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KeefG

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Times are a changing, golf is played by a different generation to that of Jack & his buddies. Look at the youth of today (jeeeez how old do i sound? lol) compared to the youth of then?

To go back to the football comparison, look at footballers from the 60's & 70's etc and their behaviour is a million times better than that of todays prima donna's.

I see Tigers act of controlled anger perfectly acceptable, however as i mentioned earlier that is all that can be accepted, Tiger is human afterall and not a soulless robot.

Monty's rants at sound technicians etc are all a bit OTT for me and is going that step too far, what Tiger, and probably hundreds more pro's do, is completely acceptable <u>in this day & age</u>

rubbish! it's accepting this as the norm that is making these behaviours so prevalent.

And you firmly believe that by not accepting this as the norm, which it is generally accepted as the norm, is going to make a blind bit of difference to society as a whole?

As i've already stated, times are a changing....
 

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Viscount, I agree, but only by 100% Someone once said that the children of today are badly behaved, have no respect for others and are scruffy and smelly.
That person was a 16th Century Monk.
Good manners and good behaviour dont change.
If we chose to allow bad behaviour and manners on the golf course, then I'm taking up carpet bowls. Is that still safe? ;)
 

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Ok look at it like this,

If a 14year old is playing golf and when ever he hits a bad shot he hits the ground with his club i find that acceptable. If he smashes something up like a marker or tree then thats bang out of order. Lets not forget tiger didnt wack the ground, he hit his club down into it.

Now surely the fact that youngsters are on the golf course in the first place rather than hanging around in a group outside the local budgens is good in itself?

I find this debate very intresting.
 

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I think it's largely an age thing.
If your over 45, you tend to agree, with me and Viscount.
under 40 agrees with Keef (Keith)?
40-45, aren't really sure but are fast approaching the 'Grumpy Old Man' syndrome and radio 2 :D
 

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I'm 25 and if i'm honest i am quiet immature. A fart still makes me laugh, If someone throws a club i laugh although only the first time.

Maybe it is an age thing, I sometimes hit my club into the ground if i have a bad shot... I dont have a short temper but I feel I need to release the anger somehow.
 

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I think it's largely an age thing.
If your over 45, you tend to agree, with me and Viscount.
under 40 agrees with Keef (Keith)?
40-45, aren't really sure but are fast approaching the 'Grumpy Old Man' syndrome and radio 2 :D

:D :D :D

As much as your post made me laugh (it is Keith btw) i think you may have a bloody good valid point fella.
 

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I think it's largely an age thing.
If your over 45, you tend to agree, with me and Viscount.
under 40 agrees with Keef (Keith)?
40-45, aren't really sure but are fast approaching the 'Grumpy Old Man' syndrome and radio 2 :D

Oh no Bob, you've confirmed what I already suspected. I'm 100% with you, but I'm in the midway group you identify! The "in this day and age" comment earlier was the one that I think distinguishes where people draw the line. I'm a firm believer that this is too easy a let out for those without the character to stand up for the right thing. But I'm a grumpy old man... :D

BTW, that looks harsher than I mean it too when I read it back.... :D
 

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So we're all agreed the "old farts" need to lighten up?

Just jokin, it would appear that this is the divide though.
 

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Yea i've got to say, i do it to try and take the attention off where my ball has ended up!

Lack of spine? Is that when you old boys get the yips?

I feel a Younguns vs Oldens forum meet coming on......

We can hit bad shots and smash our clubs on the floor, you lot can walk about in your plus fours muttering under your breath at us all :D

Maybe its because i'm starting to feel old so this is my way of feeling young still?
 

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Substitute Tiger for Monty, and suddenly the tone of the coverage changes 180°, THAT's what gets on my tits. It's the double standards involved in everything that tiger does.

have you ever heard Tiger rant & rave at a photographer saying "dont forget you're here because of me ok, remember that"?

Tiger & Monty's temperaments are two entirely different concepts!
Have you ever heard Monty eff on the course, or at all for that matter?
 

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Okay, I started this and yes I’m a grumpy old get. However, let me ask you this, how is hitting your club off the ground going to release anger. So I suggest, in order to move with the times….say another 20 years in the future, that the player smacks the caddy on the mouth when he hits one that’s not just quite 100%.

Come on, move with the times, all the kids do it. It's called caddy slappin. :rolleyes:
 

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Young-ones V Old ones meet.
You'll need to take us oldies to the meet as we'll forget the way and we dont understand sat navvies.
We'll need the following
Terry Wogan on the radio in the clubhouse
The bacon roll chewed for us and the coffee room temperature
A porta-loo every 3 holes
A caddy
A buggy for the back 9
Those rubber suction things that fit on to the end of the putter grip.
An extra 6 courtesy shots for our advancing dotage.

And in return, we'll teach you how to behave when your toys start to fall out of the cot and how to be deaf when it's your round :)
 

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Some interesting comments on this post. As one of the "boring old farts" I have to say that I do not think it acceptable for ANYONE to indulge in club throwing, tee bashing or any similar outburst of a lack of self control. Sure I get anoyed with myself when I play poorly, I tend to talk to myself and tell myself to get a grip or try better. I only ever threw a club once, as a 10 year old. A gentleman came over from an adjacent fairway and told me that this wasn't the way to play the game. I was so embarassed and now looking back I am so gratefull he took the time to come over and tell me off.

I remember my first work outing where a colleague threw a club, I was amazed that a grown man could be so stupid as to make a show of himself in that manner. Worse was when he had to go back to pick it up!

I have an 11 yr old daughter who we are trying to introduce to this great game. She gets frustrated and at time throws the odd tantrum at the range. Where did she get this from? It certainly didn't happen before she went on a school aranged trip to the range! She picked it up from her peers!

Just yesterday she was told to "do it properly or we go home" when at the range. And what was waiting for her later in the evening, yes the world no1 having a tantrum on the course. Whether we like it or not, our kids pick up a lot from watching alll sorts of things on the TV. This is just another bad trait that becomes absorbed when they sit down and watch the golf with us.

Oh by the way, she doesn't swing her putter about any more, amazing what a glancing blow to the ankle bone does for their behaviour pattern.
 

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Young-ones V Old ones meet.
You'll need to take us oldies to the meet as we'll forget the way and we dont understand sat navvies.
We'll need the following
Terry Wogan on the radio in the clubhouse
The bacon roll chewed for us and the coffee room temperature
A porta-loo every 3 holes
A caddy
A buggy for the back 9
Those rubber suction things that fit on to the end of the putter grip.
An extra 6 courtesy shots for our advancing dotage.

And in return, we'll teach you how to behave when your toys start to fall out of the cot and how to be deaf when it's your round :)

:D :D :D :D

Ok, you're on...just so long as we can do/have the following:

Wear trackie bottoms and tuck the bottoms into our socks.
All be provided with ipods with happy hardcore on (so we dont have to speak to you).
can wear our baseball caps back to front or tilted to the side.
wear said tracksuit bottoms under our arses showing off our underpants.
a drug dealer on every 3rd tee for our next fix.

Do we have a game?
 

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Caddy slapping sounds fun and for 10% of the earnings i bet a fair few people would still put their name forward. Would Jeev Milkha Singh have to get a male caddy? Surely he couldnt slap a women about on the course? thats not in the ettiquette.

Bob you'd also have to put us in our place in the bar when we start mis-behaving after our secondd pint of beer
 
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