Should Golf be Banned?

[pogofish]

Are both/all the courses at St.A public souljacker? There's more than one, can't remember what they're called though.

There are six public courses at St Andrews, which include all the famous ones. A number of private courses are also in the area & there are even a few disused ones from the 1920's/30's golf boom.

There are also private clubs who have set-up facillities alongside & use these courses as well - The Royal & Ancient is probably the most famous & IIRC, it & possibly other private clubs are represented on the St Andrews Links Trust which has to manage the courses for all interests.

 

[mk12]

25% of golfers in the UK are manual workers

 

[nonamenopackdrill]

25% of golfers in the UK are manual workers

Almost my entire workplace goes out on a Saturday. They're not manual workers, but they're not exactly rich.

 

[geminisnake]

25% of golfers in the UK are manual workers

Which means 75% aren't I know unemployed people who play golf!!!

 

[pogofish]

25% of golfers in the UK are manual workers

Yup, there is a strong tradition of WC membership in certain clubs here & there are a good number of courses that are well-established community enterprises/resources as well. Also, the relationship between them & the "posh"/monied clubs does seem to be genuinely equitable - with members of each welcome to use each other's greens & clubhouses. I suppose it is the aspirational ladder thing or to ensure they have someone to play against?

Unfortunately, IME this makes them no better than the millionares playparks when it comes to enacting & maintaining utterly daft rules tho.

 

[perplexis]

People should definitely be allowed to play golf. But in the old-school fashion - twatting a ball around the countryside as a sort of accessory to a good country walk. All this formalised manicured lawns guff is total crap.
Golf courses should be banned, IMO, but nto the game, I mean, however dull it is, it shouldn't be like, outlawed ('cos then we have to start on bowls, curling, dressage, Crufts... most sport and anything else I find fucking tedious )

 

[Flashman]

Golf is brilliant.

 

[souljacker]

Golf is brilliant.

I'm with you Flash

 

[Mungy]

Jesus Christ !! Ban this, Stop that, Pointless, boring da da da da da !! what exactly do you whingeing buggers want the country to be like? Ban keeping horses FFS ! So even more of the countryside becomes redundant and ends up looking like Milton Keynes I suppose ! Yes, some people who play golf are bastards, a bit like some people from just about any kind of pursuit you care to mention are bastards, Hello!! If London is too crowded, move out FFS!
Oh & how increasing coverage of the tour de France represents a victory for 'exciting' sport on TV I do not know

if we could all have horses and a bit of land to keep em on then fair enough. years ago it made sense to have a horse for travel, ploughing your fields that kind of thing. it has a purpose. people prancing around on a horse every now and then and keeping the bloody things in a field because they have more money and/or time on their hands than sense is a waste of good land that could be used as a small holding for some pillock like me who would rather drop out of the system and become self sufficient. *breathes*

i'd miss the interweb though

 

[Hi-ASL]

People should definitely be allowed to play golf. But in the old-school fashion - twatting a ball around the countryside as a sort of accessory to a good country walk. All this formalised manicured lawns guff is total crap.

I sort of agree with this but think golf should be transferred to an urban setting: see how many balls you can put through the window of number 25 in a 10-minute spell; who'll be first to bounce one of the roof of nuber 38's garage, etc.

 

[Mungy]

I sort of agree with this but think golf should be transferred to an urban setting: see how many balls you can put through the window of number 25 in a 10-minute spell; who'll be first to bounce one of the roof of nuber 38's garage, etc.

maybe move all golfers into some kind of conentration camp with golf balls with a timer and some kind of explosive device. it might even work for football too

 

[Greebozz]

In many countries despite droughts and a lack of clean drinking water...Golf courses for rich tourists come first.There are lush Golfing Greens in some suprising places..In the Uk they take up loads of land..Which might be OK if everyone had more than enough room but london is getting more and more densely populated.....So is it time to ban Golf?

Good post, I hate Golf the TV and radio coverage,I find it an obsenity in these times of poverty and war, how fucking shameful to be caring about whether a millionare hits a ball in a hole.

 

[Mr Retro]

In many countries despite droughts and a lack of clean drinking water...Golf courses for rich tourists come first.There are lush Golfing Greens in some suprising places

Like where?

 

[Hi-ASL]

Like here.

 

[Mr Retro]

Hard to justify watering a golf course in the fucking Sahara, I'll give you that.

If its being built for rich tourists will the money spent in the local economy justify it's existence though?

 

[tarannau]

Hard to justify watering a golf course in the fucking Sahara, I'll give you that.

If its being built for rich tourists will the money spent in the local economy justify it's existence though?

Nope, because very little money will go back into the local economy.

Golfing tourists don't tend to want local food and drink - they'll eat from the sanitised international menu at the hotel, often containing the same (non local) foodstuffs they'd eat at home. The same craving for 'international' standards mean that the golf course's designers, management and higher end staff will generally be imported from abroad, meaning that the net flow of cash will tend to be outwards.

Sadly, the locals tend to get the bum standard, low paying jobs. And in return they'll get to 'benefit' from rising property values, the degradation of the local environment and often the monopolisation of scarce water resources.

 

[Bomber]

if we could all have horses and a bit of land to keep em on then fair enough. years ago it made sense to have a horse for travel, ploughing your fields that kind of thing. it has a purpose. people prancing around on a horse every now and then and keeping the bloody things in a field because they have more money and/or time on their hands than sense is a waste of good land that could be used as a small holding for some pillock like me who would rather drop out of the system and become self sufficient. *breathes*

i'd miss the interweb though

Oh shit yeah ! ? I'd forgot about the burgeoning numbers of 'Good Lifers' simply queing up to become vegetable hippies FFS !
I live in an area where there are a lot of riding schools, horse rescue centres and even a local racing stable, yes all in that rural paradise called Stoke on Trent !!
Believe me the people utilising these facilities are most definitely NOT people with "more money and/or time on their hands than sense". They are working people pursuing something they enjoy because they have earned it and do us all a favour by keeping the town planners away from fields that would be simply eaten up if nutters like you had your way! Self sufficient my arse !!

 

[Mungy]

Oh shit yeah ! ? I'd forgot about the burgeoning numbers of 'Good Lifers' simply queing up to become vegetable hippies FFS !
I live in an area where there are a lot of riding schools, horse rescue centres and even a local racing stable, yes all in that rural paradise called Stoke on Trent !!
Believe me the people utilising these facilities are most definitely NOT people with "more money and/or time on their hands than sense". They are working people pursuing something they enjoy because they have earned it and do us all a favour by keeping the town planners away from fields that would be simply eaten up if nutters like you had your way! Self sufficient my arse !!

riding schools and horse rescue centres are good productive things that may well provide work for people who love horses (not in the biblical sense obviously) and certainly provide a service, that may well be beneficial to all parties concerned. horse racing is a different kettle of fish. like golf and many other so called sports it is completely useless.

at no point have i suggested that the countryside should be urbanised. two or three small holdings would suffice, where the land does not have a use other than keeping horses on for entertainment.

i would object to being called a nutter, but according to my doctor it is true.

 

[chieftain]

It surpises me but a good few of my friends now play golf, more have taken it up in the last few years as they entered there 30's, none of them are particulary rich, none of them are arseholes.... they see it as an interest and a hobbie...

If Golf were banned or restricted its highly unlikely that the land would be left to return to the wild so what would you rather have.. golf courses, more agricultural land or more buildings?

and

What would become of my friends during the day at weekends.... I sure as hell dont want them bothering me so golf keeps them busy and me happy!

 

[BIG davie H]

not a chance i live on the west lancs coast line and the are 15 golf courses near my house one only a two mins walk, which was used for the final qualies for the open, i play golf at least 3 times a week and would be lost without it

i was drages up on hillside golf club weremy dad was the steward, and we lived in the flat in the golf club house hillside is the course next to royal birkdale which hosts the open in 2008, so it will be great to re visit, i also had a great two days at hoylake at the open, watcing tiger was fucking fab

 

[bi0boy]

It's good for mushrooms, so I say don't ban it but restrict broadcasting or discussion of it to subscription-only satellite television.