What's more important?

[Imurg]

Perhaps he's playing hockey.

Why would he be?
Its a plastic golf club, he's hitting it into a hole...bears little resemblance to hockey..

 

[rulefan]

So he knows it has to go in a hole. Isn't that a rule of the game he is playing?
Who told him that? He wasn't born with that innate knowledge.

 

[fundy]

So he knows it has to go in a hole. Isn't that a rule of the game he is playing?
Who told him that? He wasn't born with that innate knowledge.

for his sake hopefully not some rule stickler who thinks rules are more important than him playing the game and having fun

 

[Deleted member 15344]

for his sake hopefully not some rule stickler who thinks rules are more important than him playing the game and having fun

A clue is in the username
a fan of the rules as opposed to the sport

 

[fundy]

A clue is in the username
a fan of the rules as opposed to the sport

couldnt wait to piss on the nomads getting handicaps parade earlier either ?????

 

[Imurg]

So he knows it has to go in a hole. Isn't that a rule of the game he is playing?
Who told him that? He wasn't born with that innate knowledge.

It's not a rule of the game, it's the object of the game.
I think you're over-thinking things..

 

[KenL]

But what is the game? Describe it.

I see your point. But, in a friendly knock with pals not every rule has to be followed.
Just drop another ball, kick it out the rough, take it away etc.

 

[theoneandonly]

I see your point. But, in a friendly knock with pals not every rule has to be followed.
Just drop another ball, kick it out the rough, take it away etc.

Kick it out the rough ? that's gotta be trolling right? ?.

 

[rulefan]

for his sake hopefully not some rule stickler who thinks rules are more important than him playing the game and having fun

Assuming you meant me, I have never said rules are more important than the game.

 

[fundy]

Assuming you meant me, I have never said rules are more important than the game.

No youve said there is no game without the rules thats even worse!

 

[rulefan]

A clue is in the username
a fan of the rules as opposed to the sport

Although I may be a fan of rules I am also a fan of any sport or game I get involved in. But rules help when we are purporting to be playing the same game.
Why do you suggest I am not a fan of this particular sport. You don't even know me. I chose the name because I initially joined because of the Rules of Golf forum.

 

[rulefan]

No youve said there is no game without the rules thats even worse!

How do you answer old conundrum about the chicken and egg? Surely this was only a mock/joke academic exercise.

Don't unanswerable questions generate a lot of unwarranted heat when people start taking them seriously

 

[fundy]

How do you answer old conundrum about the chicken and egg? Surely this was only a mock/joke academic exercise.

Don't unanswerable questions generate a lot of unwarranted heat when people start taking them seriously

yeah you were joking, of course you were crack on

 

[rulefan]

yeah you were joking, of course you were crack on

No just a minor intellectual exercise. I'm only serious when it's important.

 

[KenL]

Kick it out the rough ? that's gotta be trolling right? ?.

No! When trying to help new golfers or when not keeping a score what's the problem?

 

[KenL]

No youve said there is no game without the rules thats even worse!

fundy by name, no fundy by nature. ?

 

[Liverbirdie]

Why would he be?
Its a plastic golf club, he's hitting it into a hole...bears little resemblance to hockey..

If only we had some died-in-the-wool hockey officianadoes on here.....

 

[IanM]

I do know a guy who is a qualified referee, when you play with him its like having an evil version of John Paramor following you.

There's lots of quoting rules subsections and decisions if, god forbid, something happens. For example, even when you take a simple drop, correctly, you get the rule number spouted at you.

I know where he stands

 

[Canfordhacker]

The definition of game is "an activity that one engages in for amusement or fun". That is what you are doing for the pure fun and challenge of it whilst it evolves - which is the essence I think of Bob's argument. Once it stops being fun or a challenge it withers. If those elements remain then rules will be defined and give it structure. So to my mind you can play a game whilst it still evolves - and in fact we are still seeing that evolution 200 years later. It is no different to the first few times it happened, just a little more sophisticated.

 

[Tashyboy]

What came first the chicken or the egg. if you don’t get one, you don’t get the other.