Golf is a sport !

J.R. Hudson said:
Golf doesn't require any serious notion of atheletic ability Blaine. Not to say some Pros aren't an exception (Tiger for example) but no. That's why overweight old men in their 50's are still competing on the tour.

Fred Funk ? Craig Stadler ? Sam Snead played on the tour at 63. Jerry Barber was 77 at the 1994 Buick Invitational.
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Hmmm, David Wells, Tony Gwynn, Bartolo Colon, Cecil & Prince Fielder...

William Perry, innumerable offensive linemen.
 
If golf isn't a sport then why does Tiger Woods look like more of an athlete than most LAZY ASS baseball players. Golf is shifting more from an activity of leisure into a real sport that requires peak physical fitness. Tiger is forcing the game to change, and the out of shape ones are falling behind.

If baseball is a sport than so is golf. People talk about old fat men being able to achieve things in golf.......How about one of the greatest baseball players ever....a fat hot dog eater named Babe Ruth? He wasn't in **** for shape.
 
J.R. Hudson said:
There isn't a sane person in the world who would say Baseball is not a sport. Not one.
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I agree...BUT saying golf isn't a sport because some of its participants are overweight is kind of weak which I pointed out with the prime examples of "fit" baseball players.
 
Yeah

I respect Car Racers and their big balls but sitting there steering ... well ...

One time this dude and I raced back from San Pedro, CA to San Diego, CA

Avergaed around 70 but hit speeds over 100.

And then a cop pulled us both over around San Luis Obispo.
 
Blaine said:
I agree...BUT saying golf isn't a sport because some of its participants are overweight is kind of weak which I pointed out with the prime examples of fit baseball players.
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No no

That isn't my only reason; but it counts.

It requires no athletic ability is my point. Those players are just prime examples of guys succeeding in the lil sportito.

We can say Gwynn or Wells, but underneath that flab is some strong dudes.

(ONe night I'll come up and we'll get drunk and debate!)

LOL
 
I'd say Golf is a kind of a "Sport", I guess it really depends on what you define "Sport" as, either way its not my kind of "Sport",

I guess you could coin the phrase:

"One mans Sport is another mans foolishness"

You see this one time I was trying to explain golf to these two foreign guys, I told them how you use this stick to hit this ball into a hole and.... ah never mind, lets just say they laughed so hard and thought of it as rather bizzare!
 
Being that 2 of my favorite sports are being some what bad mouthed, I figured I would weigh in.

As far as racing goes, until someone has driven over 150mph for an hour an a half and can recognize the physical and mental demand that it takes to do that....it's hard to quantify what it means to really race. They spend the better part of there time under heavy G-force...usually 3+ G's under breaking and well over 1+ G in even the slightest of turns. For the human body to withstand that type of torture takes a lot of physical training and conditioning.

Think of it this way. Most production sports cars (Corvettes, 350Zs, etc.) can pull about 1G on a skid pad in the upper 60mph range before they lose traction and spin out. So imagine your driving your car to it's absolute limit for 90 mins with only two 8 second breaks. Taking constant turns at full speed. Flooring it from the exit of every turn and standing on your breaks as hard as possible before you enter every turn at the maximum speed possible. Now imagine you have a car that will let you take some turns at over 100mph and hit speeds of 200+mph, and slow down from that 200 to 60 in 3 sec's .....just to do that a few hundred more times in the next hour.

Kind of hard to say that it's just steering, or compare to a street race. (And I agree, while it is entertaining to some.....NASCAR is just marketing and about the most boring skill I have ever seen. I'll admit they have balls and it is a skill....but it sure ain't road racing.)

As far as golf goes, I don't know if I would call it a sport the way I play. Almost everything I have ever considered a sport has absolutely drove me nuts when I have to practice it (generally due to the high amounts of activity and my general disdain for pointless work as a whole). Golf is basically another reason to leave the wife at home for 5 hours, hang out with some dudes, drink your beverage of choice, have some fun competition and bet some $$$. I also like it because I can be lazy and ride a cart the whole time.

So while I certainly do not make a sport of it, there are those whose mental/physical - stamina/accuracy certainly raise to to a whole different level that I will be happy to recognize as a sport.
 
JUST saw the Gillette commercial where they have 5 blades instead of 3

At the end of the commercial, Federer says "See ? Five is better than three ."

Woods says "Not in Golf"

and Jeter says "Yeah, but in real sports it is."

Tiger says "Whatever ..."

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Even Tiger knows.
 
You know what's not a sport?

Rhythmic gymnastics. If that's a sport, then ballet and ballroom dancing are sports.
 
Tiger Woods is considered by many (including Michael Jordan & other professionals) as THE best athlete of all time... and when you make as much money as he does, I'm sure you'd be saying "whatever" quite a bit too! (it's safe to say Gillette paid him & wrote the script)

By the way... you go to Baseball GAMES, Basketball GAMES...even Football GAMES....so, I guess those aren't sports either? And what about Gymnastics...that CAN'T be a sport.

Even Tiger knows... let those that can't compete argue the point.

This IS easy.
 
JUST saw the Gillette commercial where they have 5 blades instead of 3

At the end of the commercial, Federer says "See ? Five is better than three ."

Woods says "Not in Golf"

and Jeter says "Yeah, but in real sports it is."

Tiger says "Whatever ..."

-

Even Tiger knows.
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That's pretty good.

I just thought of a revolutionary idea for a new razor.......6 blades.
 
JConnors said:
That's pretty good.

I just thought of a revolutionary idea for a new razor.......6 blades.
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I'll top that. 6 blades in the front with 2 blades on the back for when you need to shave the tighter spots.

As for golf, as much as I don't like to admit it, it is a sport. It requires a highly skilled person to be proficient at it and it requires physical strength to truly compete. I play soccer with 70 year old guys sometimes but that doesn't mean they are as good as they were when they were 20.

Also, Foreman boxed until he was 50 and still won, yet no one is saying boxing is not a sport.
 
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While up on vacation (on Lake Superior) recently, I casually debated my mother-in-law in the old sport versus game mumbo jumbo. The Olympics were on, and it seemed like the thing to do. Anyways, I came up with a working definition to make my case. A sport is a LIVE competition between two individuals or two teams. In other words, both parties are competing against one another at the same time on the same "battlefield". So, as for the Olympic GAMES (that's right GAMES is right there in the title, I concluded this...

Gymnastics? Game
Volleyball? Sport
Track? Sport
Field? Game
Boxing Sport (betch-yer-ass)

You get the idea...

So I gotta say golf if in my book is a game...The best game ever created mind you...but a game nonetheless.
 
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