The insistence on silence is one of the 2 primary reasons that golf is not a sport. (The other being that golf has no defense – if you attempt to impact the play of a competitor, you’re cheating. And the first-place finisher in a tournament may never even cross paths with the runner-up. Golfers don’t play against other golfers; they play against themselves. Whichever golfer does the best job of playing against him- or herself wins.) I ain’t sayin’ that golf doesn’t require skill or that it ain’t extraordinary that one can get a little ball into a little hole hundreds of yards away with a few whacks with a stick. I’m just sayin’ that it ain’t a sport.
The insistence on silence is one of the 2 primary reasons that golf is not a sport. (The other being that golf has no defense – if you attempt to impact the play of a competitor, you’re cheating. And the first-place finisher in a tournament may never even cross paths with the runner-up. Golfers don’t play against other golfers; they play against themselves. Whichever golfer does the best job of playing against him- or herself wins.) I ain’t sayin’ that golf doesn’t require skill or that it ain’t extraordinary that one can get a little ball into a little hole hundreds of yards away with a few whacks with a stick. I’m just sayin’ that it ain’t a sport.