IMO people who get into golf have petit bourgeois aspirations. Of course there are exceptions, but everyone I’ve met who’s into golf is either PMC, petit bourgeois, or aspires to be.
Yeah when my mom signed me up for golf camp she said it was because successful men play golf and id need to do it to integrate.
Of course i sucked at it like i did every other sport so i ended up just using it as another excuse to do what i really like to do: work with younger kids. (I was assigned as a “peer mentor” by the directors but i was the only kid in that group that actually helped out with the younger kids.)
I got volunteering hours for my college aps from that peer mentor thing though so that was cool. Even if i ended up going to a sure thing i barely needed qualifications for and then flunked out, lol
As I grow older my hatred of golf grows stronger
I used to hate golf because it was boring and heralded the end of Saturday morning cartoons. Now I hate golf because it’s a waste of good land that could be a nice park, instead maybe a dozen rich guys discussing how they’re going to dump toxic waste in a river or whatever
Honestly I don’t care about golf as much as my firm belief that every country club deserves to be burned to the ground.
Golf is a bourgeois “sport” and I’m tired of pretending it’s not
Why were you pretending it wasn’t?
Ive concluded that we are allowed to have the pieces golf (mini golf and driving ranges) but not the whole thing.
Municipal courses in areas that can’t be used for other things is not a bad idea. Golfing can be nice if you’re doing it on a course that tries to use local flora and fauna and you’re basically just hiking and occasionally hitting a ball.
Golf is walking around shooting the shit with your friends, being outside, drinking, and enjoying the sun. Stripped of it’s social and ecological implications i get it. You’re just fucking around, being outside, being with friends. You’ve got a skill based game with lots of doodads you can build mastery in, or you can just say fuck it and hit the ball.
I think the appeal is similar to mini-golf, just on a macro scale.
Just gonna call golf, Macro Golf from here on out
That’s why disc golf is kinda a good replacement. It’s a walk outside with friends, but it can be in smaller spaces, doesn’t need reserved space, and can even be in places where it’s lightly wooded.
I agree but because throwing a frisbee is the only athletic thing ive ever been ok at. I sucked at Ultimate significantly less than other sports. Well actually now that im remembering i had a thing when i tried baseball that i was always pretty accurate with a bat, but couldnt run fast enough to get oh base. Or do literally anything on defense.
But with golf, while i can putt ok but i cant drive the ball literally at all.
I think you’ve got the right idea. A lot of the people I know that are into golf just like hanging out outside with friends. Sure a few of them are well off, but I think the appeal as you age and have kids has more to do with being the ‘third place’.
Public courses in places where you’re not fucking the water cycle by transporting water from far away are pretty cool.
Country club culture and having pristine grass in deserts suck, if hedge fund managers want to play a sport where they shut out the poors then they should stick to squash at expensive fitness clubs.
There’s a way to do golf without all of the horrible things that often come attached to it. My local course is owned by an American Indian tribe, and the course is intermixed with a bunch of nature preserves that money from the course is used to maintain. In Scotland they prevent “country club culture” from arising by basically mandating that every golf course be affordable and open to the public. Stuff like that is cool, society has a vested interest in maintaining big green spaces and not every single one has to be a park, some of them can be sports fields and even golf courses, within reason and the desires of the community of course.
But as it currently exists in 90% of cases? To be honest I think rich people get off on how bad they can be for the local environment, water table, etc and on how they can be used to create and maintain regimes of discrimination and privilege.
Idk, still seems pretty lame
Golf courses being owned by indigenous people doesn’t make golf cool, just like how casinos being owned by indigenous doesn’t make gambling cool
Golf courses being affordable still doesn’t help the fact such vast lands are reserved for only a few people to be using it at once
Minneapolis has one public municiple golf course and there’s a constant fight to keep it open.
It’s funny because as I got older I enjoyed Bocce Ball more but miniature golf is still fun.
Bocce Ball
Petanque is pretty cool too, the
version basically
Golf is evil. It’s a climate-destroying bourgeois sport for porkies to talk about their unspeakable crimes far away from microphones while acting abusively towards caddies and servers.
Think of the millions of gallons of water used to keep this grass in Las Vegas green. All that water wasted and not a single ounce of edible vegetation comes from it.
all so that
can get tipsy while trading stonks on their phone.
What if instead of golf guys played wolf and they went out into the woods at night, howl for a while and then sleep in a big pile in a burrow?
no, that’s my favorite cooking location, no boys allowed
It’s a way to casually compete with the fellas and and drink before noon on a Saturday without having to tell your wife/gf you are going to the bar at 9AM. My cousins who are union members golf, just at public courses instead of country clubs.
get wasted at a cheap local course and try to play
or sneak onto one at night
great fun
we only made it 4 holes before we lost all our balls
it’s fun to smack a few balls as hard as you like on a range too, or set markers with your friends and see who can get the closest
none of us have ever played golf more than 5 times in our lives
I think it isn’t getting older, it rises with level of desire to be petite bourgeoisie.
My brother sold both his motorcycles in order to afford to buy one of those golf simulators they have at the big sporting good places. He can go in his garage and hammer away into a screen. It also came with a computer program that allows you to download every course on the PGA tour. Him and his buddies play every weekend.
We need more people like your brother
