bobmac
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The game of golf
Or
The rules of golf
Some may say you can't have one without the other or can you?
Or
The rules of golf
Some may say you can't have one without the other or can you?
The game of golf
Or
The rules of golf
Some may say you can't have one without the other or can you?
The game of golf
Or
The rules of golf
Some may say you can't have one without the other or can you?
Or to put it another way "what game?"How can a game exist without at least one rule to begin to define it?
Or to put it another way "what game?"
Having said that you don't need rules in order to walk round a course and swing a club from time to time - rules are only really necessary to enable people to compete.
If you don't define any rules how do you know what the game is?Defiantly the game,if you don't have the game what use are the rules.
But what is the game? Describe it.In social golf, the game.
In comps, the rules.
You are with a friend. He presents you with a board you have never seen before together with a couple of cubes which have dots painted on each side.I'd say the game is more important. The rules are a prerequisite for standardised (read competitive) golf, but not enjoyment of the game.
Perhaps he's playing hockey or snooker with the 'wrong' end of the stick thing.Hitting a ball around a field until it goes in a hole
You can do that without rules
Once you begin to structure it - that's when you need rules.
Does a 5 year old, hitting a plastic ball with a plastic club on the local Rec, need rules?
They're still playing golf