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    What is the fascination of golf

    In an email exchange, I having bemoaned the fact that I was off to work rather than the course, a good friend asked the following:

    "What is it about golf??? I’ve never understood – one of the things Mike and I had/have in common is a failure to comprehend it’s fascination!!!"

    I guess she thinks its a good walk spoiled. Obviously we don't, but in a single sentence what would your answer be. What is about golf that makes it so compelling? The friendships? The challenge?

    Let me know and I shall pass on our collective wisdom.
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    Re: What is the fascination of golf

    The object of the game is just too simple: A ball at various positions needs to find it's way to a single point. It is up to you to get it there. No one else, can help you. You are given some rules to follow and if you break any, you are penalized...possibly disqualified from continuing. Others can join in the challange, either as a friend or an adversary. You are able to keep score for your own gratification, or to prove who is better that day. Ultimately, your ability, imagination, temperament, focus and guile are tested and put on display for all to witness...even if along the way you know others are watching from the other tee, or from beyond this realm.

    You either like this or you don't.
    Last edited by GregJWillis; 04-21-2010, 01:36 PM.

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      Re: What is the fascination of golf

      Golf is the living embodiment of hope springing eternal - from the abject beginner who is sure he can hit the ball straight - and once he does, is compelled to try and do it again, to the lifer who's searching for it to 'all come together again' and go low.

      The first tee is full of promise, even a poor tee shot follows a second full of promise - of getting it close for an up and down, or a miraculous shot that finds the green. Even when you've played 18 - that next first tee holds all the same promise the last one did. It's a game that can only be played, never won, never beaten - it's a splendid metaphor for seeing just how good you can be.

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        Re: What is the fascination of golf

        Using just a single sentence, I think GregJWillis pretty much answered the question when he posted "the object of the game is just too simple.". Tough to top that one when you think about it.

        But to play along I might add this to the list. Golf is a journey from point "A" to point "B" with a lot of mental, and physical side trips involved.

        Golf in one sentence? Impossible. GJS

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        • #5
          Re: What is the fascination of golf

          What some think :

          It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf. ~Robert Lynd


          Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. ~A.A. Milne

          Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart. ~Arthur Daley

          Golf is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can't play it. ~Ted Ray, Golf - My Slice of Life, 1972

          Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her. ~Val Doonican

          Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic. ~Author Unknown

          It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. ~Bruce McCall

          They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. ~Gardner Dickinson

          Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ~William Wordsworth

          What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. ~Arnold Palmer


          The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate officers is golf. Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become. ~Author Unknown

          Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's. ~Grantland Rice

          Golf is life. If you can't take golf, you can't take life. ~Author Unknown

          Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom. ~Michael Green, The Art of Coarse Golf, 1967

          A passion, an obsession, a romance, a nice acquaintanceship with trees, sand, and water. ~Bob Ryan

          I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted. ~Author Unknown

          Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. ~Abba Eban

          One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something. ~Peter Jacobsen


          Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance. ~Alistair Cooke

          Golf is not just an exercise; it's an adventure, a romance... a Shakespeare play in which disaster and comedy are intertwined. ~Harold Segall

          There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing? ~Peter Andrews

          Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them. ~Jimmy DeMaret

          And Finally:

          Funny old game

          ~BrianW

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          • #6
            Re: What is the fascination of golf

            Originally posted by LowPost42 View Post
            Golf is the living embodiment of hope springing eternal - from the abject beginner who is sure he can hit the ball straight - and once he does, is compelled to try and do it again, to the lifer who's searching for it to 'all come together again' and go low.

            The first tee is full of promise, even a poor tee shot follows a second full of promise - of getting it close for an up and down, or a miraculous shot that finds the green. Even when you've played 18 - that next first tee holds all the same promise the last one did. It's a game that can only be played, never won, never beaten - it's a splendid metaphor for seeing just how good you can be.
            Very good explanation LowPost.

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            • #7
              Re: What is the fascination of golf

              Golf is everything I can't describe to someone that's never played.

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