Do you consider Golf a sport?

In golfing you have to have some talent.........I mean that **** is hard................I consider ping pong a sport..............Anything to get this world off its ass and do something...............I play golf now and then...............Its not that bad......for the first coulple holes.............But watching on tv is another thing.............

If wanting to watch it on tv considered if something was a sport or not........
Baseball would not be a sport..........Man that is boring to watch.....

Here.........in........the...........ninth.........2 runners on base.............the pitcher is calling his.........throw..........and the pitch..........ball........
..........Repeat in that slow depresing voice............

 

What about hunting and fishing? Two of my biggest hobbies. Aren't those sports?


I'll post again for the idiots.





sport
–noun
1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
2. a particular form of this, esp. in the out of doors.
3. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
4. jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
5. mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
6. an object of derision; laughingstock.
7. something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
8. something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
9. a sportsman.
10. Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.
11. Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
12. Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
13. Biology. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
14. Obsolete. amorous dalliance.
–adjective
15. of, pertaining to, or used in sports or a particular sport.
16. suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes.
–verb (used without object)
17. to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
18. to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
19. to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
20. to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions.
21. to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life.
22. Botany. to mutate.
–verb (used with object)
23. to pass (time) in amusement or sport.
24. to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often fol. by away).
25. Informal. to wear, display, carry, etc., esp. with ostentation; show off: to sport a new mink coat.
26. Archaic. to amuse (esp. oneself).

 

I think your definition just might be a little broad . Is posting on the bbs sport?

 

Moron, we're not looking for facts. Opinions only here. Douchebag. Go read your dictionary. Doodie eater.

Golf is not a sport. The board is nearly unanimous. Dingleberry.

 

uhhhh golf is clearly a sport?

if everyone here grew up playing golf, I doubt this debate would even be happening.

its almost like class, wealth, location, education etc. impact how people feel about things.

 

I played today and had fun. I think I would consider it a sport.

 

Yes, because that's the only form of "hunting" that exists.

 

1) I learned how to play golf when I was 5 years old.
2) I played regularly through high school.
3) I literally had a golf course that was attached to my back yard for 6 years while growing up. I mowed over golf balls on a regular basis
4) We used to shoot golf carts with sling shots while people were swinging from my bedroom window.
5) Anything done while drinking beer isn't a sport. Except croquet and washers and kuub and ping pong.

 

That clinches it for me. Only lesbians play real sports.

Man rule?

 

I would say ping pong is more of a sport than golf.

The pros are probably better athletes than most golfers.

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One more thing. When I call people doodie eater in a post. I expect people to not take me seriously!

 

Yes, one of the definitions for sport could be an active pastime or recreation. I consider golf an active pastime or recration. There's a difference between sport and athletics.

 

I know you werent being serious with your whole post but the point is taken.


1) i have never drank beer while playing golf. maybe i am just a purist
2)
... yikes i gotta go but i am finishing this brilliant post when i get back tonight

 

Nope not sports.

Yes it does....not as popular but more of a sport.

DD

 

Golf is by far (and not even close) the most difficult in terms of skill. That doesn't mean it's a sport though.

 

You must be one of those liberal yuppies.

Hunting and fishing is a sport. That's a non-debatable fact. Some of you are caught up in the notion that a "sport" is something where a ball is used and you're trying to beat someone on the scoreboard.

Move along now.

 

It's all personal feelings (with a few exceptions such as hunting and fishing, those aren't even debatable)
Eating can be a sport. Ask Kobayashi if he thinks eating hot dogs is a sport.

Watching a TV? Using a computer? It depends on your personal definition, although not necessarily a sport.