You forgot the lack of mass ecological destruction and toxic levels of fertilizer with the mini golf
Fake grass isn’t great either, but at least it’s a slower poison than… well, poison.
i lived in Aberdeen, birthplace of golf.
it’s such a different experience there.
practically everyone golfs, all ages/genders/ethnicities, families, friends, neighbours, working class, poor, rich…
Golf grass grows naturally there and doesn’t need extra water.
people just walk to the closest golf course.
Electric buggies are banned in most courses, in a game you can end up walking a few km, actual outdoor exercise.
it’s so different than the rest of the world, where it is upperclass or upperclass pretending, beers in electric buggies, expensive clubhouses…
all that, and regular golf is incredibly wasteful with water. it’s sickening. plus the fact that it’s a historically racist as fuck sport, fuck golf, fuck golfers. Oh and they expect their neighbors to subsidize their hobby (see muni golf courses) - get fucked
Boomers when someone wants to build a playground or a skatepark: “Noooo, that’s communism!”
Boomers asking the local government to subsidize their useless ass golf course: “Our community”
yuuuup
What sport isn’t historically racist?
NASCAR
The one with the noose hanging in the one black guys out garage?
Ullamaliztli?
Oh so sports in general being chock fulla racist fuckheads makes it ok that golf courses were often segregated until the 80s?
Oh ok. Yeah.
Nah. Get fucked with that. But to answer your question, I see zero racism in curling.
Pretty sure I didn’t say it made it ok. Just that it was a pointless statement because it is true of all sports that I know of.
then why did you bring it up in response sparky?
Are you asking why I made a comment sharing my thought without 100% disagreeing with OP? Cause not everything is love or hate.
It honestly wouldn’t be so bad if there weren’t so fucking many golf courses.
If there were 25 golf courses per US state, we would have 1250 golf courses - or less than 10% of the number we currently have.
I guess the rich don’t want to have to share a space with the filthy middle class, or something.
No, don’t first date mini golf unless you want them to know how you look incredibly frustrated and on the verge of chucking a club at a fucking windmill.
The great thing about golf, either mini or fullsize, is that you never have to play either of them. I don’t.
If I remember George Carlins bit correctly the amount of golf courses in the US took up two rhode islands and a delaware worth of space once counted up. He argued we should turn it into homeless shelters and public housing, and to let the golfers test actual skill at the mini-golf. Actually looking at it semantically I wonder if the word mini-golf exist just to demean it compared to big boy real golf.
I don’t play except once every couple of years… and poorly. But it isn’t as wasteful on water as you think. They often use some form of recycled water, and once it is on the ground it doesn’t just go away. Much of it goes deeper into the ground, getting filtered naturally, and ends up back in an underground aquifer. The “loss” is just in evaporation. Which of course eventually comes back as rain. Some percentage of that ends up in the ocean. That part is more or less lost as drinkable water. But recycled water often wasn’t drinkable to start with.
It’s really the fertalizers that are the problem I believe.
There’s no point trying to be rational, whoever made this meme clearly has no idea about actual golf. Most golfers aren’t rich, most golf courses are pretty cheap. It’s just a way for people to drink and have fun with buddies.
Probably true. The courses I have played on were far from high end. And of the ones I know of around me, there is like 8 budget places for each “nicer” one. And I think there is only 2 super high end ones on my side of portland.
Lots of golf courses also use or are part of the waste water system in the area.
He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul’s head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.
Play golf the way it was originally intended and you’ll never be confused about whether or not it’s a sport ever again.
Worth trying disc golf. Most courses are built on under utilized park land funded and maintained by local volunteer clubs. You can get three discs for $30-40 or most loan some from somebody who plays (we all have too many) and get started!
Most courses are free to play.
Mini golf FTW!
The most minigolf i played was a flash game on nitrome, mallet mania yes, it was very basic but it has a certain something to that…
The real problem is the children and the noise they make.
What about top golf
Top golf ruins the skyline of every city that has one
Overpriced, multi-story driving range.
past time
FTLoG.
