Why I Don't Golf

[Birddog]

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

 

[mike311gd]

Who cares? It's a rat with wings.

 

[Ace]

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

Dumbassery.

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

 

[TwoGloves]

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

 

[PeteyPirate]

That's really why you don't golf?

 

[Football_Bat]

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?

 

[doubledown68]

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.

 

[Buck]

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

 

[novelist_wannabe]

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.

 

[Ace]

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

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

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Dave Winfield believes it.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

Randy Johnson laughs in the direction of this thread.

 

[qtlaw]

With video? Tripp just brought down the collective IQ of golfers quite a bit.

 

[BNWriter]

I don't golf either, although I took classes in it in HS and college. In fact, the sport seems to have skipped a generation in my family. My father is an avid golfer, but neither my brother or I could get into it.

My brother's three boys, on the other hand....

And BTW, I couldn't believe the first name of the sound engineer quoted in the story. Gad!!

 

[mike311gd]

Miniature golf is my forte.

 

[rube]

Miniature golf is my forte.

Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge is my forte.

http://carvallo.ytmnd.com/