Unpopular golfing opinions

[Smiffy]

Nine cigarettes during a round is not excessive

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Nine cigarettes during a round is not excessive

Are you talking 1 a hole in the current climate? ??

 

[Smiffy]

Are you talking 1 a hole in the current climate? ??

If need be

 

[richart]

Nine cigarettes during a round is not excessive

One for every blob ?

 

[Smiffy]

One for every blob ?

Might be
???

 

[Old Skier]

Most golfers don’t understand the handicap system be it the new one or the old one and don’t actually care.

 

[Old Skier]

The lower the handicap doesn’t necessarily equate to the better knowledge of the rules.

 

[MendieGK]

hybrids should be banned.

Most low handicappers view themselves as superior humans to double digit players.

we are ?

 

[NearHull]

The statement ‘I’ve never hit it that far before’ is not an excuse for not shouting.

or

The statement ‘ I’ve never it it that far before’ is an excuse for not shouting.

 

[Orikoru]

Anyone under 35 should still be playing football at weekends

I am... Lucky there's two days in a weekend.

 

[Orikoru]

It is very possible to enjoy and even improve at golf without having lessons.

Strict dress codes are archaic and from a bygone era when the aim was to keep poor people out.

Quite a lot of the rules of golf are illogical and unfair - and it's more important to enjoy your round than to punish someone for an innocuous misunderstanding of them that they gained no advantage from anyway.

 

[backwoodsman]

If, when putting, the ball hits the flag and ricochets out, then the player should just suck it up.

 

[Orikoru]

If, when putting, the ball hits the flag and ricochets out, then the player should just suck it up.

What other option do they have??

 

[chrisd]

I am... Lucky there's two days in a weekend.

And you should be playing football on both of them!

 

[Green Man]

Not having rakes and being unable to touch the flags due to COVID reasons is a joke. It can only be a risk if you rub your hands all over the flag/rake then immediately start licking your fingers.

I’m sure theres more risk at our club using the same 4 digits on the keycode entry to gain access to the locker rooms and toilets.

 

[Imurg]

What other option do they have??

Refers to another post in the thread where someone is of the opinion that if the ball ricochets off the pin it should count as holed..

 

[Orikoru]

And you should be playing football on both of them!

I tried that for one season and could hardly walk.

 

[Smiffy]

Strict dress codes are archaic and from a bygone era when the aim was to keep poor people out

Just how it should be.
Let them play darts or dominoes, the peasants.

 

[Orikoru]

Not having rakes and being unable to touch the flags due to COVID reasons is a joke. It can only be a risk if you rub your hands all over the flag/rake then immediately start licking your fingers.

I’m sure theres more risk at our club using the same 4 digits on the keycode entry to gain access to the locker rooms and toilets.

Not to disagree but I think they were just concessions that golf made in order to allow us to keep playing - not because they necessarily make a blind bit of difference.

 

[bluewolf]

The Masters is the most overblown, overhyped, oversold and utterly pretentious event in Golf and should be replaced as a Major by either the Australian Open or another event in Asia.......