Kanda
Diving wanker
It's a sport simulator, not claiming to be a sport in itself... handy for learning/practicing when it's difficult to get to courses I reckon.
From about £10/hour.
Lessons are a bit more.
Golf. Do you hate it?
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It's a sport simulator, not claiming to be a sport in itself... handy for learning/practicing when it's difficult to get to courses I reckon.
From about £10/hour.
Lessons are a bit more.
Compare...
How many urban golfers end up on an actual golf course eventually?
How many cricketers using cricket nets end up on an actual cricket pitch eventually?
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
It is really satisfying to hit a ball hundreds of yards or high into the air.
Kanda
Diving wanker
Quite a few people start in Urban Golf for lessons or practice when the weather is shit.
Living in a City it makes complete sense to use it as you can't exactly pop out to a driving range or course after work can you??
Whereas there are Cricket nets all over the place that are accessible after work.
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i despise it....its stupid and pointless.
i despise it....its stupid and pointless.
mattie
missing in inaction
I have no idea, both of the figure or why it would be significant.
Both replicate aspects of a sport, for alternative reasons, granted, but neither are sports in their own right.
You wouldn't use Urban Golf to practice* once you had the basic swing sorted as you can't assess the flight of the ball - the machine can only estimate. Golf requires accurate flight and distance control, which you can only assess by actually watching flight and distance.
*in the sense that you would need something additional, not that going to play Urban Golf would be useless.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Love it, just wish I didn't suck at playing it so much (but never had lessons). Don't play very much.
I love watching the majors, going to the Open is a great day out. I just wish there was more than one course near London it's played at, though I have been to a few in Scotland.
I love watching the majors, going to the Open is a great day out. I just wish there was more than one course near London it's played at, though I have been to a few in Scotland.
Forum Lout
Innit
Boring as fuck
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Compared to eg. football, or pool?
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Hate the game, although if I'm honest it's golf clubs and all the associated twattery, rather than the sport itself, that I can't stand.
What's different from simply throwing them?
I like hitting things as much as the next man. Indeed there's nothing I like more than delivering a sweet punch or crunching into a tackle, but there's an element of personal competition there.
Driving ranges might as well be competitive sessions of wet the pitta bread for all I care.
I like hitting things as much as the next man. Indeed there's nothing I like more than delivering a sweet punch or crunching into a tackle, but there's an element of personal competition there.
Driving ranges might as well be competitive sessions of wet the pitta bread for all I care.
paulhackett
voiced by strother martin
Not bothered, but not thrilled.
More bothered by the 'In the Hole!', 'You the Man!' shite comments from the people who go and watch.. the pros seem to be anonymous and anodyne or up themselves.. what's all the glaring at cameraman when a camera makes a shutter sound..
Seems ruined by commercialism and professionalism (like a lot of sports). Seemed ok when it was Watson and Nicklaus at Turnberry or Ballesteros.
Whacking a ball in the countryside is good..
More bothered by the 'In the Hole!', 'You the Man!' shite comments from the people who go and watch.. the pros seem to be anonymous and anodyne or up themselves.. what's all the glaring at cameraman when a camera makes a shutter sound..
Seems ruined by commercialism and professionalism (like a lot of sports). Seemed ok when it was Watson and Nicklaus at Turnberry or Ballesteros.
Whacking a ball in the countryside is good..
maomao
普費斯
Me and my mate were seeing who could hit it further. It was all about the personal competition element. Plus it's not as easy as it looks. Nothing worse than launching into a full blooded swing and having the ball land short of the first distance marker.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
No option for "I don't care either way, but can see the appeal. Nice way to spend a day."
mattie
missing in inaction
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
You can hit a golf ball with a club a hell of a lot further and higher than you can throw it – you've extended your levers with the club and can get much more speed through the ball.
Hitting a golf ball a long way is really satisfying – you look at it afterwards and can't quite believe that it was you that did it.
Hitting a golf ball a long way is really satisfying – you look at it afterwards and can't quite believe that it was you that did it.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
OMG - when I first read that I thought of an antlered version of polo ponies.
Golf bores me absolutely shitless, the same as skiing.
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
As a spectator sport it's almost as bad as darts. As something to do for a couple of hours it's actually rather good. Unfortunately relatively expensive. Also unfortunately a rather high proportion of golfers are twats.
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
A golf ball coming straight off the sweet spot of a driver and going straight as an arrow is the best feeling in the world.
I can still remember the best drive I've hit. I was playing shit and started taking irons off the tee and shortening my back swing to about hip high and still couldn't get a ball away.
Towards the end of the round I thought "fuck it" and took out the big stuff and leathered it full force. The perfect shot disappeared into the far distance. I nearly drove a par 4. I'd pay money to do that again.
It's like squeezing the best spot you ever had!!
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Both fantastic spectator sports.
I take it you've never had a line of the finest colombian off the back of a wild nymphomaniac just as you reach the vinegar stroke.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
'hate' is utterly disproprtionate.
I associate playing the thing with being a bit 'nouveau' (soz, Kanda) - my Stevenage/Buldock relatives play.
watching it is just so far down the list of leisure time options as to be irrelevant. It would probably place lower than housework, but getting some leisure-sleep rates more highly than both, so who cares?
I associate playing the thing with being a bit 'nouveau' (soz, Kanda) - my Stevenage/Buldock relatives play.
watching it is just so far down the list of leisure time options as to be irrelevant. It would probably place lower than housework, but getting some leisure-sleep rates more highly than both, so who cares?
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Putting Stevenage into it negates any kind of class issue!!
My cunt stepdad and his family were all Stevenage...
i think xes lives up that way, but otherwise, my entire hertfordhire experience is via my decidedly nouveau (well off but no education [hang on, sounds familiar]) paternal family.
