why is golf considered as a challenge?
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Golf is a game you can never be good enough at.  There's always a better way to drive, putt, chip, etc.  It's a very challenging sport that anyone with enough body parts can play but very few really get good at it.  It's also addictive.  I live in a Florida community where everyone has a golf cart garage and these old people hit the courses as soon as it gets light out every day and they're dead serious about it, then the rest of the day they talk about golf and watch the Golf channel and look for better clubs to buy.  It's really kind of funny.
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I didn't read the other two answers ahead of me, but I can tell you why I love golf. \n\nObviously the point of golf is to get the ball in the hole in the fewest number of strokes possible. A two year old could figure that out. But that's kind of like saying the point of painting is to cover the canvas in as few strokes as possible. It just doesn't cut to the heart of the matter, the statement misses the point. \n\nTo me golf is an art form, I've played the game at a high level, as a former apprentice member of the PGA of America, but I know that on any given day there are thousands and thousands of golfers in the world who can beat me easily, even on my best day. So automatically the point of the game, to get the ball in the hole in the fewest strokes possible, is unattainable to me. \n\nHowever, when it comes to hitting the shots that I want to hit, when I want to hit them, making putts, getting up and down from greenside bunkers, recovering from bad holes or shots....I can still compete with myself, and against the course. This is the true challenge of golf to me, simply competing against the course and trying to be the best I can be. \n\nNow you mentioned drinking and driving around in a cart. To me that aspect of the game is garbage, total garbage and it's exactly what's wrong with the game. It's why a round of golf takes 5 or 6 hours to play 18 holes on a weekend. Weekend hackers think that it's their duty to get hammered and play golf....why? I have no idea! Would you play $60.00 bucks to do something and then get smashed to the point that you no longer can enjoy yourself or compete at what you set out to do??? It's moronic. \n\nI consume alcohol, buy I've never mixed drinking and glof, at least not until the 19th hole. And I'll walk a good majority of the time, it keeps me concentrating on hitting good shots and also enjoying the outdoors and getting some exercise while I'm at it. \n\nThis may be hard for some to believe, but my dad and I used to play 36 holes in under 2 hours on our local muni.....we'd go out after the last leagues, at about 6 p.m., and play until dark, we'd skip around the other players on the course, and it would be a rare night that we didn't play 36. No drinking, no messing around, just playing good golf and having fun.....that's the heart of the game, enjoying yourself and competing against the course. \n\nIf you're just going out there to drink, ride around in a cart, and slap some shots around.....do us all a favor and go play mini-golf.
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1- golf is the hardest sport because you can play terrible 75% of the time and still win \n2- golf is the hardest sport because it takes the most mental control, balance, hand/ eye coordination, you just cant be strong and fast to do good in this sport.. you have to have finesse and control over every shot and in every situation\n3- golf is the only sport i know that you can play well hung over and play better once you get some drinks in you\n4- great for any kind of business and besides you people everybody loves golf
1098951
easier and pays more is Golf\nless expensive is tennis\n\nI wish you the best, both are good sport and will be fun
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because they haven't tried it?? golf isn't really an everyday type of sport that is easily mastered..(let alone one that u grow up with)...it's also because it's what i call a "quite" sport, for many the definition of sport includes beer, loud chearing and chearleaders...
52676
Golf is a great game, you do know what GOLF stands for right? Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbiden. :) YAY GOLF!!
1106364
how is this a golf question?
582802
if i could i would surly put math problems as a sport because there are many people who are great at math and will love to compete with other mathematicians.it may just be exciting seeing people try their best to answer a difficult sum and each time they get it wrong they have to go back to the start.
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Sport! Golf requires PHYSICAL SKILL, which is the definition of "sport". Checkers is a "game", which requires no physical skill. \n\nAnd for those who don't think golf requires physical skill, go try to hit a ball longer than 180 yards to a landing area no wider than 20 yards sometime. Most would be lucky to get 1 in 10 in the zone.
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There is no "perfect" swing (absent a Bobby Jones or a Ben Hogan).\n\nLook at Jim Furyk, Arnold Palmer and Ernie Els and see there's no one correct method.\n\nThe key is to find something that (A) works and (B) is repeatable.
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Golf is a game and not a sport.  It is like billiards or bowling, neither of which are sports.  Not saying there isn't skill involved because there is, it just isn't very athletic.  It is more like a walk in the park with a purpose.\n\nMore proof that this golf is a game and not a sport is that female player from Hawaii, Michelle Wei,  I dunno how to spell her name... but she was trying to make history by playing with the men.  No offense to women, but there is no way any woman could match up to a man in a real sport.\n\nI don't wanna hear about how sexist I am... it is a simple fact of life that men are superior to women in physical ability and strength, just like women are superior to men when it comes to matters of the heart.
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For me it is conquering something that has been a challenge for a long time. The thrill of achieving something I never knew possible.\n\nBut for sports kind of rushes... pulling off a perfect 4-way skydiving with lots of points, or mountainboarding some extreme slope without eating rock.
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Golf (gowf in Scots) is a game where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. It is defined in the Rules of Golf as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."\n\nGolf originated in Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. The oldest course in the world is The Old Links at Musselburgh. Golf, in essentially the form we know it today, has been played on Scotland's Musselburgh Links since 1672, and earlier versions of the game have been played in the British Isles and the low-countries of Northern Europe for several centuries before that. Although often viewed as an elite pastime, golf is an increasingly popular sport that can be played for one's entire life.\n\nAmerican football, known in the United States and Canada [1] simply as football, is a competitive team sport. The object of the game is to advance the football towards the opposing team's end zone and score points. The ball can be advanced by carrying the ball, or by throwing or handing it from one teammate to the other. Points can be scored in a variety of ways, including carrying the ball over the goal line, throwing the ball to another player past the goal line or kicking it through the goal posts on the opposing side. The winner is the team with the most points when the time expires and the last play ends.\n\nOutside of the United States and Canada, the sport is usually referred to as American football (or sometimes as gridiron or gridiron football) to differentiate it from other football games, especially association football (soccer) and rugby football. American football evolved as a separate sport from rugby football in the late 19th century. Arena football is a variant of American football. Canadian football is a close relative to the sport with a few key differences; the word "football" in Canada can mean American football or Canadian football depending on context.\n\nAssociation football, soccer, or simply football is a team sport played between two teams consisting of eleven players each. It is a ball game played on a rectangular grass field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by maneuvering the ball into the opposing goal. Other than the goalkeepers, players may not use their hands or arms to propel the ball in general play. The winner of the match is the team that has scored most goals at the end of the match. The sport is known by many names throughout the English-speaking world, although football is the most common. Other names, such as association football and soccer, are often used to distinguish the game from other codes of football, since the word football may be used to refer to several quite different games.\n\nThe origins of football are thought to be over 2000 years old. Indeed, in 2004, football's governing body Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) officially acknowledged that China was the birthplace of football, when people played the sport of cuju around 200 BC. Association football in paticular dervived out of games played at public schools in England in the Nineteenth Century.
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Hello David\n\nGolf is a game of honesty and integrity, it is the only sport that one calls a penalty on themselves even when playing alone. Golf teaches ettequette, manors and respect for others and for the game its self.\nIt is one of the few games you can play poorly and still enjoy it and its a game for all ages, even some blind folks play golf.\n\nIn short, golf is good.\n\nLeon
730851
Yes. It is a demanding sport and requires strength, coordination, and stamina. Try playing it and you will see.
494851
Yeah, that's part of the design of the irons, supposed to make them more forgiving. See here for info:\n\nhttp://www.golfdigest.com/hotlist
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Frankly, I think it rolls like this:\n\n- Golf. By FAR the hardest game to master. This isn't to say it's the toughest because it's not THAT physically demanding, but it involves precise movements and techniques to perfect a swing, read a green, putt with acccuracy...\n\n- Baseball. For some of the same reasons. Pefecting a swing is one of the hardest things there is to master in sports...Learning how to throw a ball that moves in various directions as well as over 90 MPH...It takes great coordination and vision.\n\n- Hockey. Skating with all the equipment that players wear, learning how to control and pass a puck that moves well over 100 MPH, while trying to avoid collisions...\n\n- Football. Since there are so many different positions all that required different skills, no one player has to master every phase...Placekickers and punters, long snappers, etc. This is game everyone can play, some better than others. But physically, this can be the hardest game to play due to the contact which is on EVERY PLAY..\n\nBasketball. Whatta ya need to play? Sneakers, shorts, a ball and a hoop...you may suck and not able to shoot worth a damn, but if you're tall and jump a little, you've made the team...