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Is golf a sport?

Yes
27 (33.8%)
No
53 (66.3%)

Total Members Voted: 70

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Woofage

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Golf: sport or not
« on: 26 November, 2012, 08:55:29 pm »
Inspired by this post in the SPOTY 2012 thread:

Blimey!  That's a strong list.  I'm not sure who I'd vote for.

(Well, obv not the golf chap)

Is golf a sport or simply a good walk spoiled?
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Kim

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #1 on: 26 November, 2012, 08:55:59 pm »
Depends on whether there's a windmill...

Basil

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #2 on: 26 November, 2012, 08:59:04 pm »
Depends on whether there's a windmill...
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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #3 on: 26 November, 2012, 09:01:59 pm »
Actually, possibly to your surprise, I've voted yes.

It is a sport, but not one that I have any interest in whatsoever.

I mean, I'm even prepared to agree that the Falling Over And Crying game is a sport.
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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #4 on: 26 November, 2012, 09:10:25 pm »
Golf is a sport for the simple reason that it's something you do outside, often while being rained on, and I'm rubbish at it.

Gus

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #5 on: 26 November, 2012, 09:12:57 pm »
Depends on whether there's a windmill...

and vast amounts of alcohol.

Jaded

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #6 on: 26 November, 2012, 09:16:43 pm »
Golf played as it should is a sport.

Golf played by MAMIFCs isn't.
It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #7 on: 26 November, 2012, 09:16:59 pm »
Golf is a sport for the simple reason that it's something you do outside, often while being rained on, and I'm rubbish at it.

By that definition so are gardening, shopping and having a barbecue.

I don't think it is, but I think there are only five sports: running, swimming, cycling, rowing and cross-country skiing. The rest are just silly games or legalised thuggery.  ;)

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #8 on: 26 November, 2012, 09:21:46 pm »
But the silly games are the best ones.

(Except golf.)

((And anything invented at Eton))

Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #9 on: 26 November, 2012, 09:44:33 pm »
Golf has the potential to be a sport if it became more like Biathlon. It could be timed, with points awarded for less strikes of the ball. No caddies and the golfist has to carry all their own clubs, courses could be made longer and hillier. Brand it 'Ironman'.
Golf could be the new cycling. Make it like a sportive and charge £50 a round.

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #10 on: 26 November, 2012, 09:49:11 pm »
Golf played as it should is a sport.

Golf played by MAMIFCs isn't.
...Fair-isle Cardigans?
Flat Caps?
Fast Cars?
Furrowed Concentration?
Foreign Countries?
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #11 on: 26 November, 2012, 09:50:21 pm »
Inspired by this post in the SPOTY 2012 thread:

Blimey!  That's a strong list.  I'm not sure who I'd vote for.

(Well, obv not the golf chap)

Is golf a sport or simply a good walk spoiled?
Or an expensive way of playing marbles, according to GK Chesterton.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #12 on: 26 November, 2012, 10:03:57 pm »
Golf is about getting balls in holes and football is about getting balls in goals. Assuming nobody would say football isn't a sport, I don't see why golf isn't.

People decide for themselves what is or isn't a sport rather than take the BBC's word for it, so it's a pretty silly question really...
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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #13 on: 26 November, 2012, 10:06:42 pm »
Golf, snooker, darts and bowls are games, not sports. Motor-racing is a pastime.
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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #14 on: 26 November, 2012, 10:07:33 pm »
I'd say 'sport' requires a degree of physical exertion, requiring either strength or endurance or both.
Otherwise, it's a 'game'.
Either may require a degree of skill.

Where sex fits in, I couldn't possibly comment.

Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #15 on: 26 November, 2012, 10:09:26 pm »
sport/spôrt/
Noun:   
An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others.

Thats and, not or.

Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #16 on: 26 November, 2012, 10:10:37 pm »
By that definitaion, golf is a sport.
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Feanor

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #17 on: 26 November, 2012, 10:12:06 pm »
Where's the physical exertion?
Walking from the buggy to the green?

Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #18 on: 26 November, 2012, 10:14:22 pm »
Where's the physical exertion?
Walking from the buggy to the green?

Twatting the ball around the course, obviously. You could say "athletes" who take part in shot put, javelin, discus etc are not sports people if you like. Chucking something every now and again is no different to twatting something every now and again...
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Jaded

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #19 on: 26 November, 2012, 10:23:56 pm »
Golf played as it should is a sport.

Golf played by MAMIFCs isn't.
...Fair-isle Cardigans?
Flat Caps?
Fast Cars?
Furrowed Concentration?
Foreign Countries?

Funny Clothes.
It is simpler than it looks.

Jaded

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #20 on: 26 November, 2012, 10:24:35 pm »
Where's the physical exertion?
Walking from the buggy to the green?

Twatting the ball around the course, obviously. You could say "athletes" who take part in shot put, javelin, discus etc are not sports people if you like. Chucking something every now and again is no different to twatting something every now and again...

Quite.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #21 on: 26 November, 2012, 10:29:27 pm »
Golf played as it should is a sport.

Golf played by MAMIFCs isn't.
...Fair-isle Cardigans?
Flat Caps?
Fast Cars?
Furrowed Concentration?
Foreign Countries?

Funny Clothes.
Covers at least two of the above!

Also leaves cycling as a sport so long as you don't dress up for it.  ;D

I've voted yes, by the way.
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Gus

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #22 on: 26 November, 2012, 10:34:52 pm »
It's up to what culture you seem to have grown up in or adapted into.

I don't really see golf or cricket as sports, but handball  very much so.

I guess a lot of you see it the other way around.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #23 on: 26 November, 2012, 10:53:05 pm »
I don't see how handball could be considered anything other than a sport. It's just that most people in GB have probably never heard of it.
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Jaded

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Re: Golf: sport or not
« Reply #24 on: 26 November, 2012, 11:01:49 pm »
Handball is a foul.
It is simpler than it looks.