I’ve never played golf, but I like watching it. How about you guys? Or talk about something else.
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I’ve never played golf, but I like watching it. How about you guys? Or talk about something else.
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Rook
I’d play golf but………. Look! Obama’s a Muslim!
Corner Stone
Glad you picked this one up at 6:00pm CST.
Corner Stone
Golf is hard.
Corner Stone
The Masters’ app on iPad for Amen Corner was kind of mind blowing.
pragmatism
I want to kick Jim nantz in the sack. Too schmaltzy. Plus he’s a bush worshiper.
Raven
How bout that DAWG!!!!!!
estamm
I prefer the sport of watching paint dry. Much more exciting.
Raven
@estamm: Yea, a 215 yd double eagle and playoff is a real snoozer.
Corner Stone
I think they should raffle off tickets for someone to get to clip that flowing mullet Bubba has. For charity, of course.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
I’ve heard that Augustans all get together, in any kind of weather, and they do The Camel Walk.
Raven
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): This putt goes in and they’ll be doin the Dawg Walk!
Clark Stooksbury
Never understood people watching or playing golf (other than putt putt, of course), but I love titles that reference lyrics.
Raven
Yikes!
Corner Stone
Ouch!!
gnomedad
I’ve golfed maybe twice on work outings. I sucked, of course, but watching golf on TV is rather abstract; hearing and seeing the ball whiz through the air was surprisingly visceral in person. I grokked the appeal more than I expected to.
Corner Stone
Honestly, could there be anything more perfect than a grown man named “Bubba” winning The Masters at Augusta National where they won’t allow any woman members?
Bubba. For God’s sake.
Corner Stone
These guys. Shit.
Corner Stone
@gnomedad: I think after trying to actually hit the ball a few times, the game on TV becomes a different thing.
Raven
His dad called him Bubba after Bubba Smith.
Raven
His wife is 6’4″
Raven
ARF!
Corner Stone
WTF??
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
Golf is to game like World of Warcraft is to literature.
@Raven: You’re absolutely right, that is boring as fuck. Now throw in a bunch of nasty sexism and racism and you have the whole golf experience.
FridayNext
@Corner Stone:
Even if I watched golf I likely wouldn’t watch it played at an openly misogynistic place like Augusta just out of principle. Is there another place in America that more symbolically stands for the old boys club that is the ruling 1% in this country?
Raven
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Raven:
Ahh, so Bubba’s a Georgia guy, huh?
Haven’t been following much. My local CBS affiliate doesn’t come in here. And even if it did, the Tigers have had my attention this weekend.
Raven
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Yea, played here his last 2 years.
Corner Stone
Ooooosstty!!
Raven
It’s boring, it’s sexist, the azalea’s already turned waaaaaaaaahhhhhh.
Keith
Except for not being able to play at a leisure pace, I absolutely love golf, even though I am terrible at it. It’s got some of the best scenery of any sport, isn’t cardio-intensive (unless you walk the course), and has relatively few rules.
Mike in NC
We live on a golf course but I’d register Republican before I picked up a frickin’ club.
Raven
HOW BOUT THAT DAWG !
And fuck all you whiny shits.
Corner Stone
“And his name is Bubba.”
Schlemizel
@estamm:
I’m with you.
My kids took me out figuring I’m of an age where golf should be as excited as I get. I actually out shot them! Maybe I should have started earlier. But watching other people play? Not really, thanks
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
@Raven: Wow, good comeback. You get that little gem from the boys at the clubhouse?
But hey, enjoy watching the Masters. Don’t let the fact that it’s run by an explicitly racist and sexist organization harsh on your enjoyment of your stupid little game.
I mean, it’s great that Augusta won’t allow women to join. That’s not a dark stain on the entire game at all. In fact, it’s better than way, because nobody wants their good clubs all covered in menstrual blood. Besides, its not like any woman could make it through 18 holes before having to stop and go shoe shopping, amirite?
Raven
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire: Tell your mama.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
@Raven: I would, but I’m at the country club and she’s not allowed here.
jl
I was extremely disappointed to learn that there is no evidence that Mark Twain ever said ‘Golf is the best way to spoil a good walk’.
For just this one case, I will just ignore the facts for the sake of humanity.
Playing golf sucks. I know, had some relatives who conned me into starting to learn it when I was a kid. Hilarity ensued for awhile.
I actually have watched shadows creep across a wall one afternoon, and have compared the value of that experience to watching and or playing golf. Golf loses by a mile.
burnspbesq
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire:
That’s some seriously weak shit. Did you actually pay money to take that How to Write Like Matt Taibbi course? If you did, you were defrauded.
Raven
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire: awww
Raven
And this sexist scumbag that won it and his wife adopted a 1 month old baby. Assholes.
Corner Stone
Put it on you ole’ hillbilly!!
Downpuppy
Sandy beaches drinking rum every night & talking golf?
No fucking way.
JPL
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire: Augusta is a private course and their members choose who to admit. The PGA is the organization that chooses to play there. Somehow is the PGA chose not to play there, Augusta might change their rules. Just my opinion.
Corner Stone
Golf is hard, fywp.
Raven
@Corner Stone: God, I enjoyed the whining since Thursday almost as much as the golf.
RossInDetroit
Me & Golf do not get along. Or rather I like the sport but did NOT like the other golfers. I took a course of lessons years ago with a girlfriend so we would have an outdoor activity in common. I did pretty well in the classes!
But the first few rounds we played as noobs, we were hustled along and harassed by groups behind us who wanted to play through, wanted us to go faster or just wished we would die in a fire for taking too many strokes. Like they were doing it against the clock for money or something.
One guy hit his drive, swinging for the green on a short hole, WHILE I WAS PUTTING. I picked up his ball, calmly walked down the fairway to the tee, handed it to him and said “I think this is yours. The next time you do that you’ll need a proctologist to find it.”
And that was pretty much the end of golf for me.
eemom
Dude. You finally post a decent lyric and ya gotta stick it in a fucking GOLF thread?
Very well then. None of these clueless sports-obsessed clowns is gonna do it any justice, so it falls to me to think Jamaica in the moonlight…
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
@Raven: Wow, he adopted a child? Wow, I was so wrong about Augusta, and golf in general, being dominated by sexists. Because those are two related ideas. Ayup.
The scales have fallen from my eyes. I now see that forbidding a woman from joining the club is not sexist at all. How silly of me to think otherwise.
Look, if you like golf, then play it. We all like odd things. Just don’t sit there and pretend that sexism isn’t rampant in the “sport”.
eemom
@Clark Stooksbury:
@Downpuppy:
Ah. Apologies, fellow 70s hipsters.
The REST of you suck.
EriktheRed
Never cared about golf when I was a kid and didn’t understand it. Now that I understand it a bit better, I still care not a fig for it.
I like baseball.
RossInDetroit
Two guys play 18 holes after work. They shower in the clubhouse and start to get dressed. Guy #1 reaches into his bag and starts putting on a red bra, garter belt, stockings, etc.
Guy #2: Woah! Since when do you wear that stuff?
Guy #1″ Since my wife found it in the back seat of my car.
Old joke, but I love that one.
Raven
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire: Go fuck yourself asshole, I’m not sitting her pretending anything, you don’t know a goddamn thing about me or what I think.
Fluke bucket
The double eagle was amazing but the shot bubba hit out of the pines was unbelievable
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
@Raven: I know that you’re taking “Augusta is a sexist institution” as a personal attack. I also know that you take “I don’t like golf” as a personal attack. Do you think it’s always a personal attack when someone disagrees with you? Do you think people are pointing out Augusta’s sexist idiocy just so they can tweak you about it?
It’s not all about you, you pompous jerk.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
OMG someone doesn’t like golf. THAT MAKES ME SO MAD GRRRRRR
Slowbama
I specifically came to this thread just to enjoy the predictable ineffectual pontification about the travesty of the thuggish Neanderthals at Augusta National and the ongoing criminal enterprise of the Southern white male hegemony that rules over us all, etc. Thanks for not disappointing me.
Fluke bucket
A Georgia boy named Bubba wins The Masters and heads explode. He is Risen!
Ruviana
@estamm: The best part of HGTV!
Raven
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire: you don’t know shit
Raven
The Shanghai Gesture is a killer.
Raven
The Shanghai Gesture is a killer.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
@Raven: No, you’re right. All those posts you made flipping your shit over the idea that people might not love golf as much as you in no way indicate that you’re the type of person to flip his shit over the idea that people might not love golf as much as you.
But hey, now you have Slowbama backing you up. That must feel good.
Corner Stone
Golf is fun. And frustrating. And devilishly addictive. I had to stop a few years back because I wanted to play better so I was at the range 4 nights a week, playing rounds twice a week, and practicing round the greens for a couple hours.
It was just too much.
I mean, I could also kick your ass at tennis, pool, darts, table tennis…pick it.
Not sure what all the haterz are about.
Raven
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire: I don’t give a fuck what “people” think and I don’t need anybody to back me up. It’s a stupid fucking blog.
eemom
Y’all need to chill out and listen to the song.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
@Raven: RAR I DON’T CARE GRRRR SEE HOW LITTLE I CARE RRRAAAARRRRR
Raven
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire: Listen schmuck, I can do this until Great Expectations comes on a 9.
grandpa john
I sense some confusion in the thread
1. Augusta is the name of a city in GA, The Augusta National Golf Course happens to be within the city limits. The city itself has nothing to do with the Clubs management or the running of the M asters.
2. Women golfers happen to have their own organization called the LPGA which establishes it own Tournament tour across the country and men don’t get to participate in it.
the to do about women is in relationship to membership, not who participates in the Masters tournament.
So for all critics I ask that you make sure that your are at least criticizing the correct people or organizations
Some Guy
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire:
Oh, leave poor little Raven alone. The other kids used to pick on him for liking golf.
It is okay, Raven. We still love you.
Violet
Congrats to Bubba on a great tournament and fantastic finish. That shot from the pine needles was amazing.
cmorenc
Golf’s a great game to play walking the course with a pull-cart on an uncrowded course where the fairways aren’t surrounded tee to green with housing developments, and you enjoy each good shot and good hole (and the occasional birdie) but don’t take it seriously enough to get upset with the bad shots and bad holes. I have a longtime friend I sometimes play with in that fashion, and along about the fifth hole we’ll find a secluded bench and get stoned and take the game even less seriously than the first five holes. It makes for a wonderful day.
The one allegedly “fancy” high-end famous course I’ve played that’s truly worth it is Pinehurst #2, which is remarkably unpretentious and playable for humble amateurs, easy to play most of the holes in no worse than bogey or double-bogey, but challenging to par more than a few holes, and gotta be a bit lucky to birdie kind of course. THEY LET WOMEN PLAY IT EVERY DAY, albeit most of the women are wives of Republicans, but so be it.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Raven: Did you read the joke about Jesus and St. Peter playing golf? It’s really, really funny. And I was a bit cranky about the azaleas. Hell of a playoff though.
shortstop
@Corner Stone:
I think they’re about honestly answering the question Doug posed: “I like watching golf; do you?” without taking the apparently gossamer-fragile fee-fees and ongoing anger management issues of a minority of golf lovers into account.
I love baseball. I mean, I really love it. I spent Easter Sunday afternoon at the ballpark and had a great time. I couldn’t care less, much less consider exploding in rage, when someone announces they think that’s a lame way to engage a few hours. I have nothing invested in other people’s opinions of the game or its shortcomings. Why would anyone about any sport?
feebog
Golf is about the only sport I can still play. Can’t bowl, due to a broken right wrist while in the Army. Can’t play softball anymore. So, it is golf or nothing, I choose golf. A bunch of us have a standing tee time at a little course in Santa Paula CA. Sometimes three of four of us show up, sometimes seven or eight. I value the time spent with my friends, several of whom are fellow Viet Nam vets.
It is a humbling game, and it keeps me active, so I will keep on playing as long as I can. And yes, Bubba’s shot out of the trees on the second hole of the playoff was one of the most amazing shots I’ver ever seen.
Violet
I have no idea why I can’t post about the ch a r ity music v i d eo that Bubba and his pro golf buddies made. FYWP isn’t letting me post about it.
Edit: It let me post! Here’s a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM2NocuEihw
Raven
@shortstop: gleefully
shortstop
@Violet: Ch a r ity is the new dic k-hardening d r u g. Something to do with Elizabeth Kucinich.
Raven
@shortstop: This is what the douchebag wrote:
“Wow, good comeback. You get that little gem from the boys at the clubhouse?
But hey, enjoy watching the Masters. Don’t let the fact that it’s run by an explicitly racist and sexist organization harsh on your enjoyment of your stupid little game.
I mean, it’s great that Augusta won’t allow women to join. That’s not a dark stain on the entire game at all. In fact, it’s better than way, because nobody wants their good clubs all covered in menstrual blood. Besides, its not like any woman could make it through 18 holes before having to stop and go shoe shopping, amirite?”
Now you tell me who “exploded in rage”?
Raven
and now, Great Expectations
g’night
Violet
@shortstop:
Thanks for the heads up. Didn’t know that one tripped the meter.
shortstop
@Violet: I see what you did there, young lady.
Corner Stone
@shortstop: I’m sure there’s an answer here. But it certainly isn’t to me.
I couldn’t care less if people hate golf, would rather watch paint dry, or think golfers themselves should be immolated by a space alien’s ray.
I, personally, try my hand at golf once in a while. I more often hit the pitching/chipping area because it suits my temperament better. And my pocketbook and available schedule.
But some of the responses here weren’t exactly honest in their response to what you consider DougJ’s question.
burnspbesq
@eemom:
Say what, now?
Rodney Crowell is a great writer and performer, but the closest he came to being hip was playing with James Burton in Emmylou Harris’ band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j4cu-MuLgc&ob=av2e
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
@Raven: Good Gad, you think that was “exploding in rage”?
You know what? I take it all back. I apologize for daring to make a golf joke where you could see it. I was under the impression that posters at BJ had some thick skin. I honestly didn’t realize just how much someone expressing their dislike of golf would hurt you.
I mean, I have golf playing friends, and when I crack golf jokes to them they laugh and zing me back. Apparently if it was you you’d just punch me in the face and scream about how awful I am.
Sorry for assuming you could take a fucking joke.
Corner Stone
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire: You and your golf hate have hurt me now. No cookies for you!
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
@Corner Stone: No cookies?
I love golf. It’s so much fun. Everyone knows the best sports involve driving around the playing field. It’s… it’s just fascinating… watching the… GAH keep your damn cookies.
KIlkee
@pragmatism: ‘Tis a fuckin’ game. And a hard one to master. Politics aside (ha ha!) when you can come close to playing it at the level of a freakin imbecile get back to me with your snark. Until then, Bubba is the man. +5 and a Yankee in weepin’ Bubba’s corner
KIlkee
@Corner Stone: Exactly. Assholes think it’s easy.
Steeplejack
Played a little golf in my younger days, but I didn’t like the high expense/equipment/scheduling factors. Too many other things to do that were much more accessible. I figured I could take it up again in my dotage.
A couple of years ago I got into the Tiger Woods PGA game for the Wii, which is very good. That revived my interest in watching the game on TV. And I find the Golf Channel good background video wallpaper when I’m working at home (the actual tournaments, not all the ancillary shows).
I enjoyed watching the Masters, although I was somewhat irritated that they didn’t let the Golf Channel show the early stuff and they held it all for ESPN (Thursday-Friday) and CBS (Saturday-Sunday). So we got too much “highlights and recap” and too much concentration on the dozen or so big-name golfers and leaders.
Oosthuizen’s albatross was amazing, and the playoff was a suitably dramatic finish.
Terry
Disc golf is the way to go (Frisbee golf). Much cheaper, almost free, and 18 holes only kills 90 minutes :)