You Hate Golf

Webb · Joined: Feb 17, 2003 Posts: 4271

How much can you hate golf on TV?

I can walk away from the TV for an hour, do something constructive, return, and the score might have changed by one shot (it's actually called a "stroke" but I don't want to go out of my way to invite crass comments).

But this weekend it's Tiger Woods (#1) vs. Vijay Singh (#2). As of the end of the day on Friday Tiger led Vijay by one shot. This is the one on one matchup we have waited for all year.

And as far as it being a boring sport, if you don't play it don't bother reading any further. Seriously, just stop right now. If you read any more I assume you want to hear my opinion on why golf is exciting.

Take a high scoring game like basketball. Two or three hours, maybe 100 points scored on each side, and if you're lucky it goes into overtime and one team wins by one or two points.

Now look at golf. Four 18 hole rounds over four days. Each round takes four hours to play - sixteen hours of play for each player.

Of course you don't watch all sixteen hours (I don't even watch sixteen hours), but then you come down to the final round on Sunday. By the time it comes on TV there are only two or three hours left (much like a basketball game, except that someone already has a two or three shot lead).

Now let's translate basketball "points" into golf "strokes". A basketball game, as we observed, is won with about 100 points with a margin of victory of about 5 points. A golf tournament is won with about 270 shots with a margin of victory of 1-3 shots. The margin of victory often comes down to the last two or three holes. And it's not just two teams, its 70 individuals.

If you don't like golf you should have taken my advice and stopped reading when I told you to. If you read this far you know why I think golf is more exciting than chess or watching paint dry.

I should have mentioned, televised golf is much better if you have an ample supply of alcoholic beverages.

Next installment - Golf playoffs! Extra holes equals more liquor!

MrMazel · Joined: Sep 17, 2003 Posts: 158

Webb,

You got my Vote!!

LPGA is playing here this weekend. Too bad Annika and Wie are not in the field.

I will be playing Columbia Edgewater the day after the tourney finishes with same pins.

Next week we have the Jeld Wen at my home club and things are heating up with the Shark in the field.

Cheers!!!

FormalDaHyde · Joined: Jan 02, 2005 Posts: 1511

Yawn!
Don't bother reading any further if you like golf

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To me watching golf on TV is relaxing (especially The Masters). Now for something really boring try NASCAR. A bunch of fast cars going around in circles. I would rather watch paint dry.

MrMazel · Joined: Sep 17, 2003 Posts: 158

:thumbup:

Webb · Joined: Feb 17, 2003 Posts: 4271

Please don't get me started on NASCAR v. Golf.

When I checked in to my local pub last week I had to watch 1/2 hour of NASCAR before they put golf on. It wasn't so much boring as I didn't understand it. I thought car racing was pretty much guys driving cars in a circle as fast as they could and whoever gets to the finish line first wins. Not so. They have varying levels of penalty flags and you're never sure who is really in the lead.

The lesson I have learned: Unless you are at a sports bar that has about 20 TV's don't expect to watch golf when NASCAR is on.

Second lesson, which I agree with, don't even ask about golf once the real NFL/NCAA season starts. The PGA Tour isn't stupid and they schedule really lame events after September, which they know no one will watch. The last event worth watching is the RyderCup/President's Cup in late September.