Soon after, the ‘pay a lot to play a little’ exclusive club would relegate the villagers to their humble Corn Hole pastime. Almost immediately the strange costumes appeared.
A couple of my grandsons have gone to our county golf camps and I applaud the pros there for coaching kids on appropriate behavior/etiquette and attire. It’s one of the sports that can be played throughout a lifetime.
Okay, I know this is sort of my own non sequitur, but with many games just being practice for battle, I wonder why we never really saw golf combat techniques. Golf Kung Fu, if you will. Maybe Golf Launchers in the Gulf?
Most if not all sports are about as lame. Is there really any difference to basketball ? Throw a ball in a hoop, run to the other end and do it again, over and over. Golf at least has a change of location for the hole.
Kings once banned golf as a distraction from essential activities like archery practice with “Assault Longbows” capable of delivering many projectiles at long range in a short span of time.
It’s funny because it’s so ridiculous — oh, that’s circular — because it’s so far from reality. Before “Christendom” began to get back to its roots and become more like its Founder intended, throughout history around the world, only the most rich and powerful had much if any chance to learn, enjoy much leisure time, invent things, do much that wasn’t directly related to mere survival, or have much if any hope for a happy afterlife.
Erse IS better about 1 year ago
Those old Scots worked hard and they played… strange games.
Imagine about 1 year ago
Well, for a few wealthy men at least.
GreasyOldTam about 1 year ago
Search out the YouTube vid of Robin Williams telling about two Scotsmen inventing golf.
Botulism Bob about 1 year ago
I didn’t know the Scots lived in grass huts.
keenanthelibrarian about 1 year ago
Well, I wouldn’t let his goats and sheep near his putting green. At least his stroll down to the neolithic hole won’t “spoil a good walk.”
Ubintold about 1 year ago
Isn’t miniature golf great?
comixbomix about 1 year ago
The first Penalty Stroke of Genius.
sandpiper about 1 year ago
Neighbor’s front lawn has a short approach lane and a small putting green with golf flag marking cup. Very cool.
Bilan about 1 year ago
The guy with the wheelbarrow is saying I thought I was the one shoveling it out!
dflak about 1 year ago
Golf was one of the biggest time wasters until the invention of the internet.
Nothing has come close since.
Zebrastripes about 1 year ago
Ya forgot the the chair you took root to watching the boob-tube
Count Olaf Premium Member about 1 year ago
Dunno about that… some people make a boatload of cash playing that…
goboboyd about 1 year ago
Soon after, the ‘pay a lot to play a little’ exclusive club would relegate the villagers to their humble Corn Hole pastime. Almost immediately the strange costumes appeared.
MS72 about 1 year ago
Cutting grass is the worst waste of time…
batesmom7 about 1 year ago
A couple of my grandsons have gone to our county golf camps and I applaud the pros there for coaching kids on appropriate behavior/etiquette and attire. It’s one of the sports that can be played throughout a lifetime.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 1 year ago
Okay, I know this is sort of my own non sequitur, but with many games just being practice for battle, I wonder why we never really saw golf combat techniques. Golf Kung Fu, if you will. Maybe Golf Launchers in the Gulf?
dwagon55 about 1 year ago
Google Johnny Hart’s B.C. Comic of 9/20/1990
Drbarb71 Premium Member about 1 year ago
Great description of golf. Ugh
shorzy about 1 year ago
Love it! A University Prof once said that where he grew up nobody cared about ‘lawns’. It was about control and showing your wealth…
mourdac Premium Member about 1 year ago
Being a hunter-gatherer has its advantages while playing golf.
SukieCrandall Premium Member about 1 year ago
a relevant poem from 1917 (so off copyright)
The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And see the men at play
— Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, “The Golf Links Lie So Near the Mill”
mindjob about 1 year ago
They might have used that plot to grow crops and feed the family but hey, it gets him outdoors Thursdays-Sundays
6turtle9 about 1 year ago
I wonder who invented golf pants?
SmallMeadow about 1 year ago
Very few golf strokes are strokes of genius. Although I do take comfort in knowing that in every round of golf I always have 18 perfect strokes.
leemorse9777 about 1 year ago
Most if not all sports are about as lame. Is there really any difference to basketball ? Throw a ball in a hoop, run to the other end and do it again, over and over. Golf at least has a change of location for the hole.
c141starlifter about 1 year ago
In the words of Mark Twain “Golf is good walk ruined”
Ed The Red Premium Member about 1 year ago
This is very much how it went, except that the person with the leisure time to invent lawns and golf is an extremely wealthy nobleman. Part of the 1%.
Billy Yank about 1 year ago
Kings once banned golf as a distraction from essential activities like archery practice with “Assault Longbows” capable of delivering many projectiles at long range in a short span of time.
AndrewSihler about 1 year ago
Next on the ticket: lawn furniture. The acme of time-wasters, fun for young and old, man and beast.
PaulGoes about 1 year ago
The invention of a good walk spoiled
locake about 1 year ago
You can tell the man on the left is single. He has free time to goof off.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 1 year ago
I was at a paint-drying and grass-growing expo the other day when a golf match broke out, and everyone got bored and went home.
DaBump Premium Member about 1 year ago
It’s funny because it’s so ridiculous — oh, that’s circular — because it’s so far from reality. Before “Christendom” began to get back to its roots and become more like its Founder intended, throughout history around the world, only the most rich and powerful had much if any chance to learn, enjoy much leisure time, invent things, do much that wasn’t directly related to mere survival, or have much if any hope for a happy afterlife.
eddi-TBH about 1 year ago
The peasants are revolting.
hagarthehorrible about 1 year ago
When you have bread, cloths and a shelter, you can waste your time playing golf, alright. The rest have to toil for these basic needs.