Golf is a garbage sport, amirite?

Someone just watched Falling Down

by Special_Lab 1 year ago

'Now you're gonna die wearing that stupid little hat'

by Fredybruen 1 year ago

Best line in a movie packed with great lines.

by hahnrolando 1 year ago

Or watched George Carlin

by Anonymous 1 year ago

He trash my store, paid for his soda, and left!

by trompsamson 1 year ago

Or discovered tumblr as this is a generic tumblr rant. Every friend i have who uses tumblr has this same "opinion".

by richieconroy 1 year ago

George Carlin had the exact same opinion 30 years ago

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It was Louis CK at one point

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It still is.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Mitch Hedberg, but mainly because their social skills emulate his act

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's not an opinion if he's right.

by jacques17 1 year ago

Hate to break it to you George Carlin isn't the second coming of Christ. Just because he said something doesn't mean he was right. He was a great comedian but that doesn't mean some of the stuff he said wasn't dumb.

by Luettgenjulio 1 year ago

I didn't say he was. I just pointed out that he made the same point as OP 30 years. Btw, I disagree with some of what George says.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

He was right about an extraordinarily large amount of things.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I did say he was the second coming of Christ and by george he will rise again, again.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Someone has a super high handicap.

by pmacejkovic 1 year ago

Someone slices on the reg

by Bauchreginald 1 year ago

You discovered my secret

by Inevitable-Alps 1 year ago

Wait until this guy hears about American strip malls

by Anonymous 1 year ago

And their respective parking requirements

by Ivory90 1 year ago

People who argue against golf with OP's "logic" can't be reasoned with. Sure, golf courses shouldn't exist where grass doesn't otherwise grow (deserts/hot and dry environments). Aside from those areas, golf courses bring so many benefits to urban areas; but people can't see past their own misguided prejudices and just get upset about it because "ItS jUsT a WaSte oF SpAcE." Case in point - the golf course I worked at brought in enough revenue to keep the P&R department net positive. Without it, rec centers, pools, parks, and other city facilities would have had to shut down. The course is recognized by the Audubon Society for its commitment to wildlife. It uses reclaimed water, as you pointed out. It's built on flood plain SO IT CANT BE DEVELOPED ANYWAYS. It acts as a heat sink for the urban area surrounding it. All of that before you even get to the mental benefits you talked about for those who choose to play. But yeah sure, it's just a waste of space.

by marianschmidt 1 year ago

Lies!! All lies!! Lol

by PsychologicalWeb5289 1 year ago

Dude… I've got caught when the crew was watering the hole ahead of me at my local course and the water smelled like straight ass. It def comes from this big stagnant pond on hole 17 lol

by Front-Library 1 year ago

Depends on the area. I deliver to rich neighborhoods. They literally have golf courses in their backyards, instead of more houses. It's a massive waste of land and water.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's done over a large space, but hard to say it "takes" the space. Golf courses are finely-manicured monoculture lawns. They like to greenwash nowadays and pretend like they're a wilderness preserve or something, but come on dudes..

by Ok-Tension 1 year ago

Yes of course I agree. Just sarcasm.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yeah but at least in my area, Sierra national forest it's just how nature is supposed to be ya know?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

What are your hobbies? Do they use resources?

by Chance_Forever 1 year ago

No you wouldn't

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Golf sucks because its boring, but one of the beatiful things about it is it leaves large open spaces for people to enjoy. Not everyone needs to be shoved into a apartment building on every acre like sardines in a can.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Hundreds of acres? How big are your golf courses?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

In the grand scheme of things, golf courses take up a miniscule percentage of even the settled land on earth. Looking down from a plane, you realize that they're actually tiny.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

But are still bigger than the other tiny things around it. Doesn't change the fact that they're a waste

by Inevitable-Alps 1 year ago

How is it a "waste" if people value playing golf enough to willingly pay the fees and the course earns enough revenue to cover its costs? I can think of far more wasteful things in the world than this, but unlike you I don't feel the need to pontificate on how others should use their land/money.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

If the privately owned golf course wasn't on the privately owned land, you still wouldn't be able to use it. Courses use recycled gray water, that's why the sprinklers run when you are being rationed.

by Humble-Leopard-2279 1 year ago

If they are able to exclude people then it is probably a private course and they can do whatever they want with their land. If it's a public course, the only way they can exclude you is if you don't have a tee time, and if they did, they'd have a nice lawsuit on their hands

by LessProcedure 1 year ago

I've never met a single person who wouldn't be allowed to access a golf course. I don't know who you're hanging out with.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Guaranteed per acre every golf course near me has more visitors per day than any community park. Plus without golf courses those parks wouldn't even have funding.

by Far_Turnover_9355 1 year ago

Take away the stick and it's walking...

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Not if you're driving a golf cart! Then it's just occasionally standing with the odd hobble here and there.

by Ok-Tension 1 year ago

Except on path only days. That's more walking than without a cart sometimes.

by PsychologicalWeb5289 1 year ago

All sports by this description are a waste of space and energy and could be something else. Space for housing isn't an issue in America. There is tons of empty space.

by HotButterscotch 1 year ago

Not orienteering

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Out of shape people who never use parks be like walking is bad. Why do you walk miles and hit balls and have fun and stay in shape. God if only we had another park we wont exercise in or use.

by Silver_Cow_2489 1 year ago

Rather there be a golf course somewhere then another neighborhood or strip mall or warehouses

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Golf courses are usually privately owned businesses. You seem to be suggesting they become public property (I'm assuming you mean affordable housing and not gated communities). So how do you plan on making that transition while keeping all parties whole?

by Chance_Forever 1 year ago

Most courses around me are run by the city and the county. Without them they wouldn't be able to fund a lot of the other parks projects in the area

by Far_Turnover_9355 1 year ago

We shouldn't keep them whole. We've ripped plenty of land from plenty of people and told them to shove it. Golfers just deserve that treatment more than just about anyone who has experienced it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Why exactly do they deserve it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Golf is a sobriety test; nothing more, nothing less.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

They are also forgetting the giant parking lots next to them. I'm pretty sure asphalt is worse than grass.

by Far_Turnover_9355 1 year ago

I'm not saying the total land usage is comparable, but water usage and total energy consumption starts to paint a different picture. There are tens of thousands of professional, college, high-school, junior-high football fields combined; each requiring millions and millions of gallons of water to maintain, which doesn't include the game day consumption of hundreds of thousands of gallons of water along with power and electricity needed to just turn the lights on. You act like it costs thousands of dollars to play a round of golf. There are tons of public courses and cheap places to spend half a day outside. Sure, the private clubs are pricey, but that same for everything else in America - more money for membership to better gyms, health clubs, resorts, spas. Every sport facility leaves a major carbon footprint while taking up space and not allowing constant access. You're being naive and reductive and stupid.

by Heavy_Major_2087 1 year ago

Why don't you go buy 120-180 acres and then you can do whatever you want with it that you feel is so much better. Where do you get off telling other people what they should be able to do with land they own just because you have an opinion?

by Luettgenjulio 1 year ago

What a crazy response. Imagine the outcry for another ‘sport or activity' that took up the same amount of space, cost a massive amount of money to get in, required a ton of resources and to keep it perfect, but was not geared to the wealthy.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

If I had enough money to buy that much land, I'd buy a golf course and close it

by Inevitable-Alps 1 year ago

I'm sure you won't have to worry about that

by Horaceabshire 1 year ago

Maybe if we go in together we could afford it. How much are you bringing to the table?

by Inevitable-Alps 1 year ago

Why some asshole should privatize 120 acres for their rich friends? And use the water of a whole city together with destroying all bio diversity? I agree with OP, golf courses are an aberration. One could have a city park, a forest or anything else for everybody to enjoy and that's not destroying water reserves while everybody is on water restriction

by DentistThen 1 year ago

Agreed. I make the same argument against cemeteries: A huge waste of land and resources.

by OriginalRespond 1 year ago

They should totally combine cemeteries and golf courses to conserve space

by Inevitable-Alps 1 year ago

I know, we should just take up an even bigger space and cover it in cement and asphalt, then bring in a bunch of dirty co2 generating cars (tens of thousands of them!) And pack them all in there. That would be way better!

by pstiedemann 1 year ago

Maybe don't live in a desert?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Hundreds of acres? Where tf you playing the corn fields of Nebraska? LoL!Maybe a few but hundreds? What an over exaggeration. Anywho's it I see you have may have not taken a swing at a golf ball yet because it actually takes a lot of skill. It is harder than it looks. Most golf courses are open to the public, meaning anyone can get a round in usually at a decent price and even maybe hit the driving range making it almost like a park. A lot of courses also include natural ponds and tons of natural plant growth all around. In the end it sounds as if what you hate is also what you'd love so maybe get some clubs and enjoy a beautiful day on the links. If you're lucky you get to rent a cart and sip brews smoke a cigar eat some decent food and bs with your folks while getting some sun and exercise. Why let a perfectly beautiful 100 of acre of land go to waste? Get out there and enjoy it. 🤘🏽

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Water used for golf courses doesn't just dissappear. Some of it keeps the ground moist, some of it goes back into lakes and creeks on the course, some of it evaporates back into the sky. Many golf courses, at least the ones I've seen in my area, use areas of the golf course as nature preserves. They'll have native wildflowers and native pollinators that attract bees and butterflies. The woods and grass also house a lot of animals like deer, raccoons, possums, squirrels, fox, coyotes, etc. When housing replaces a golf course, all these animals are displaced. In Minnesota during the winter, some public courses are open to the public for snowshoeing and cross country skiing so it turns into a recreation area for the community.

by rmorissette 1 year ago

Have you been to a golf course? With all the water, grasses, and trees they basically are nature reserves. So many ducks, geese, birds, rabbits, squirrels, bugs, etc. Way more than any other non-wild strip of land.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

"Golf is a good walk spoiled" - Mark Twain

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That's actually amazing and really cool to hear. I'm happy that some courses are taking the extra steps to at least be a haven for local flora and fauna, I genuinely didn't know that was a thing

by Inevitable-Alps 1 year ago

Don't care. I love it.

by Skozey 1 year ago

Here's an unpopular opinion — people who hate golf do so without any solid logical reasoning. They just hate what they perceive to be the domain of rich white guys. And that's a fun crowd to hate on these days. That's all. They've probably never set foot on a course or even swung a club. Most likely they're butt hurt about not being included in the foursome. All this talk of concern for the environment and blah blah blah is disingenuous halo-shining. I'm not rich, an old white guy, or a golf player. But this is just obvious.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I don't think a lush , beautifully kept series of lawns etc is a waste of space . Just saying . Like we have garbage dumps , oil fields etc .

by Equivalent_Stick 1 year ago

You can include insecticide in your appraising golf courses.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

OP. How do you feel about all the Dollar Generals poppin up like wild flowers?

by magnoliastark 1 year ago

Our golf courses are in flood plains. Some of them are used for sporting clays. No one is building in that space.

by Key_Garlic 1 year ago

If you're concerned about a waste of space then every single recreational activity is a waste of space. Especially the ones that need maintenance. A park is also a waste of space by your logic. Movie theaters, art museums, public plazas, etc. are all a pointless waste. Your opinion makes no sense.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

A golf course. Hmmm. Who benefits? The community.

by Jackielangosh 1 year ago

Golf is not a sport, it's a recreational hobby

by Hour_Ad4367 1 year ago

Golf courses ARE parks lol. And unlike most city parks they're not filled to the brim with homeless drug addicts. Just upload your swing if you're having trouble

by Ignatius88 1 year ago

Until you realize most golf courses are built over old landfills and other patches of land that are not good for anything else. And most use water from waste treatment plants that cannot be used for human consumption and would otherwise just release back into the wild.

by oleta71 1 year ago

Do we need more community parks? Are we running out of land?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Ha, joke's on you. Golf is a game, not a sport.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You got me. Opinion invalidated

by Inevitable-Alps 1 year ago

Have you ever golfed?

by One-Knowledge 1 year ago

How is it a waste of space? They're using it, right? To play something relaxing and fun. Most people do it just to get outdoors and enjoy themselves.

by feeneymervin 1 year ago

Roads take up a ton of space too. Let's get rid of those

by Alethaturner 1 year ago

We need roads

by Anonymous 1 year ago

We also need more moats.

by OkRide 1 year ago

Don't forget fertilizer run-off issues and the environmental harm that golf courses cause. I love golf, especially the short game. (I named my driver "Mr. Hook N. Slice"...) I just wish golf courses used better practices that weren't so harmful to the environment.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I honestly can't dispute anything you said. It is horribly wasteful and inefficient. It's also super boring to watch.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Idk there's a lot of dinner sports, cheerleader

by This-Neighborhood 1 year ago

I'll bet original golf was on natural clearings or rough, up to the putting green,which was then only level and manicured.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

They would use the land as something that would make them money. It's not for me. If you love it keep on playing.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Agreed. That said, love me some mini golf.

by angelica98 1 year ago

The people who play golf are trash. It's gotten a lot better than it used to be, but still

by Anonymous 1 year ago

water ration during the summer Wait until you learn about alfalfa being shipped to China.

by Key_Garlic 1 year ago

Also Saudi arabia

by Anonymous 1 year ago

FOUR!!!

by enajohnston 1 year ago

This isn't unpopular

by Anonymous 1 year ago

These are the words of someone who just got a quadruple bogey and threw their clubs into the water hazard.

by meredithmayert 1 year ago

Eh, its naive to think a lot of those courses would actually be turned into parks and not just paved. Hell, if some rich assholes want to spend all that $$$ to maintain that green area in an urban hellscape? More power to them.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think this is a popular opinion actually but... American football is a horrible sport too.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I would have said ultimate frisbee but to each their own.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

So on the point of turning it into a community park. Most of the courses around me are run by the city and county. So you money is going to the government. This money funds other parks programs. Also I can guarantee on any given day that golf course sees more people use it than the parks close by. On your point about water I will agree some courses use way too much water. But also golf courses are the #1 use of reclaimed water in the us. Reclaimed water is water collected from rain. A lot of ponds you see on golf courses are actually retention ponds that are used not just for looks but they actually have pumps connected to them that they use to water the course. At the end of the day everything takes up space. People need recreational activities. Movie theaters, bowling alleys, race tracks, sports stadiums, and so many other places are all technically wastes of spaces. If you want to get mad about water usage the farm that uses the most water in California is owned by saudis and the alfalfa they grow isn't even used in the us it is sent to Saudi Arabia. Why do they deserve tax breaks and cheap water?

by Far_Turnover_9355 1 year ago

Have you watched baseball or American football?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

In places like California, while undergoing a water crisis? Sure. I get it. But you're making it incredibly apparent you haven't spent much time in the south or Midwest. Most of our courses are in what would otherwise be empty fields. Instead, we have places of community where people can come to have fun while being outside and active.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

A good walk interrupted.

by Fun_Winter 1 year ago

I am not sure this is an unpopular opinion. As an occasional golfer, I completely agree. If it didn't exist, people would invent some other way to conspicuously consume to distance themselves from the plebeians.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yep. People in my area were mad about a golf course being converted into another housing development project and I was like ... And? Are there not like two dozen other golf courses within an hour's drive on a good day? There's at least two within twenty minutes of my home where the PGA used to have golf tournaments.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Where are you living that you have a water ration lmao

by Ivory90 1 year ago

Almost every golf course that operates in areas with water rationing have their own integrated irrigation systems that pull water from their own collection and usually if a golf course is bought and repurposed, its turned into a housing development.

by giovanihuel 1 year ago

Disc golf FTW! Golf ball is for angry boomers.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I've always felt this way. Always

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Golf and soccer are equally awful

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Wait til this guy realizes that golf courses all reuse water

by Anonymous 1 year ago

This boils down to sprinkler systems just for the sake of green grass being immoral since water is scarce in some places. Not big on Golf, but the people who own the corses maintain it out their own pocket. In dry countries like Saudi, or Australia, they often use desalinated water.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I was all set to agree with this opinion, but these reasons are terrible. Here are some much better reasons for hating golf: too expensive (green fees and equipment), slow pace, no action, games are too long, stupid clothing.

by Salty_Ingenuity 1 year ago

I genuinely loathe private golf clubs. They're an obscene display of wealth that only 1% of the population gets to enjoy. I feel like there is room in the world for some golf courses but they should be open to the public since they take up so much land. At the same time, golf is a luxury and when water is scarce, we have to put necessity above luxury.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Golf is a Garbage. sport It's a trash game to show off how wealthy you want other people to think you are.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I play golf, bought used clubs on ebay like 5 years ago for a fraction of the price, I play before the public courses open so I can play for free, and if I play when they're open, I play on the courses that charge 20 bucks max for 18 holes. Almost all my friends and coworkers play like this. We all play golf cuz it's the most satisfying sport we've ever played

by Status-Eagle5436 1 year ago

There is no waste of water. It gets used and rhen evaporates and then just rains somewhere else

by Anonymous 1 year ago

How this unpopular? ofc golf is garbage.

by Terryhester 1 year ago

Not unpopular anymore

by Free-Damage-6384 1 year ago

Golf was sold to the masses as being something people with class participated in. And they bought it like so many other things....

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Or maybe people like it because it's fun

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You absolutely MUST watch George Carlins clip Golf Courses for the Homeless!!!!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The worst is when stupid golf courses cut off a nice bike or walking path.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

My problem with it is mostly around the culture. Those stupid golf outfits. This ridiculous 80s-guy notion that you get ahead in business on the golf course. I'd go out with work people when I was in my 20s and it was all these middle aged dudes hitting on the drink-cart girl the whole time. There's no intensity. Ostensibly mature adults will make it their entire identity.

by Ok-Tension 1 year ago

I very much enjoyed golf myself but I agree A lot of your points. This is one of the reasons I Think mini golf is superior. It doesn't need nearly the amount of space , It doesn't take up a butt load of water. I will say it's a different type of skill set, though the normal golf

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's one of those rich, white folk sports too, like skiing, or boating. Useless BS. Whatever. Folks are gonna do what they do.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Golf is a garbage sport because of things that have nothing to do with the actual sport lol. I think you titled your opinion wrong.

by cielomorar 1 year ago

I never looked at it as a sport. Expensive game.

by Dangerous_Most 1 year ago

I don't think it's just golf. I think it's football, basketball and baseball. I don't like football and I was told it was unamerican. I had a guy friend who plays golf. He said he needed a pitching wedge. I googled it it's just a golf club.

by Low_Foot 1 year ago

True

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Bro, next time you are going for a nice long walk through a park with storm ponds, trails, trees, and wild life… bring a set of clubs. It is a great excuse to keep a space greem

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Golf is not a sport.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I can't stand golf (yes I've tried it.... hated it). But I don't consider golf a sport. It's a hobby or past time. And what I dislike the most about it is that you have to be quite. That's such BS.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Golf is for people who've let themselves physically but want to pretend they're still active and play "sports"

by Realistic_Honey 1 year ago

It's not a sport, unless you count bowling and darts as sports.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Did you 3 putt today?

by Eichmanncole 1 year ago