The only person I know that play golf do it because he's in real state and doing golf is "good to meet clients and close businesses". He didn't even enjoy it, it's work meetings for him.

Whats wrong about walking around and drinking outside?

Nice pun. You got it down to a tee

Do you play golf, or just going off stereotypes? It feels like you way overdouchified the people who just want to walk around and drink outside

That's capitalist golf.

Good, ethical golf of the proletariat happens anywhere you can place a can and the worse the terrain, the better the game.

Virtual golf is a thing now. It's like a giant video game.

Basically, you hit a ball into a projection screen. It has fancy laser trackers that works out direction, distance and spin. You can even select to play famous courses anywhere in the world, where they'd never let you in, and you couldn't afford anyways.

Doesn't take much room at all. Indoors with all the creature comforts

and the loser is 99% of humans 🥳

Honestly I look at golf as a different sport entirely here in the US. It's all about exclusive clubs, racist segregation, flagrant wasting of resources to benefit a tiny minority, and often using public funds to subsidize a shitty sport so rich people can pay less for their racist bullshit.

I do wonder how the average scotsman feels because your perspective from living there a few years doesn't really tell us the entire story, just your POV.

I bet the lower parts of Scotland (and probably most of the higher areas, too) was forest before humans started cultivating it.

That reminds me of when I was a kid and I and my family would play the home-made hybrid game "croquet golf" on our (very uneven) lawn. It was really fun. Essentially, it was golf rules with croquet equipment. My dad dug nine holes in our lawn for that game.

that makes a lot of sense. colonization and rich flaunting has the effect of transposing things to where they make no sense and requires destruction to make work at all. example that comes to my mind is how cheap concrete and steel construction being imposed on third world countries by its neocolonizers, places where its expensive to create and makes construction worse bc its not suitable for every environment. and the rich of third world countries picking glass metal generic skyscrapers to flaunt their wealth, constructing them in places where its horrible

RIP Scotland.

what I would pay to live in that dream....

dont have to share it to me harder #communist

Dude's uncle isn't rich.

only if the rich touched the grass they played on

There's at least one course in my area that uses the income to help the surrounding nature. Plus they have strict rules regarding what areas you're allowed to go during bird breeding seasons

Arguably the worst part would be the large area of grass. But even that is mostly offset by them maintaining the somewhat "wild" spots between the courses and the area being grassy to begin with

They are also quite affordable, so it's not a snobby rich club. So it's basically a nice way for people to enjoy nature and walk around more

It's possible. Sadly the minority

I've never understood why golf couldn't have different terrain (in the way that tennis does). Wouldn't it make golf more interesting if you had to play on a clay course? I feel like this would make sense in places like Arizona. Adapt the sport to the environment.

garlic grass would be better to grow :3

aha you're right ! still does if I squint at the big image

Hey, you leave disc golf alone.

I'd like to keep just one golf course but add giant versions of mini golf obstacles. Golfers would probably hate it but they need some more whimsy

What does Iran have to do with this?

But do they play golf at the Gulf?

me and my dad talked about this a couple days ago, my favourite part is that you can literally just cut down a few choice trees to create a disc golf course, so they're lovely places to be in as well.

Meanwhile golf courses give me a migraine from all the open unshaded space..

“From each according to his handicap” x69marxnoscope69x

not that i dont agree, but boring games are allowed to exist. the issue is the racism, elitism, colonization of land, waste and abuse of water and resources

Could be, but everyone's opinion of what's boring is different.

Have you ever had to watch an American Football match? Besides very little actual foot on ball action (it was more like rugby but with lots of padding, fair enough, but at least change the name so it's not so misleading), they kept constantly stopping every 30 seconds or so to have a little meeting, and for their like... 3 or 4 referees to have a chat and move some flagpoles around.

It was SOOOOO boring! It went on for HOURS because they constantly would stop for little meetings, interrupting the flow of the action every time it started to maybe get slightly interesting.

The only saving grace was that the weather was nice, there was an easily accessible bar, and in the field behind the pitch there was a local radio controlled aircraft event, so while the players were milling about not playing - which again was so very boring and frequent - I could watch the cool remote controlled planes and stuff and have a pint.

Anyway, my point is, one person's ultimate excitement is another person's ultimate bore-fest.

Anarchocommunist golf is where you spend the day trying to track down the golf clubs someone took from the communal tool shed without telling anyone.

Communism is when everybody shares 1 club (its a 4-iron)

Agreed! Also, the exclusivity of many golf courses is the ultimate P2W flex here. Communism would end country clubs, not the game.

oh the horrors /s

people to unite

Whoa! That kind of attitude won't stop communism. Once they come for one sport they will come for others. It's like the old saying says, "first they came for golf, and I said nothing because I did not golf"