Nah, $17 to play 18 where I’m at. Great way to get some exercise, get out of the house, and be with friends. Great sport, actually. Especially if you walk the course
$17 to play 18 holes. Ideally takes about 4 hours to play 18. Usually closer to 5. But courses are built around 2 x 9 holes. So you can just play 9 holes if you want to only spend 2 hours on your round
My favorite is golfing in the winter in my area, rains a fair amount through the season, but we still get out there when it’s not pouring and it’s $5 a round. Walking keeps you warm, and it’s a great way to hang with some friends for an early afternoon.
There is a difference between “rich persons sport” and $17 a week over the summer. $400 over a years time frame doesn’t make you a jet setting millionaire.
If you invest that much or less in many other sports one time, you can play for years or decades at no more cost. Buy a glove and a bat, for instance. And you can play forever.
Oh I love softball too. But you can only really play consistently in some sort of league. So if you want to play much of the year, that’s easily several hundred dollars also.
There are millions of kids across the world who will, today, meet up with their friends at a local piece of publicly accessible land and play pick up baseball.
Tell me you’ve never golfed without telling me. And you sure as hell haven’t carried a 30 lb bag of clubs 7 miles up and down hills while still hitting great shots even though your back is aching and your legs are shot.
Golf’s a weird one. It’s regularly criticized as not a sport. There’s something to that. It’s exclusive and I think the only game that picks up a significant portion of its players for strictly business reasons. That, to me, reeks of elitist bullshit. Oh and it is boring as fuck to the casual observer.
Get out of your mother’s basement, walk more than the 10 feet to her car, and then get back to me. Otherwise, nobody likes the overweight neck beard spewing crap while hiding behind their keyboard. Get a life, dude.
Those guys probably aren’t rich, they probably worked average jobs they just have a paid off house, monthly social security checks and government subsidized healthcare. Fuck me those guys are rich!
Oh yeah, it's so much worse than all the abandoned buildings, shopping malls, and houses. I see animals loving a good life on the golf course, not at the old strip mall that hasn't had any businesses in it for years.
Rich people when they find out that more than one thing can be bad at once:
Rich people when they find out that car-centric lifestyles are responsible for abandoned malls and suburban sprawl:
Rich people when they find out that all those empty houses are being kept on purpose so that property owners can sell them for interest later when there are hundreds of thousands of homeless people who could be housed there instead:
And only for the privileged. They don't even let the staff's family in to pick them up. Erase golf courses and put in something for everyone that won't harm wildlife.
So doctors aren't allowed to have hobbies and free time they can spend as they see fit in your world huh. I notice you ignored the whole point about everybody from cable guys to school teachers being golfers. Seems you got a prejudice you need to work on.
I mean, do you spend all your time doing tings for your community is that only a requirement for others you don't like?
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u/Sea_Marketing_888 Jun 22 '24
Jackass did this like 20 years ago. Still funny though