I am not a golf fan. At all. I even sucked at putt-putt golf, so I never tried the real thing, even though a lot of my family is interested.
Screw that. I want to go to a sport where there's actual athleticism involved other than swinging a weird little fucked-up stick at a small stationary ball to get it in a gopher hole. Give me baseball, if you want something similar, except baseball is smarter, the players are better athletes than golfers could ever hope to be. Give me hockey, where you see actual skills with fucked-up sticks. Give me football; isn't that what this site's about? Hell, give me basketball, which I used to play when I was healthy or boccia/bocce, which I play now.
Anything but golf. I hate golf.
Wha...wha...wha...what the heck? lol
Give me football; isn't that what this site's about?
Just to mention, this is the "Off-Topic" section of the site...lol
Anyway, Memento. Go out to a golf driving range. Grab a club and try and hit a golf ball 300 yards. You will find when you can't even hit the ball, or only hit a grounder 30 feet, how physically demanding a golf swing is; how physically difficult it is to properly hit a golf ball.
I've done a lot of martial arts over the years, and football and baseball as a youth. I have found nothing more difficult than swinging a golf club
with success. It encompasses your entire body, which has to all work together. Everything is involved: head, shoulders, arms, wrists, hands, fingers, hips legs and feet. The amount of coordination that goes into a swing is insane. It's not just using the whole body, all those parts have to be in the proper position at different points in the swing as well. I have been taking golf lessons (lessons at the same course that held the LPGA, which is how I learned of the opportunity to go watch them play) every week since the first week of November. I am still not there yet after all those lessons.
It's like you get one thing working right in your swing, such as keeping your lead arm straight throughout the swing. Then you add something else, like getting your grip correct, like the angle of your club shaft, the position of your wrist, etc., etc., etc. It's like every time you try and improve something it f's up what you were previously getting done well. Again, I swear, it is the toughest single thing to master that I have ever tried because of the number of movements and precision needed to execute the swing effectively.
Then, after you are able to hit a ball long and straight, you have to learn how to hit ones that purposely hook left, or fade right, that have a high and a low trajectory, and control your swing to hit the ball a little further or little shorter depending on the distance needed for the shot. A golf swing is insane!
I'm having trouble expressing my thoughts into words here, so I hope my point is getting across. I think if you went out just one day and tried to hit a golf ball, you'd be amazed at how difficult and how physically demanding it is to do so. And, search YouTube for golf swing lessons. Watch just a 10 minute clip or two of a lesson and you will learn or get a feel for how much is involved to get a good swing. It may make you appreciate golf a little bit more.
When I watch other great golfers, like the PGA, they make it look so easy. But, I'm telling you, it takes a ton of work and extreme physical coordination to make it look that easy. Even the short shots, called chipping and pitching involve the whole body and require a ton of physical coordination.
And, if you learn a bit about golf, watching it can be very, very exciting at times. For example, you can have 6 golfers all within 1-2 strokes from each other with only 9 holes left to play. Every single shot counts. It's like a war to see who is going to execute under pressure and which golfers hit the bad shot and fail. Again, can be a very exciting watch.
Having said all that, football (NFL) is my lifelong favorite sport along with the Rams, which I think you already know that.
