Golf's not boring - Other sports are!

[Maninblack4612]

A current thread asks whether you get bored playing the same course all the time. I've played the same course now for 58 years, minus 6 years when I didn't play when the kids were young. I can honestly say I never tire if it. It's exposed to the wind & you get event different challenge every time you play. That's the beauty of the game. I was fairly good at tenpin bowling when I was young &, after a long time not playing, decided to join a mate playing in a league. It was so boring I couldn't wait for the season to end. It was boring for me but, for the better players, it must be even more mind numbing, effectively playing the same shot & getting the same result most of the time. And, after scoring the maximum once, what then? Nobody has ever gone round a golf course in the minimum score.

During my 58 years I have always driven / ridden my bike up the same road on the way to the course. I calculated the other day that I must have travelled that route over 7,500 times, the car knows the way by itself & I sometimes find myself on autopilot going that way when I intended to go somewhere else on the same route.

I can't think of a more enjoyably game. A minimum of one participant required, can be played well into old age, the best game to be played off handicap, allowing an oldie to beat a young whipper snapper. A game where you can have a pleasant conversation while playing it, try doing that during a game of squash!

 

[RollinThunder]

I agree that it's a hell of a game. Like said, even at the same course, every round is different. I've played and still play many sports, and none have the same effect as golf. Golf always poses a challenge for any player, whether you're a scratch player or 28 handicapper, and I think that's the beauty. The unpredictability is just brilliant.

 

[lex!]

Great post. I fully agree. A friend of mine gets up every morning at 5am to go for a run. How utterly boring is that?

 

[richart]

Great post. I fully agree. A friend of mine gets up every morning at 5am to go for a run. How utterly boring is that?

Depends where he is running too. If it is round to his mistress I would say that was quite exciting.:thup:

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

can be boring to watch though

 

[Doon frae Troon]

As a youth I played Rugby and football and was also decent at athletics and gymnastics.
Golf took over aged 15 and I stopped playing other sports apart from the odd game of fitba.
I always fancied bowls, even as a young lad, and finally took it up last year aged 67, having retired from golf.

Bowls is probably many folks idea of a really boring sport but I have found it quite exciting.
Started playing club competitions this year and did OK, lost all my singles in the first round but in a couple of matches was up on goodish players. A game can change so quickly, unlike golf.

 

[lex!]

Depends where he is running too. If it is round to his mistress I would say that was quite exciting.:thup:

He's a she !

 

[Tongo]

Yep, one of the things i like about golf is the variation involved. Yeah, the tee shots maybe fairly similar if you play the same course twice but from there on it wont be.

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

can be boring to watch though

Not if you have money on it.

 

[Dave3498]

Great post. I agree with it all. Thanks.

 

[MashieNiblick]

I can't think of a more enjoyably game. A minimum of one participant required, can be played well into old age, the best game to be played off handicap, allowing an oldie to beat a young whipper snapper. A game where you can have a pleasant conversation while playing,

Agree. Pretty much what my dad told me when getting me into the game. He also said you've always got your own ball to play and you are always master of your own score; no waiting for a pass, or a chance to bat or bowl, or sitting watching someone else making a 100 break, or getting bowled by a "jaffa". Also played on the best playing field you can imagine and every one different. He played just about every sport under the sun and had no doubt the golf was the best.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Played a number of team sports where you can sometimes hide when you're having an off day. On the golf course there is nowhere to hide. I love the challenge

 

[Hobbit]

I've enjoyed many sports, most to a very decent level. Unfortunately, way past being able to play 99% to anything like the level I could - can't see me tackling the Mike Slemen's of the modern game. Bizarrely still able to play golf to a decent level, and remain competitive with players 40yrs my junior, and even more so with the h'cap system.

But what about the scenary we get at so many courses...? Play some of the highland courses like Braemar, especially early in the summer, and you get to share it with loads of wild deer whilst a Golden Eagles soars above.