Why I Don't Golf

Can you believe this?:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orl-bk-bird-030608,0,7880171.story

 

Who cares? It's a rat with wings.

 

So no one said quit hitting balls at the damn bird?

Dumbassery.

Did people do dumb and inhumane things before video was prevelant?

 

That's going to be a very costly "birdie."

 

That's really why you don't golf?

 

Did he do the golf-ball-off-the-head-of-the-club trick 50 times before nailing the hawk like a fungo, a la Tiger?

 

If he swung only once, I'd be impressed with his accuracy. That it took him 10 times shows why he's on the Nationwide Tour, I suppose.

The worst thing I ever hit was a flagstick 50 yards down range while warming up for a Futures Tour pro-am event. Problem was the ball that hit it came off of a shanked drive, rattling the flagstick like one of those old-school doorstops. Some pros turned around, saw me, and started to laugh. I responded with a genteel tip of the cap.

 

I don't golf because I've just never had an interest in it.

 

I don't golf because my first newspaper boss tried to use it as a way to turn me into his buddies' whipping boy. Buncha elitist assholes. Some good people in golf, but it seems to have more than its share of egomaniacal jerks. So I stay away. I'm sure I'm not missed.

 

Well don't start now. When this gets out, hawks will be attacking golfers left and right.

 

Dave Winfield believes it.

 

Randy Johnson laughs in the direction of this thread.