Golf is fun, low-effort sport to do an a nice sunny day.
It sucks that it requires so much land but it is fun as hell. Plus you can go putting at a mini-golf course and get a similar experience.
Public courses in places where you’re not fucking the water cycle by transporting water from far away are pretty cool.
Country club culture and having pristine grass in deserts suck, if hedge fund managers want to play a sport where they shut out the poors then they should stick to squash at expensive fitness clubs.
Golfers deserve to be hunted on their country club lawns like foxes
The worse part is that golfers are pussies. They refuse to play in regional environments. No, it HAS to be grass. Go fuck yourself
This picture looked so insane I thought it might be AI-generated; but no, this abomination is called the Mena House Oberoi Golf Club and it’s very real sadly.
There’s regular golf and mini golf, but is there like a mid-sized one that’s entirely 2 and 3 par chip holes? There should be.
Par 3 golf courses exist.
Most excellent
IMO people who get into golf have petit bourgeois aspirations. Of course there are exceptions, but everyone I’ve met who’s into golf is either PMC, petit bourgeois, or aspires to be.
Yeah when my mom signed me up for golf camp she said it was because successful men play golf and id need to do it to integrate.
Of course i sucked at it like i did every other sport so i ended up just using it as another excuse to do what i really like to do: work with younger kids. (I was assigned as a “peer mentor” by the directors but i was the only kid in that group that actually helped out with the younger kids.)
I got volunteering hours for my college aps from that peer mentor thing though so that was cool. Even if i ended up going to a sure thing i barely needed qualifications for and then flunked out, lol
Its fishing but for a slightly different demographic.
Ive concluded that we are allowed to have the pieces golf (mini golf and driving ranges) but not the whole thing.
Municipal courses in areas that can’t be used for other things is not a bad idea. Golfing can be nice if you’re doing it on a course that tries to use local flora and fauna and you’re basically just hiking and occasionally hitting a ball.
How about you golf down my balls
I enjoy golf, play maybe once a year on public courses. I would never call it a sport and would gladly trade all golf courses for public land or housing. But it is a treat I will occasionally indulge in.
It’s a way to casually compete with the fellas and and drink before noon on a Saturday without having to tell your wife/gf you are going to the bar at 9AM. My cousins who are union members golf, just at public courses instead of country clubs.
My opinion on golf, golfing and golfers is identical to what D-Fens says and does to that golfing asshole in Falling Down.
There’s a way to do golf without all of the horrible things that often come attached to it. My local course is owned by an American Indian tribe, and the course is intermixed with a bunch of nature preserves that money from the course is used to maintain. In Scotland they prevent “country club culture” from arising by basically mandating that every golf course be affordable and open to the public. Stuff like that is cool, society has a vested interest in maintaining big green spaces and not every single one has to be a park, some of them can be sports fields and even golf courses, within reason and the desires of the community of course.
But as it currently exists in 90% of cases? To be honest I think rich people get off on how bad they can be for the local environment, water table, etc and on how they can be used to create and maintain regimes of discrimination and privilege.
Idk, still seems pretty lame
Golf courses being owned by indigenous people doesn’t make golf cool, just like how casinos being owned by indigenous doesn’t make gambling cool
Golf courses being affordable still doesn’t help the fact such vast lands are reserved for only a few people to be using it at once
Minneapolis has one public municiple golf course and there’s a constant fight to keep it open.
:golf-flag-cool:
Honestly I don’t care about golf as much as my firm belief that every country club deserves to be burned to the ground.
As I grow older my hatred of golf grows stronger
I used to hate golf because it was boring and heralded the end of Saturday morning cartoons. Now I hate golf because it’s a waste of good land that could be a nice park, instead maybe a dozen rich guys discussing how they’re going to dump toxic waste in a river or whatever
