Golf is not a sport

You may be shocked. Although not much endurance needed, the act of properly hitting a golf ball is quite difficult and generally good players are good athletes in other sports. When you add in the stress and adrenaline of hitting shots under pressure in competition, it sure feels like a sport.

Well, true enough, OP: Golf is a game, not a sport.

There's nothing wrong with games! They're fun to play and fun to watch.
They're just not sports.

BTW basketball, football (both kinds), hockey, baseball, etc., are also games and not sports.

Golfers have better coordination than tennis players. And way better than goobers like you. And muscles are not required. I'm no body builder (being a former runner) and I can hit the ball plenty far. One of my usual group is a 5'6" skinny Asian guy with a 1 or 2 handicap, less muscle than me and he hits it 275.

ALso male tennis players are often big and tall. Being "jacked" is not helpful. Long levers are helpful. At least serving.

I'm sure Tiger Woods and his billion dollar net worth are devastated by this

a sport must be both athletic and sensible.

golf is not a sport because the players aren't athletes. More like archery or billiards, skills, so what.

but many "athletic" contests aren't a sport either, wasting the athleticism on silliness. For example male gymnasts are supremely fit, but the contest is to do flips and tricks on a bar, or even prance about on a floor mat in a leotard. Not a sport, or even anything most dudes would want to be seen doing. Only exception is the rings contest

One of golf's greatest athletes.

Before getting too critical of golf let’s look at T&F/XC

1. heavy ball toss

2. run and hop over things

3. spear chuck

4. on all fours with butt in the air then run

5. the weird stick hand off race

6. run in the mud

7. run so far your legs spaz out & fall down

need I go on

Ok one more

8. reverse limbo (high hop)

Having played golf for over 50 years( 1 or 2 handicap at age 70) and played in many US Open Sectional Qualifying tournaments. I can say golf is a difficult skill. But 99% of instructors make it so. At any age don't go and start blasting Drivers and Long Irons at a range. Start by doing half shots with a 6 ot 7 iron. Off a good mat or good grass. Don't practice 'Bad Lies" or "tight lies" yet. Your feet should be only couple inches apart. Learn to swing the arms and' freely release' throught impact. Don't try to 'delay your wrist break''. That's baloney! Butch Harmon told me so himself! Do several months ofthis 50% backswing drills even without a ball on a home mat. Even very sl9w motion. In front of a mirror if possible. Later move the feet further apart, say four to 5 inches. Start turning your hips a little so the left knee turns a little behind the ball. Again do several months of this. Until you think you are ready for 90% backswing. Take film of you swing and compare your impact area to Tiger, Rory, etc. To see if you are releasing your arms/wrists as they do. Even though he used different shafts, Bobby Jones, might have had the greatest swing ever according to Gary Player. There was nothing contrived about it. As for the short game and putting that is mostly completely different swing( in many cases.

Definition of sport: an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Golf ticks the box to both of those. Nowhere does it state that you can’t be overweight or obese. If that was the case tonnes of sports would be wiped out under this criteria. Sumo wrestling would be number one to strike off the list.

This is true. Golf is not a sport.

Maybe 50 years ago, there were some overweight golfers on the PGA tour, but almost all of them now look fit.

I worked with some guys that played golf in HS and college, and they were good athletes. Having a good golf swing requires athleticism and good eye-coordination. Many great athletes like Michael Jordan have been mediocre at golf.

This is the kind of meme trolling that is actually funny because golf is hillarious. Bowling is the same. I put them in the same category as eSports.

Golf is for people who drive £50,000 range rovers but race a 25 minute parkrun.

Completely agree. I can’t stand the “that’s not a sport crowd” whether it's baseball, running, or golf. It doesn’t matter if the competitors are obese. Like it or hate it competitive physical activity is a sport.

Disc golf is a more real sport than ball golf

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