5 – Golfers do not, as a general rule, get busted for drunk driving, shooting people at strip clubs, fighting with police or beating up another golfer in the locker room. How sick are you of the sports page being filled with more scandal and lawlessness then scores and statistics? I know it disgusts me.
6 – Golfers don’t use performance enhancing drugs. There may be a few, but as compared to any other sport I can think of that requires physical strength, golf has to be the one with the least offenders. Here is a case in point. When it was mentioned that golf might start steroid testing, every one of the sports major stars said “go for it, good idea”. Do you know why? Because they aren’t doing steroids. As long as Barry Bonds is still swinging a drug infested bat, I will never watch the Giants play baseball again. In fact, I have grown less and less interested in pro football for the same reason.
7 – The weather, the climate and the scenery are all generally quite pleasant with regard to the conditions that most professional golf tournaments are played in. In addition, the sport is one of the few that you can play until you are quite old. Your body is not ravaged nor is your ability lost once you hit a certain age. Golf can be played with three generations of family members in the same foursome!
8 – I can conduct business on the golf course. Phone calls, emails, meetings and more all happen with ease (albeit I wish I could get a round in once in awhile without these things). I can wear my work clothes and be somewhat productive all while getting away from my desk for a little exercise and fresh air.
9 – Golfers don’t do dances in the end zone. They don’t make fools of themselves when they win or perform. Golfers are generally a pretty humble bunch. While I enjoy the entertainment value that an occassional sports celebration provides, the simplicity of the tipped hat and and the nodded head has a class all it’s own.
10 – Golf is quite simply the most difficult sport I have ever played. Less then 1% of the worldwide population can play par golf. I know a lot of good athletes that are not good golfers. I have played every sport available and can easily say that my attempt to be a “good” golfer has required much more effort then any other. The challenge and difficulty, in addition to the above qualities, are what has attracted me to golf.
What is your favorite sport? Why?
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I agree with everything except the “phone calls” on the golf course. I find them extremely annoying and that person always slows down the game. You should be able to put your PDA aside to concentrate for a few hours. Actually, exactly why I like golf is because noone is going to drive to each hole to find me. I don’t even keep score anymore because I really do enjoy it.
Agree with you on the whole though, I do love the game of Baseball.
I’s a little like archery and the zen of that, however you get to walk more and the target is both smaller and further away. Does this imply a different level of gratification? You have to be a little more patient and you get a few swings at the ball, whereas with the bow and arrow it is all in a moment. (Unless you’re playing in an exciting ‘hole in one’ tournament like Jason Hargett who won a million yesterday at the Mark Eaton Celebrity Golf Classic benefit for the University of Utah’s Diabetes Centre.)
Golf is not exactly a team sport is it? Even when teams are playing golf is still quite an individual pursuit. Even when playing with another player one is often playing against their own previous scorecard.
Possibly its best attribute is that you get to see people perform under pressure in an intimate situation and also get a chance to have a good chat, if you leave your phone off.
Tennis.
I agree with much of the original post, yet we golfers must acknowledge that the standards of behavior within the game have fallen in recent years. Tiger Woods’s tantrums and club-throwing episodes would have been unthinkable a generation ago. Can you imagine any of the game’s greats – Hogan, Snead, Palmer, Player, Nicklaus, to name a few – conducting themselves that way? And then we have the hoopla surrounding the Ryder Cup. Storming the 18th green before the opposing player has had a chance to finish, even if his putt no longer matters, should never happen. Golf is the last bastion of civility in an increasingly uncivil world, but we must ensure it stays that way.