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The Golf Thread.

Discussion in 'Other Sports' started by Dub13, Apr 10, 2016.

  1. babbsnads

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    Exactly.

    And I'm aiming for a role that decides which Irish counties get to keep their votes or not(I'm looking at you Kerry and Tipperary), so golf's status as a sport will be safe. You might have to worry though about me lobbying my colleagues to CPO a lot of the golf courses for housing.
     
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    I only watch the 4 x majors and the ryder cup so I'd be pretending if i knew what was and wasn't a good/great shot but watching that I just gave out a nervous laugh as i wasn't sure if something like that was the norm. It's only really today following experts opinions that I realised I had watched one of the greatest shots in that tournaments history. His other on 17 was unbelievable too. All the more reason to wonder how he makes some bizarrely poor decisions also. I suppose that's what makes him box office. Last night transcended golf imo. 25 years in the making and the first European to do it. Delighted for him.
     
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    I nearly think his second on the play off hole was better due to knowing where Rose ended up and the consequences of him not getting it inside Roses ball
     
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    If he was a proper athlete he would have been running around with the flag, lashing other lads out of the way with it. Instead he was just looking it up and down, lifting it every few minutes to swing it and then back to walking around carrying it
     
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    Unfair......as normally he would have made his caddy carry it, then had a conversation with him every 10 minutes about the best way to wave it.
     
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    Must have been carrying his own bag. I think its madness to call golf a hobby over a sport personally but to each their own.
     
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    There's actually a very interesting story about where Tiger Woods injuries came from(apart from the car crashes of course). I'll see if I can dig out the article later,but it was to do with the lengths he went to in order to try and resolve the issues he had after his father died,and the Navy Seal training he put himself through,not golf. But realistically,would he be the best example to use for this point? By all accounts he was practically living with a disability,yet still went out and won a major. Leaving aside my dislike for the man,it was an incredibly impressive achievement, but what does it say about the sport when that's possible?
     
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    That's tomorrow morning's coffee read sorted. Thanks.

    I'd be with you on the what is and isn't a sport take, if there wasn't thousands of years of evidence that practically every researched civilisation had sports which were skill based (mostly hunting and archery). Granted, most of the sports were physical, but it is interesting that they all also had a sport that catered to the less physical.
     
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    A mark of his genius I would put it down to and also focusing on a particular tournament and being primed for it rather than spreading himself a bit thinner with travel etc..
    Ronnie took a year off snooker and turned up and won the World Championships might be similar.
     
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    Definitely a mark of his genius,but Bobby Fischer was also a genius and chess isn't a sport. Snooker is a good comparison,which I do consider a sport.
     

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