Hmmm... you just gave me an idea. Wanna go bowling? THAT's a sport, b*tches. Use your arm... release the BALL... wait... where's the cart? Oh, no... that's golf... I'll just wait my turn like baseball... sittin' down...
The amount of hurdles golf has to overcome to convince some of you is just silly... You can dribble and shoot hoops by yourself, is basketball no longer a sport? I can tumble some (well...er...used to ), is gymnastics no longer a sport? I can swim ... ok? In golf you try to shoot the best score sure...just like in track you try to run/jump the fastest or in swimming .. well... swim the fastest...yet to win you only have to beat your opponent. How's that differ from golf? As for 'reacting to opponents', please...just too easy. Where's the 'defense' in swimming, diving, gymnastics, track and field, skiing, rowing, etc etc .. although the imagery of adding 'defense' to some of these can be midly amusing.
The difference is the strolling to the ball between strokes with a caddy carrying your bag of clubs. I enjoy golf a lot, but IMHO it is not a true sport -- It is a mental game like frisbee golf or washers. At least in frisbee golf you carry your own bad and there are no carts.
Yes, in my opinion, swimming, diving, track, none of that is a sport. And when you shoot hoops by yourself, that's not a sport either - that's what we call "practice". FYI: I'm not saying that track and things like that can't be entertaining or aren't worthwhile pursuits. But you haven't answered my question. How is golf different from the Home Run Derby? If it isn't, are you calling the Home Run Derby a sport too?
I don't think that physical exertion is what makes a sport. I'm sure the average golfer gets a better workout than the FG kicker on a football team, and football is obviously a sport.
Please, do look up the definition of the word "sport". That is the only way to define since everyone seems to make up the definition here.
Maybe football is a sport but the place kicker is not really a participant. There is a reason Payton Manning talked about Vanderjagt with such scorn.
If he tackles someone then he has made a great and rare play for a placekicker. Usually they just get made to look foolish when they even try to tackle someone. Kickers are an integral part of winning, but they are the lowest on my scale of football athletes. That is why they need special rules to protect them (that and the fact that they put themselves into a very vulnerable position when they kick). Anyway, he said FG kicker, so if he is making an attempt to tackle someone, then the play was horribly botched.
I think eating competition is a sport. It is competitive and governed by rules. And I don't think many people would play it as a game for recreation.
I don't play golf, but of course it's a sport. Why is this even being questioned? If you're actually trying to argue about what a sport "should be" or "means to me" then I guess dictionaries and encyclopedias must make you really mad, what with all those dumb definitions in them This thread belongs in D&D
By you "special rules" factor, I think QuarterBacks should not be a participant and also low on your scale, then. I was the placekick holder in High School. Am I lower than the kicker in your grand scale of things? I DID tackle people and I did participate.
exactly.. i've been saying this in last 3 posts. People tend to believe what they want to believe and see what they want to see. They wont look at the dictionary cause the definition there does not satisfy their own definitions.
Hell yeah you are. We didn't even have a place kick holder, we just had the quarterback do it (which also provides the threat of fake field goals). Quarterbacks are also lower on my scale than most of the other players. They should be subject to the same hits as everyone else. Maybe if they wore real pads they wouldn't have so many problems.
Lol, is golf a sport or is it even exercise? ____________ Is golf exercise? Study says fitness in the bunker ... America's amateur golfers are an unhealthy group, according to an unscientific online survey published in the August issue of Golf Digest. Among the results from the 514 mostly male subscribers who responded: 66 percent are overweight. "I'd go along with that," said Voekel, patting his round belly before heading for the fairways. "Can't you tell?" "Fifty-four percent consider themselves overweight, and the fact is that 66 percent ARE overweight, so some are in touch with reality, and others are not," he said. "I also thought it was really interesting that 80 percent suffer from some sort of pain, injury or illness but continue to play. They're still out there because they love the game." Thirty percent said they were unable to finish a round because of an ailment. "I shouldn't even be here," said Homer Bullock, 71, of Farmers Branch, scars visible on each knee as he lounged in his golf cart in front of the pro shop. "I've had both knees replaced, a shoulder replaced ..." "And three stints," added longtime golfing buddy Glen Sullivan, 70, of Lewisville. msnbc
