Briggsy Posted March 1, 2007 Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 Is it just me that thinks this, or is golf just the most pointless "sport" ever? I can't see the point of spending hundreds of pounds on golf clubs, just to smack a tiny ball 300 yards - only to have to walk after it to fetch it again before you repeat the same process again. Pointless rating: 9/10 Fishing is even worse. People PAY to buy maggots and various other baits and then PAY to sit in the freezing cold all day to catch 6 fish that look the same, an old boot, and pneumonia - only to throw them all back in at the end of the day. They get all excited when they pull out a trout, and then even more excited when they pull out another identical looking trout 10 minutes later. The highlight of the day for them is............. catching another fecking trout that looked identical to the last two they caught. Exciting? I think not...... How people think that catching several identical fish is beyond me. I bet they wet themselves in excitement when they walk into a fish market and see hundreds of different varieties there all lined up neatly on trays. Pointless rating: 13/10 Anyway, random thread over. That is all.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 Agreed, both can piss you off aswell as opposed to I sp[ose the calming its meant to er induce or whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Kane Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 I haven't played golf for a few years now, but it is very enjoyable, nice setting, good laugh & good banter when you play. Fishing I don't get, but I can see why some (older people especially) would enjoy it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 agree on fishing - but golf can be a right laugh!! Me & my uni mates used to go down the local club in derby, on a red hot summers day and get absoloutly battered while playing, proepr good times - just laughing at each other and how s*** we were, lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neuro Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 I couldn't agree with Briggsy more, especially the fishing. The only slight satisfaction I would ever get out of fishing would be if I were on a desert island and, having a go out of sheer desperation, caught a shedload of salmon on my first attempt, which I then went on to barbeque the f*** out of for a most satisfying dinner. I don't like normal golf either, but I quite enjoy crazy golf... although it's a complete waste of time (but great when you fluke a hole-in-1 through smacking it too hard instead of carefully aiming into the dragon's mouth after getting past that drawbridge) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aza Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 Crazy golf or the driving range does me quite happily, that about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart F Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 I am a big fan of the golf. I play very occasionally with my younger brother who is a good player but I watch it as much as I can especially when Tiger Woods is taking part. I've been to the Open at Royal Troon in 2004 and St Andrews in 2005 and both times have been awesome. In 2004, it was nearing the end of the day when myself and my brother were deciding where was best to get a semi-decent view of the action at the 18th hole when two guys walked up to us, gave us their stand passes, said they had to leave and that we could have them. We were stunned. These passes cost around £500 for the week and we got them for nothing. The looks on the faces of some of the old yanks as we took our seats was priceless and that will be a moment I'll never forget. I'm heading to the Open at Carnoustie this year and I hope to go the Ryder Cup in the future as it brilliant to watch. Fishing however is not something I really have an interest in but sitting beside a Scottish loch on a late warm mid-summers evening does appeal to me so maybe I shall give it a try! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quadrant Posted March 4, 2007 Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 I love golf and fishing, although not when it's cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted March 4, 2007 Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 I play Golf and i love it. I can completely understand why people dont play it as they think its dull but when you get into it you get hooked. A friend of mine started playing two years and i couldnt believe it when he told me he had started. He tells me he can hit one good shot in a round of golf and that would be enough to spur him on for another six months. And thats the thing with golf; one good shot is all it takes to make you want to play and play and play. A similarity would be scoring a sweet free kick in football or hitting a six in cricket. Its such a finite sport though and i think thats why a lot of people give it up after a while. Its as frustrating as snooker! Normally anti-golf comments come from non-sporty people which is fine as they wouldnt understand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy Posted March 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 Normally anti-golf comments come from non-sporty people which is fine as they wouldnt understand I'm very sporty Before I did my knee's in, I played football almost every night of the week and, in the summer, it'd be cricket - sometimes both in the same day. I'm also a very keen kart racer (which I still do frequently now). I also like, and play, snooker - although I can see why people don't like that. Snoker is more of a thinking sport ratehr than an active sport. Golf just doesn't appeal to me in the slightest. Golf, snooker and darts are sports that require very little physical fitness - they're sports that fat people can play and then say to girls "oh yeah, i'm sporty" to sound cool, when actually, they're about as active as a snail with hamstring trouble. It might be a "sport" I try when i'm too old to play anything else, but at the moment, I stand by my comments that whacking a ball 300 yards, only to fetch it again seems rather pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted March 4, 2007 Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 hehe, that comment was there to guarantee a reply from you they're sports that fat people can play What a strange comment. You can play any sport if you're fat. Now if you said "you cant play golf if you have no arms" then that would've been a fair observation. Or maybe, "you cant play football if you're dead" that would've been a fair comment too. Golf isnt about athletic ability though so you dont have to be a blonde adonis to play it at an amateur level. Its different at the pro level mind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart F Posted March 4, 2007 Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 It might be a "sport" I try when i'm too old to play anything else, but at the moment, I stand by my comments that whacking a ball 300 yards, only to fetch it again seems rather pointless. But your not just hitting the ball to fetch it. You are looking to get it in the hole. It's just like hitting a 40 yard shot in Football, you are aiming to get it in the goal. In Snooker when you hit a long pot, you are aiming to pot it and so on... Golf is not as simple as hitting a 300 yard drive to fetch the ball! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted March 4, 2007 Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 Wii gofs enough ha ha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neuro Posted March 5, 2007 Report Share Posted March 5, 2007 ...snooker and darts are sports ...that fat people can play I play both of these, but I'm most probably the lankiest darts player you're ever likely to come across :mrgreen: A casual past-time, though - great fun to play but not too seriously. I hate golf but that's because I've never had the opportunity to play it properly... I know the old addage "don't knock it til you've tried it", but at the end of the day it's golf, not Liptonice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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