Cricket and golf - what for??

Both sports are so that those who know to do them can feel superior to those that don't. Where else will you find bogies, albatrosses and par (what a stupid word!), doesn't cricket have that other famously stupid word googlies. Proves your point really.

 

Golf is brilliant! My darling wife loves the game, and plays most days, so I can ride my bikes! Downside is I know more about golf than any non-player I know ;-)

 

Arrrgghh! Play off in the Masters, and motogp has started on BBC1. Wounded, still she's worth it!

 

Should have been the post.....

 

Nowt wrong with golf, I used to play a lot. And I spent 6 months working on Peter Alliss' house years back, during which time my handicap went from 24 to 14; he's a very nice man indeed. My old man was a scratch golfer; we had a round of golf with Lee Trevino and Ian Woosnam and the old man whupped the pair of 'em

Then I decided it was a stupid game and quit. Haven't played for twenty years.

 

Cricket is art and poetry , golf is a pastime that has been commercialised

 

Anything using round balls is a game and not a sport. Was it Hemingway who said (in the '30s I suppose) that the only sports were mountain climbing, bull fighting and motor racing as you stood a good chance of getting killed while doing them

 

Ah well, best take up mountain climbing them, cause the other two are being sanitized out of existence............

 

The great Lee Travino was struck by lightning three times playing golf, does that count.
Steve

 

I've just looked up golf on wikipedia.

It's a game played by men with small balls.....apparently! :wink:

 

Not quite right, the ball size was increased about 20 years ago.
Steve

 

Guess he would add a few extreme sports onto that list nowadays. But cant see golf or cricket being included :biggrin:

 

Cricket is the most tedious sport of all. Only the english could invent a game that takes a week to play and means they win if it rains...

 

I remember years ago when I use to do clay pigeon shooting when we were bored at practice we would shoot golf balls, they go a really long way. It made us laugh a lot, you can see I was brought up in the country can't you, we find very simple things amusing.

 

Hehe.. she liked that! Worth a try but Masters only once a year, so let it go (Coward that I am!)

 

Cricket! Watching Shane Warne

 

Golf is the game you play before you die.....

AL.

 

What diameter were these golf balls?.........Or did you just pretend the clays had gone a long way?

Yep......I wasn't brought up in the country, but have done a helluva lot of shooting........It really amazes me how big a golf ball litter can be, when you stumble across one of their burrows......Vermin apparently....:wink:

AL

 

Both cricket and golf are infinitely better than snooker or darts...