IMO people who get into golf have petit bourgeois aspirations. Of course there are exceptions, but everyone I've met who's into golf is either PMC, petit bourgeois, or aspires to be.

As I grow older my hatred of golf grows stronger

Honestly I don't care about golf as much as my firm belief that every country club deserves to be burned to the ground.

Golf is a bourgeois "sport" and I'm tired of pretending it's not

Ive concluded that we are allowed to have the pieces golf (mini golf and driving ranges) but not the whole thing.

Golf is walking around shooting the shit with your friends, being outside, drinking, and enjoying the sun. Stripped of it's social and ecological implications i get it. You're just fucking around, being outside, being with friends. You've got a skill based game with lots of doodads you can build mastery in, or you can just say fuck it and hit the ball.

I think the appeal is similar to mini-golf, just on a macro scale.

Public courses in places where you're not fucking the water cycle by transporting water from far away are pretty cool.

Country club culture and having pristine grass in deserts suck, if hedge fund managers want to play a sport where they shut out the poors then they should stick to squash at expensive fitness clubs.

There's a way to do golf without all of the horrible things that often come attached to it. My local course is owned by an American Indian tribe, and the course is intermixed with a bunch of nature preserves that money from the course is used to maintain. In Scotland they prevent "country club culture" from arising by basically mandating that every golf course be affordable and open to the public. Stuff like that is cool, society has a vested interest in maintaining big green spaces and not every single one has to be a park, some of them can be sports fields and even golf courses, within reason and the desires of the community of course.

But as it currently exists in 90% of cases? To be honest I think rich people get off on how bad they can be for the local environment, water table, etc and on how they can be used to create and maintain regimes of discrimination and privilege.

It's funny because as I got older I enjoyed Bocce Ball more but miniature golf is still fun.

get wasted at a cheap local course and try to play

or sneak onto one at night

great fun

we only made it 4 holes before we lost all our balls

it's fun to smack a few balls as hard as you like on a range too, or set markers with your friends and see who can get the closest

none of us have ever played golf more than 5 times in our lives

What if instead of golf guys played wolf and they went out into the woods at night, howl for a while and then sleep in a big pile in a burrow?

Golf is evil. It's a climate-destroying bourgeois sport for porkies to talk about their unspeakable crimes far away from microphones while acting abusively towards caddies and servers.

Think of the millions of gallons of water used to keep this grass in Las Vegas green. All that water wasted and not a single ounce of edible vegetation comes from it.

all so that can get tipsy while trading stonks on their phone.

It's a way to casually compete with the fellas and and drink before noon on a Saturday without having to tell your wife/gf you are going to the bar at 9AM. My cousins who are union members golf, just at public courses instead of country clubs.

My brother sold both his motorcycles in order to afford to buy one of those golf simulators they have at the big sporting good places. He can go in his garage and hammer away into a screen. It also came with a computer program that allows you to download every course on the PGA tour. Him and his buddies play every weekend.

I think it isn't getting older, it rises with level of desire to be petite bourgeoisie.

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in a work situation, it's a way to network with people who come from money like skiing

I've never been to a big golf course but my dad would take me to this small pitch and put which was a lot of fun when the weather is nice.

It was a small place as well generally just normal meadow like grass and trees with some small patches of green and holes to hit the ball into. Nothing like the grandiose insults to nature like the rich people have.

Was £5 a go round and there were no golf carts cos it was all walkable like corner to corner in a minute or so. Also so many abandoned golf balls we grew quite the collection. Lose one in a bush and come back with 10.

Where does disc golf fall in all this

Golf is fun, low-effort sport to do an a nice sunny day.

It sucks that it requires so much land but it is fun as hell. Plus you can go putting at a mini-golf course and get a similar experience.

How about you golf down my balls

I don't know very many people that like golf but the few that I do know also look up to Andrew Tate so that should give you kind of an idea.

My opinion on golf, golfing and golfers is identical to what D-Fens says and does to that golfing asshole in Falling Down.

i'd love to have a day with the fellas, participating in low stakes competition, light exercise, talkin shit, gettin fresh air, having some drinks. waiting in line, paying a bunch of money to walk on grass, being bad at hitting a ball with a stick, wearing dockers and polos, being surrounded by nerds. i'd like the first sentence without the second sentence

Golfers deserve to be hunted on their country club lawns like foxes

The worse part is that golfers are pussies. They refuse to play in regional environments. No, it HAS to be grass. Go fuck yourself

I am open to the idea of communally owned natural links courses, as their impact doesn’t seem to be horrid - and they’d be rare:

Sir Walter Simpson, a 19th century Scottish philosopher who wrote the book “The Art of Golf” defines links as, “The grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren sandy soil from which the sea has retired in recent geological times. In their natural state links are covered with long, rank bent grass and gorse. Links are too barren for cultivation: but sheep, rabbits, geese and professionals pick up a precarious livelihood on them.”

Aside from that, I want to build communally owned Laser Tag on top of all existing golf courses

I enjoy golf, play maybe once a year on public courses. I would never call it a sport and would gladly trade all golf courses for public land or housing. But it is a treat I will occasionally indulge in.

Golf is cringe. The only fun activitity golf courses make easier is driving around drunk on a golf cart, which still isn't worth making them for.

There's regular golf and mini golf, but is there like a mid-sized one that's entirely 2 and 3 par chip holes? There should be.

I dislike golf, but I love driving ranges. Top Golf, shitty small ones with the dude in the fur suit, the one in the alley...somedays you need to blow off steam and hit some balls.

Fuck Golf as a sport. Its boring as fuck. Too much outdoor time hitting balls and getting stuck in the sand trap. Fucking hell.