Seriously, what is up with all the people on the golf courses? You get these yahoos out there that have no chance of breaking 100 and they claim to be having fun. So one idiot's joy is another person's misery I guess. That would be the poor soul stuck behind that duffer.
Why do crappy golfers insist on playing slowly? There's no possible way they're ever going to shoot a good score. Why not keep moving? Why spend minutes at a time trying to fish golf balls out of the water with your ball shagger?
I know that my brother, my dad, and I aren't the only golfers who are annoyed by this. There has got to be an enclave of above-average golfers out there pissed at the same thing we're pissed at. I think the PGA Tour's ad campaign promoting golf should be stopped. All they're doing is making our rounds of golf longer. If golf were meant to be played by the masses, it would be. But it's not a game like soccer that you can just pick up and play.
So, save yourself the pain and the anguish people. Don't buy that first set of clubs unless you intend to become better! If you're just doing it because it's popular, stay the hell away. We don't need you slowing up our rounds.
Golf should not be an excuse to get out and drink beers. That's why they invented Nascar. Go play horseshoes and down a sixer.
Don't play golf America.
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Golf is a sport that can only be loved by those who routinely play it, have a knowledge of it's long standing traditions, it's players, and it's unadulterated level of difficulty. The intention of the “Play Golf America” campaign was not to get more people to play golf, but to get more people to spend money on golf and make the sport more socially acceptable. Golf was, and probably still is to some extent, stigmatized as a sport that only the snooty, rich conservatives play. “Play Golf America” was created to erase that notion and make it more palatable to the general public.
The problem is that those of us who grew up playing golf didn't get to jump right onto the course and knock it around, at least not on weekends. We spent our time in the trenches hitting ball after ball at the range actually trying to develop a game before we attempted to engage in a round on the course. Therein lies the disconnect. More and more people are seeing the media ogle over Tiger and they want in on the action. Instead of heading to the range, they are heading directly to the course. I have no problem with people wanting to LEARN the game of golf, but that is not the case. People want to play golf and that is not possible. That's why rounds are taking more and more time to complete and creating an air of frustration amongst the seasoned golfers.
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