number of reasons. 1) I don't have the luxury that I can take off during the week to play, and playing on the weekends does take too much time away from family or other things I'd rather be doing. 2) Paying $45 - $60.00 for greens fees for very average golf courses is absurd. 3) Being out driven by a golfer with less skill just because they play with a $400.00 driver and $45.00 balls annoys me. 4) The practice time required to maintain skill in a seemingly pointless game. 5) Unlike most other competitions and other sports, I rarely came home from playing golf with the feeling that I truely had 'fun'.
- inactive, on 02/26/2008, -2/+28I understand why people who don't play golf would think that it's boring---in the same way that watching from 15 feet away as someone plays pinball might look boring. I used to think the same thing, but then I started playing it and it's actually very fun and challenging.
The problem is TIME....as the article points out. They just need 12-hole courses and spread out the tee times so that people can play without waiting on each other and get back home to hang with the kiddos! - KaJuN4, on 02/26/2008, -2/+25"Here's my idea for a sport. I knock a ball in a gopher hole. "Like pool?" ***** off pool, not with a straight stick, with a little ***** up stick. I whack a ball its goes in a gopher hole. "Oh you mean like croquet?" ***** croquet. I put the hole hundreds of yards away. Oh ***** of ya, "Oh like a bowling thing?" Not straight. I put ***** in the way. Like trees and bushes and high grass. So you can lose you ***** ball. And go hacking away with a ***** tire iron. Whacking away, and each time you miss you feel like you'll have a stroke. ***** that's what we'll call it, a stroke, cause each time you miss you feel like you're going to die. Oh great, oh and here's the better part this is brilliant. Right near the end I'll put a little flat piece with a little flag to give you ***** hope. But then I'll put a little pool and a sand box to ***** with your ball again. Ay, you'll be there cracking you ass, jacking away in the sand, "oh and you do this one time?" ***** no. 18 ***** times." Robin Williams is awesome once again!
- slvrbullet87, on 02/26/2008, -2/+20People dont play golf to be the next tiger woods, most people know they arent that good. That is like saying the guys at the rec center are trying to the next wilt chamberlin, or guys who play softball are trying to be the next nolan ryan.
- inactive, on 02/26/2008, -8/+25digg hates golf too? so far the only thing digg doesn't hate is super smash brothers
get lives people - waydee, on 02/26/2008, -0/+16Can someone tell Donald Trump please? he's been trying to destroy a protected site of scientific interest and beautiful dune system here in Scotland to build some golf resort monstrosity and I keep having to protest against the toupé'd bastard.
- adrenaline33, on 02/26/2008, -3/+19I think they nailed it on the head with the time and family factor. People just have too much ***** to do these days. Anyone who says it is because golf is boring is mistaking. Nothing better than spending a few hours under the trees sipping on beer. The attraction to golf has little to do with the actual sport.
- Search153, on 02/26/2008, -9/+24Golf: the perfect way to ruin a good walk.
- Torx, on 02/26/2008, -7/+20..because the old white men are dying off and becoming extinct.
- pinchduck, on 02/26/2008, -1/+12In the 80's, when I played a lot, you could play a round at a decent municipal course for $10. The "Premium" courses were charging between $60 and $100. Now all the courses think that they are Pebble Beach and the entry price is $60. That is way too damn much money for a few hours of screwing around. I've since taken up kayaking and mountain biking. A decent boat or bike costs about as much as a good set of clubs. Admittance to my local parks for riding or paddling is about $5, unless I get a season pass. Then the entrance fee is $20, and literally drops to pennies per visit. I'm more active, the sports are more fun, and I don't have to wonder about my budget. I feel for the golf course owners, I'm sure their costs have gone up, but there are too many cheap, fun alternatives to golf, IMHO.
- Tyrghast, on 02/26/2008, -4/+13who's to say it's stupid? golf takes a great deal more skill and know-how than many sports...
- slvrbullet87, on 02/26/2008, -1/+10You realise you can just play the front 9 right
- Grym11, on 02/26/2008, -1/+10I think that's part of it but I'm really surprised that nobody has mentioned the obvious: *Golf is not the status symbol it used to be.*
Anybody can be a golfer nowadays. It's not the secret code-word for old boys club that it used to be, and it probably won't help you in your career, which is why, in the past, a lot of people didn't mind spending the outrageous greens fees at some places--it was an investment of sorts.
Instead of golf, the truly rich are doing things like yachting and sailboating now. (Good luck trying to get in on that action without tens of thousands of dollars to spare. )
As an aside, I can't help but wonder if this change doesn't reflect the current economic trends within the U.S: a widening gap between the middle class and the ultra-rich to whom things like yachts and sailboats are trivial expenses. - 4LeggedtriPod, on 02/26/2008, -1/+9Sheesh dude. Did you forget your Prozac?
- mikehill33, on 02/26/2008, -0/+7***** you.
- argaen21, on 02/26/2008, -1/+7OLOLO GOLF IS DUMB AND BORING
- manicallday, on 02/26/2008, -4/+10It's something that I just don't think about. Before, golf was a sport that was required to learn in order to do business. Now I don't think that's the case. It's actually kinda of sad. I also associate the decline of golf with the growing trend of immaturity. People will not take the time to concentrate on a sport that develops concentration and skill. To walk around and think about nothing except a stick and a ball is meditative and healthy.
- phenom2k7, on 02/26/2008, -0/+6Time for Happy Gilmore 2.
- EBFoxbat, on 02/26/2008, -0/+6Yup. $36 Green's Fees plus a required $25 cart and even then it's cart-paths only (really River Bend, your fairways are fine, stop babying them) plus $20-40 for a half-way descent dozen balls. I'd love to drop $75 to go golfing and I do, it's just once or twice a year.
- betona, on 02/26/2008, -0/+6I have a different spin on the Time equation. It's not just the 4-5 hours to play a round. Everybody knows that you have to play a couple times a week for months (years?) to ever get any good at the game. So to ever really enjoy yourself and get good at golf, you really need to commit to that 5 hours a couple times a week from April to October and maybe, just maybe by the end of the season you won't suck too badly (but you definitely will still suck at it).
Me? I figure if I really work hard at it, one day I can work my way up to *****. But I don't have time - haven't swung a club in 2 years. - impei, on 02/26/2008, -0/+5It's because of golf piracy. Everyone knows that.
- fuzzynyanko, on 02/26/2008, -0/+5Someone once said that guys don't tend to play gold because they like it. They play golf to get themselves time for themselves away from the family
- revpjack, on 02/26/2008, -3/+8Yeah golf is pretty expensive, but I can't wait for the weather to get warmer to start playing again. It's pretty addictive once you start playing. Plus, you can drink beer the whole time, I'd rather be playing golf than sitting indoors on a nice weekend watching millionaires play football or baseball.
- cawpin, on 02/26/2008, -2/+7Well, you're getting screwed because that isn't normal.
- thedez, on 02/26/2008, -1/+5Because Tiger never loses and if you're 45 you're considered a rookie.
- lornefs, on 02/26/2008, -0/+4Actually, what's retarded is the bozo who insists on walking the course and takes 15 minutes to crisscross the fairway taking their 8 shots on a par 4.
- silentcollision, on 02/26/2008, -0/+4I don't know about all courses, but the front nine often costs the same as the full 18.
- cthellis, on 02/26/2008, -8/+12...because it's boring AND expensive?
- spacecheese, on 02/26/2008, -1/+5i hereby revoke your throne, and demote you back to netb8tor.
- insomniacal, on 02/26/2008, -0/+4Dugg for linking to the printer-friendly version. Thank you.
- BigPapi, on 02/26/2008, -0/+4Expense is probably an issue too. If you wanted to play tennis or basketball, all you need is a free public court very little equipment. For golf you need a whole set of clubs and a bag. And just to play on the course can run you anywhere from $20-$300, depending on where you want to play and for how long. If you do that every week, it adds up.
- PhilMoskowitz, on 02/26/2008, -1/+5I often times play 36 with friends. It's a long haul but we're youngish and the beer gets you through. I love the damn game to death. It's the only game you can love and hate at the same time. Hopefully this will usher in a buyers market and we can afford to go to the primer courses more often.
- DarkPhoen1x, on 02/26/2008, -2/+6I enjoy golf, it's just too expensive. As for boring, yes it is. It's not a sport that you watch and get all pumped up, or even play and get pumped up. It's meant to be relaxing, which it is, at least for me. Now if only they'd make it 5-10$ a game I'd be out there every weekend >.
- spyd3rweb, on 02/26/2008, -2/+6Why watch when you can go out and play it.
- dlm85, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3I think cost is biggest reason Americans are giving up golf. It is hard to justify the cost.
I used to enjoy golfing when I was able to walk the course. In the age of carts, you are constantly being rushed by idiots in carts.
It is much easier to sit in the basement and play 18 holes of Tiger Woods 2007. - osbjmg, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3Rangers are old bags, starters are old bags, and everyone gives you an attitude if you're not 50+ years old. They stack you up next to the other players like you're on a bus... I can never relax. It's a frustrating experience and that's before I even start playing!
- spacecheese, on 02/26/2008, -3/+6If they just developed golf courses into huge wacky mini golf ranges and strapped kegs to every cart, i'd be there every damn week.
- TheUndertoker, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3No, you are around pompous people. Golf is not a pompous game.
- thirteenthcor, on 02/26/2008, -2/+5IF they can just hold out, the baby boomers are on their way! Course with the way inflation is going, the only thing their SS check will be able to afford is the caddie.
Golf: hitting tiny balls with crooked sticks hundreds of yards away into gopher holes for hundreds of years. - SenorCardgage74, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas."
"What’s a looper?"
"A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dali Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? "Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga." So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know?" And he says, "Oh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me. Which is nice." - TheSeptimHeir, on 02/26/2008, -4/+7...Actually, it IS just because golf is boring.
- EBFoxbat, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3Many do.
- SouthsideIrish, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3I wish they only charged $36 green's fees. You might get that for 9 holes twilight, but not for anything during the day. If I want to go and do 18 holes, during the day, on a weekend it is $100+, with a cart. Way too much money.
- mikeopubco, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3Yeah, my "pretentious" ass that makes $36k a year has to compensate for status with all the rednecks that play on my municipal course. The irony is just how pretentious you sounded by posting that.
- mikehill33, on 02/26/2008, -0/+3This is actually nice. For those of us who do actually know how to unplug and prioritize life, this means the courses will be less crowded. SWEET!
- fxu1989, on 02/26/2008, -1/+3I thought men played golf to get away from their nagging wife.
- bugmenot47, on 02/26/2008, -3/+5the real reason: http://www.mywii.com.au/img/game/large/Tiger-Woods ...
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