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Obviously someone has never played golf.

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My dad always said golf was a great way to ruin a walk around a pasture. He was a farmer, not a golfer.

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Interestingly golf was invented by farmers. Shepherds letting their sheep graze in the links land (sandy grassland near the coast) in Scotland invented the target game to play with sticks and rocks to help pass the time as the sheep grazed. So at least some farmers disagree.

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And a fan of Mark Twain.

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And always played against Colonel Bogey.

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I think I’ve heard it came from him. But I have only read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and a page or 2 from Roughing it (about the Mormon women), so I haven’t come across it myself. :slight_smile:

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It’s one of those things that he probably never actually said but is almost always attributed to him so he gets the credit.

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I seriously don’t understand the allure of golf.

[I’m not asking for an explanation]

Sumo – that I understand. Big guys throwing/shoving each other around. Even when they’re small guys, you’ve got man-to-man competition.

BOOM!

Golf?

What the heck is that crap? Who thought -that- would be compelling?

Bored shepherds/goat-herders, fine, but they could have been knitting some socks and doing something useful instead of whacking at rocks.

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dude 1: Man, watch how far I can hit this thing!

dude 2: Yeah, bet you a week’s worth of ale that you can’t hit that fence post over there.

dude 1: miss - miss - miss - hits it. Sure did! Only took me 4 strokes. Double-or-nothing you can’t do it any better.

dude 2: miss - miss - hits it. Pay up!

dude 1: no fair, your first shot was like twice as long as my first one, because you used a bigger stick.

dude 2: tough noogies, you wanna hit farther, pick a different stick.

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I’m trying to decide if I should quote this and put it in the Things that bother you more than they should thread given the placement of that trash can.

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… and who left the seats up?! (No toilet paper in reach, either.)

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I feel the opposite. I don’t play either, and i don’t watch either. But i don’t see the appeal of big men bumping into each other. Whereas golf is the intersection of power and precision. I didn’t get it until Michael Moschen, the juggler, explained it.

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thanks for sharing, that was really cool.

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Is that some sort of weird homage to our 43rd President?