I hate Golf

[Darkwind]

Most people think I hate sports, cause I have my little tantrums about how corrupt they are.

Sports themselves are fine and dandy! Awesome thing to get outside and play a game with your friends!
The problems I have are the corrupt rules and legislation in favor of putting people who play with their balls, unpon pedistals, and the heinous amounts they get paid to play with a fucking ball!!! THAT I have problems with!!

^^^ Roots for a shit team,

 

[evenflow1969]

Have not played in a while. Getting a charter business going. I am on the water during golf season. Another year or two I will go south for the winter and pick it back up. Will be interesting to see how hard it is to relearn. I think I will be back in the seventies pretty quickly but we will find out. I have alot of good drills to run. It will be ok.

 

[miketx]

I used to play but was never good at it. I don't think I ever shot less than 100. I enjoyed it but gave it up.

 

[occupied]

The part I hate most is where I have to hit the ball through the fiberglass dinosaur.

 

[MarathonMike]

Yet....


There is always, that one shot that is so effin beautiful.... That it sticks with you and makes you want to do another round.

Evil, evil game. I wish I could quit her. hehe

Yep, a birdie on 18 will make you forget about the woes of the other 17!

 

[miketx]

Yep, a birdie on 18 will make you forget about the woes of the other 17!

We were teeing off and someone asked what I was aiming to do on this hole. I was teeing off and said, "I'm gonna hit a line drive 250 yards down the fairway, right in front of the green." I did. They were in awe. I couldn't make another shot all day.

 

[MarathonMike]

We were teeing off and someone asked what I was aiming to do on this hole. I was teeing off and said, "I'm gonna hit a line drive 250 yards down the fairway, right in front of the green." I did. They were in awe. I couldn't make another shot all day.

You did it backwards, your supposed to save the best for last! You had nowhere to go but downhill. Been there done that about a hundred times!

 

[Lastamender]

I took up the game when I was 50 years old. It is virtually impossible for an adult to learn the game and play it well. This is because of the phenomenon of "muscle memory," which phenomenon cannot occur after age 16 or so. And the golf swing is so unnatural that unless it is embedded in muscle memory, it cannot be learned at all. A million repetitions are a waste of time, because every single one of them is different, and might be totally "wrong."

"Keep your head steady, lock your elbow, rotate your wrists, turn your shoulders..." The instruction never ends. with every swing the golf coach points out another "defect" in the pathetic player's swing. You can practice until your hands fall off but muscle memory never happens. Go out the next morning and hit some balls, and you might as well have taken a nap yesterday, for all the good those repetitions have made.

But the fact is, even the worst players hit an occasional good shot...MAYBE I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT!

Forget about it. You will never get it right consistently. It isn't possible.

The guys I play with never practice. Never stretch. Never read an article, watch a YouTube video, get a lesson, videotape themselves, or spend time on the putting green. I do all of that, and we suck equally. It makes no difference.

For those who are familiar with Behavioral Psychology (i.e., B.F. Skinner), the addictive nature of golf should be obvious. The specific phenomenon is "intermittent reinforcement." It is the most powerful psychological addiction known to Man, and it has been shown to get pigeons to peck at a button thousands of times in the hope (anthropomorphistically speaking) of getting a single kernel of food.

Those random good shots - and they are random, not a manifestation of learned behavior - are what keeps golfers coming back to a game that generates more anger and frustration than a wayward daughter.

Bottom line: I cannot reconcile myself to how badly I suck, after 23 years of trying. If you don't golf, keep it up.

My father was a very well educated professional. He broke every one of his golf clubs in half because he could not break 100. He was also human.

 

[deannalw]

Yeah, but hey, you had a nice stroll through some lovely scenery while doing it.

LOL!

I must confess, twas a putt-putt course.

 

[Darkwind]

LOL!

I must confess, twas a putt-putt course.

I am so disillusioned!

 

[Manonthestreet]

Have a customer who took his young daughter....early gradeschoolish to the club one day, gave her a driver and then went about his prep for his game. Turns around and there is a crowd around her who then want to know who her coach is so they can get their kid lined up with him. Tells em its the first time she's had a club in her hand and she was driving like a pro. She was on the Jr circuit then gotta be on on SR high one now. She was doing all that with a bad eye which they had corrected. Turns out she has perfect hand eye coordination. Did the same in Tennis.....just wanted to play cause her friends did so mom took her to practice, apologized to coach who didnt mind, said he'd eval her and tell her where to start her. Mom comes to pick her up and coach is begging her to let her play on his traveling team.

 

[Winco]

You know why they named it GOLF........
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[otto105]

You have the right attitude toward golf

Go out, have a good time, only remember your good shots and go drinking afterwards

I'm a 5 HCP.

 

[rightwinger]

I'm a 5 HCP.

I can break 100

 

[miketx]

Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.

 

[MarathonMike]

My father was a very well educated professional. He broke every one of his golf clubs in half because he could not break 100. He was also human.

Golf will totally mess with your mind! LOL

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I used to play a little.
Now I live on the 6th fairway and have for the last 16 years....and I've never played the course.
Instead me and my brother would go to the pro shop and rent a golf cart then follow the hot girl driving the drink cart and get smashed.
The first time we did she asked where are your golf clubs....we answered with the obvious.
We're not here to play golf we just want to ride around and get drunk. After that we became the best of friends and she cracked up everytime she saw us trying to catch her.

 

[Moonglow]

I sold my clubs and bought a Nintendo NES and played golf on it.

 

[Leo123]

When I was a kid I used to caddy for my dad. He was a decent golfer but never a professional. I got to know the best club for the particular hole and several golf courses. His friends would always ask me to caddy for them. That being said, I was and still am a TERRIBLE golfer. It is a very difficult game to play.

I have also been a musician (guitar) for 40+ years and I see parallels to golf in that the more you learn, the more there is to learn. Also, playing guitar requires muscle memory but, it doesn't include 'whole body' muscle memory like golf.

 

[Oddball]

It's not for everybody which is part of the charm. The problem is, most golf instruction is taught completely backwards, even by "world class" teachers.

Golf is played BELOW THE WAIST. If you learn the proper positions/motions for your legs and hips everything above the waist will be instinctive. Hogan used to say "the secret is in the dirt" which translates to "the game is played from the feet up".

Enjoy the journey. I played with a retired general today that was in charge of hanging Saddam in Baghdad. He told me the story of the hangman making a special knot so he would choke to death instead of instantly breaking his neck. He did this because Saddam had killed his family with nerve gas. That's 1 story out of 40 years of playing golf. I wouldn't trade it for the world.

I play a 2-iron...That oughtta tell you something.