• @Godless_Nematode
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    152 years ago

    It’s sad that there were 111 golf courses in China to close. Around 390 more to go.

  • @HaSch@lemmygrad.ml
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    Golf is a “sport” that literally requires no athletic qualities from its players, and barely any skills at all, even if 90 percent of it weren’t driving a clown car across an artificial steppe. Except for the fact that the hole is on the other side of the observable universe for some reason, the only obstacles golf “players” will ever face are water holes and sand pits, and even then they just start with a new ball. If minigolf were just miniature-sized golf, everyone who isn’t cross-eyed and knows the rules would always get holes-in-one. Then there are like twenty different clubs to hit the fucking ball, and they gaslight each other into thinking that picking the right one is some kind of art form like with wine tasting, but at least with wine tasting you eventually transition into getting sloshed. Also, there is no game so easy to cheat as golf, because instead of an independent jury or an arbitrator, you keep your own fucking score card. You know, unless it’s broadcast on TV. At 4:30 in the morning. On an obscure channel with French commentary. With an audience of either stoners or fresh divorcees in their late 40s who just ate an entire bucket of strawberry ice cream. Because it’s not a real sport. Or a game, for that matter.

    • @wabooti
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      82 years ago

      please tell me this is a copypasta, please.

    • Muad'Dibber
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      122 years ago

      Hell yeah. I can’t think of any sport more bourgeois than golf… waste of land, so mugh acreage required they need to use vehicles to chase after the ball, expensive equipment, supports only one player at a time, only accessible for the rich, largely an exclusive membership club sport.

      Appropriate all the land for other uses and leave up a mini golf course that takes up .01% of the same land.

  • @biohazardous@lemmygrad.ml
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    112 years ago

    golf is a sport that i guess and makes sense if you live in sparcely populated grassy hills to be outside and have a walk on nice days but the moment you need to take space away from other things it gets absurd really fast

  • @Leninismydad@lemmygrad.ml
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    62 years ago

    As someone who loves golf (my one seriously bougie interest, I grew up next door to a golf course and worked at one for my first job) tear those golf fields down and build homes and parks.

    I use an indoor virtual golf place to get my driving fix in and a putt course for putting. It’s literally the same with less bugs.

    Also I might add it is very likely golf was first invented in China it was called Chuiwan. The British learned about it during trade and claimed it was their invention. So even Golf was stolen 🙄