This is my first BleacherReport article and I wanted to make one thing clear: If you think golfers are athletes and that golf is a sport, you are either wrong or a golfer. If you don't believe me look at the above photo.
Somebody once told me "if you don't think golfing is a sport, try walking a few miles in 100 degree weather and swinging a golf club every so often."
After watching this person eat a donut, I responded with "If you think golfing is a sport try playing a real sport for 10 minutes."
You see golfing is not a sport. It is simply a luxury and even if a golf tournament was held in 100 degree weather I'd bet money that every participants would bitch about it. Give me a break you jokesters!
With all that said, I would like to acknowledge someone with a vision of changing golf. This man’s name is Tripp Isenhour. If golfing was all about launching balls at a high-velocity towards endangered birds, I would at least refer to it as a manly activity. It still would in no way be a sport, but about 300 times more fun to watch.
The only way golfing could be any less of a sport is if, instead of walking you just drove around in little cars in between each shot. Oh my god! They exists, they’re called golf carts.
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6 months ago
Bruce, can I get your autograph?
6 months ago
first, you can't say all golfers resemble John Daly. Not including the senior tour, John Daly and Kevin Stadler are the only over-weight golfers I have seen.
Golf is a sport and it's classified as a sport. According to dicitonary.com, golf is classified as:
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
*please note the fourth example
Does it take skill to play golf? Skill, in golf, is having the great eye-hand coordination and the ability to hit the ball hard enough and at just the right place in order for it to land where you want it 100-300 yards down the course. It's just like baseball except the ball is stationary in golf.
You must be strong and flexible in order to have all the key components to play golf at the PGA level.
And just like all sports, competition is present throughout. Except the fact that Tiger Woods rapes everyone, so everyone plays for second place now a-days.
from 6 months ago
the writers and editors of dictionaries everywhere must be golfers or plagiarists of other dictionaries.
6 months ago
*golf isi classified as:
*golf should be sport.
and your article is garbage.
from 6 months ago
And I suppose now you're going to tell me bowling is a sport too?
6 months ago
I like to play a little golf now and again during the summer months, but i do have to agree with you... It isn't really a sport. Nor are any of the other "sports" i so enjoy: fishing, bowling, darts and racing. But they have been called sports for so long and there is so much money behind all of them (well, maybe not bowling and darts) that we will not be seeing a change of name any time soon.
Also, what brought this rant on? Don't you golf, Bruce?
4 months ago
perhaps if we combined Trap Shooting and Golf ... or there was a pitcher ... or a Linebacker like in the commercial ?
from 4 months ago
Damn! This is almost conciliatory!
4 months ago
is this a serious article? heard of John Kruk or maybe Babe Ruth? Both overweight, drunkard ATHLETES. Trying sending that tiny ball 400 yards into a small hole in 4 or 5 strokes and then tell me its easy.
from 4 months ago
Same goes for guys like David Ortiz or other designated hitters. At least Babe Ruth played the field. What DH's do isn't that different than golf!
3 months ago
Thanks for the chuckle, Bruce.
J.
3 months ago
I would say this... Golf is a recreational activity. The reason I say that is many people who play it can improve their score by consuming alcohol while playing it.
But Tiger Woods IS an athlete.
For the man who runs with a 50-pound body suit on and has arms like that... I dare anyone to say otherwise... Do it to his face.
Just call me in advance so I can bring the camera.
And now we find out Woods has been playing (and winning) on a torn ACL, and a fractured leg.
THAT's an athlete for you (NHL play with pain style).
2 months ago
My 2 favorite sports, that I actually participate in, are Golf and bowling. Bowling is a sport that I actually train for when I got to tournaments. I don't think you could go and practice bowl 20 -30 games, by yourself. You'd be so out of breath, it wouldn't be funny. I actually have a training regimen that I have to follow so I don't pull any muscles when I go to regional PBA tournaments.
Golfing is another sport that I love. You try walking 18 holes of golf, in the heat, up and down hills. Not only is it physically demanding, but mentally as well. You don't just walk up to a ball and hit it.
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