Golf Course ruined

GreeBo

pickarooney wrote:

You have to include green fees/membership in any discussion about the relative elitism of football and golf, not to mention the dress codes and cronyism that are part and parcel of the game.

ARGH!!!!
<runs away holding head>
No you bloody well dont!
P U B L I C C O U R S E S ! ! !
If you dont like/cant afford private clubs and their "rules" then go play at a private club, if, like pickarooney, you dont even play, what the hell is your problem?

Does Tiger Woods have a dresscode when he chats to his "Cronies"?

ShiverinEskimo

GreeBo wrote:

versus latest Soccer Jersey, expensive boots and potential fatal injury from falling off the climbing frame?

I'll take your other pints on board. But the above i disagree with. You don't need a soccer jearsey to play football in the park or boots. And climbing frames aren't normally used in a game of football.
I guess my point isn't how easy it is to pick up, but how accessible it is.
one football costs 10 maybe 20 euro among anything up to 10 to 20 kids.
Golf however is slightly more expensive when you take 20 kids into effect.

GreeBo

ShiverinEskimo wrote:

I'll take your other pints on board. But the above i disagree with. You don't need a soccer jearsey to play football in the park or boots. And climbing frames aren't normally used in a game of football.
I guess my point isn't how easy it is to pick up, but how accessible it is.
one football costs 10 maybe 20 euro among anything up to 10 to 20 kids.
Golf however is slightly more expensive when you take 20 kids into effect.

Likewise you dont need a full set of clubs or even a bag to play golf.

Climbing frames are usually found in playgrounds, which are the whole point of this golf -v- playgrounds discussion.

Expense isnt really a valid argument IMO, lots of things are expensive doesnt make 'em wrong.
Conkers are cheap, stop spending money on playgrounds and plant more Chestnut trees! Damn councils wasting money on playgrounds...

ShiverinEskimo wrote:

but how accessible it is.

and building less courses makes it more accessible because.......

adjodlo

Slunk wrote:

Yeah I noticed the thick knackers spelt road wrong.But it just goes to show they can do what they like.

knackers can't spell.



Stupid knackers.

pickarooney

Sorry, I didn't realise there was such thing as a public golf course. I'd never seen one, and stand corrected.
How much is it to play on one, on average? I must check it out next time I'm home.

chump

Greenfees for public curses are as cheap as chips, especially for a student or child. 2euro up to 6euro maybe for yung uns.

Coming from a golfing town where people of any financial background play it, some of the best from the council estates it's gas to see some of you people write off the game as an elitist expensive game for twats, which is only looking at one group who happen to play it.

You can't write off soccer because scum play the game.

It's primarily a social game at the level it's played in Ireland. Any kids who play it here play it while also playing soccer or gaa or whatever, usually they're sports enthusiasts... and they enjoy it

I don't play much, not a member of a club, would have played as a guest a few times and a few times on public courses...

I'm think some of you have a bad take on the game...