jeez you don't have to sell it to me harder.
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We don't need healthcare as long as the rich can play golf.
only if the rich touched the grass they played on
Lived a few years in Aberdeen, the birthplace of golf.
over there it makes sense. That grass grows naturally, everyone has a golf court at a walking distance, fun sociable walk (about 9 to 18km of walking), carts are practically banned there. it isn't a rich hobby.
On a nice day you can see everyone golfing, even if it is a couple kids with a couple of clubs (no need for a whole set which you still have to carry).
It's a genuine people's sport.
Everywhere else? where you need lots of water and land to maintain, and it's only for rich cunts with golf carts? fuck that.
that makes a lot of sense. colonization and rich flaunting has the effect of transposing things to where they make no sense and requires destruction to make work at all. example that comes to my mind is how cheap concrete and steel construction being imposed on third world countries by its neocolonizers, places where its expensive to create and makes construction worse bc its not suitable for every environment. and the rich of third world countries picking glass metal generic skyscrapers to flaunt their wealth, constructing them in places where its horrible
That reminds me of when I was a kid and I and my family would play the home-made hybrid game "croquet golf" on our (very uneven) lawn. It was really fun. Essentially, it was golf rules with croquet equipment. My dad dug nine holes in our lawn for that game.
Honestly I look at golf as a different sport entirely here in the US. It's all about exclusive clubs, racist segregation, flagrant wasting of resources to benefit a tiny minority, and often using public funds to subsidize a shitty sport so rich people can pay less for their racist bullshit.
I do wonder how the average scotsman feels because your perspective from living there a few years doesn't really tell us the entire story, just your POV.
Karl Marx Capital Volume 2 page 420 "fuck them golfers."
Good. Golf is fucking stupid and requires huge amounts of space that could be used for parks instead
That's capitalist golf.
Good, ethical golf of the proletariat happens anywhere you can place a can and the worse the terrain, the better the game.
Virtual golf is a thing now. It's like a giant video game.
Basically, you hit a ball into a projection screen. It has fancy laser trackers that works out direction, distance and spin. You can even select to play famous courses anywhere in the world, where they'd never let you in, and you couldn't afford anyways.
Doesn't take much room at all. Indoors with all the creature comforts
Disc golf is superior
- low barrier to entry
- frequently free to play
- great use of public parks/land
- low upkeep
- way more interesting to watch
- environmentally friendly
- many discs made of recycled plastics
- not played by mostly stuck up assholes
On day one of my presidency I will abolish all forms of golf except mini. Don't vote for me but pls abolish golf
not that i dont agree, but boring games are allowed to exist. the issue is the racism, elitism, colonization of land, waste and abuse of water and resources
100%. Honestly, some of my favorite games are boring ass games.
If golf went inclusive and solar punk tomorrow, I still wouldn't play cuz I'm really bad at it. But I also would have no more complaints.
mini golf is where its at
We need Golf, but its Mini Golf.
Like, put some life sized Tyranosaur statues out in the middle of the fairway. Want to get on the green? Drive it 100 yards though the nostril of a giant fiberglass clown, or go around and chip through the sand traps full of spiders.
Could be, but everyone's opinion of what's boring is different.
Have you ever had to watch an American Football match? Besides very little actual foot on ball action (it was more like rugby but with lots of padding, fair enough, but at least change the name so it's not so misleading), they kept constantly stopping every 30 seconds or so to have a little meeting, and for their like... 3 or 4 referees to have a chat and move some flagpoles around.
It was SOOOOO boring! It went on for HOURS because they constantly would stop for little meetings, interrupting the flow of the action every time it started to maybe get slightly interesting.
The only saving grace was that the weather was nice, there was an easily accessible bar, and in the field behind the pitch there was a local radio controlled aircraft event, so while the players were milling about not playing - which again was so very boring and frequent - I could watch the cool remote controlled planes and stuff and have a pint.
Anyway, my point is, one person's ultimate excitement is another person's ultimate bore-fest.
They're all called "football" because the players are on foot. If they were mounted it would be polo.
Golf is actually so off-putting sometimes because have you seen the average enjoyer? It's like every frat guy, crypto bro and racist pool guys favorite hobby
I'm also convinced 90% of the players just want to walk around and drink outside.
The only person I know that play golf do it because he's in real state and doing golf is "good to meet clients and close businesses". He didn't even enjoy it, it's work meetings for him.
Whats wrong about walking around and drinking outside?
Golf courses can fight AI data centers for water
Communist golf is where everyone shares the same ball and has to dodge cowpats in the communal pasture as they play.
Anarchocommunist golf is where you spend the day trying to track down the golf clubs someone took from the communal tool shed without telling anyone.
And then of course the weirdest variant of all is capitalist golf, where it can only be played on scrupulously maintained private property and you have to pay like $1800 per year for access.
I've alienated many relatives by responding to things lie this with "LMAO that's exactly how a dumb shit republican thinks! Damn, I didn't know you could be this funny!" or something along those lines.
Oddly, they never seem to respond unless it's like 3 months later at a family gathering when they have had time to think of a reply...
Every golfer should be forced to use the same equipment. P2W bullshit ass game.
If someone wanted to turn all golf courses into community farms they would have my vote.
Wow, I thought I was sold with communism as is, but now you add the eradication of golf??
Honestly, I'd like to think there's a middle ground where we place golf courses in more ethically sound locations. Right now, a lot of courses are just gigantic resource sinks sitting on real-estate that could be put to better use.
Better to place then on land reclaimed from strip mining, cemeteries, or other low-productivity locations.
There's at least one course in my area that uses the income to help the surrounding nature. Plus they have strict rules regarding what areas you're allowed to go during bird breeding seasons
Arguably the worst part would be the large area of grass. But even that is mostly offset by them maintaining the somewhat "wild" spots between the courses and the area being grassy to begin with
They are also quite affordable, so it's not a snobby rich club. So it's basically a nice way for people to enjoy nature and walk around more
It's possible. Sadly the minority
I've never understood why golf couldn't have different terrain (in the way that tennis does). Wouldn't it make golf more interesting if you had to play on a clay course? I feel like this would make sense in places like Arizona. Adapt the sport to the environment.
Fun fact: Che played golf. Story goes that he taught Casto how to play because he was set to meet with Eisenhower and golf is where he did his diplomacy. Castro was looking for US support for the revolution. Nixon interceded and wound up putting Castro in the other group... which included the Russian Ambassador.
Oh no. Not the golf. Anything but that.

You know what I was just going to accept capitalism as is for the rest of my life but now I'm a radical leftist. Whoever made this meme took it just a step too far.
If you haven't seen George Carlin's bit on golfing, stop whatever you're doing and give it a watch.
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