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The Ryder Cup Practice Cancelled
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20-09-2006 11:08am#1
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golf, like muppetry, cuts across all classes. true, theres a lot of snobbery and wannabe social climbing attached to golf, but its the muppet factor that really raises my heckles.
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agreed singingcherry, i don't think people do hate golf, i think maybe they are just sick of the incessant bombardment on news and advertisements, i know i am, and i'm going to it.
only thing about september is it's a given that the first few weeks of school make for glorious weather, guess we got it wrong this year,
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Bambi wrote:, but its the muppet factor that really raises my heckles.
That and the corporate sponsorship type thing
Care to explain the "muppet factor" to your audience ???0 -
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I think it's more anti Ryder-cup feeling out there than anything else; we've been bombarded for months now with the notion that it's the bigges friggin' thing that the country has ever seen, that it'll have an audience of millions and that it'll be the saviour of the tourism sector for the next gazillion years.
It's only recently that there's been more scrutiny of what's been puffed about the place; the *potential* audience is indeed huge. However, I'm not too sure how many *actual* people will watch it. quite a lot, I would think, but nowhere near as big as, the superbowl in the states, the FA cup in the UK or the GAA all-irelands here.
Factor in the idea that greedy rip-off merchants are setting out to, er, ride the incoming tourists seems to put paid to any idea of a lot of return business from our gaudily clothed transatlantic friends, although I hope i'm wrong.
Like i say, I'm not anti golf. Some of my best friends are golfers
. I do, however, believe that the beauty of the game lies in the premise of it being one man or one woman against the course (and nature). That's it. Period.
It's not a team game. It was never meant to be a team game. It's bloody ridiculous to have any shadow of a scintilla of an iota of a whisper of 'team' play about something that's so inherently individualistic as Golf. It's not like Ian Woosnam can hit a marvellous 3 wood drive, land in a bunker and say "Christ - i'm crap at these bunker shots, I'll have Montie bail me out".0 -
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grumpytrousers wrote:I think it's more anti Ryder-cup feeling out there than anything else; we've been bombarded for months now with the notion that it's the bigges friggin' thing that the country has ever seen, that it'll have an audience of millions and that it'll be the saviour of the tourism sector for the next gazillion years.
It's only recently that there's been more scrutiny of what's been puffed about the place; the *potential* audience is indeed huge. However, I'm not too sure how many *actual* people will watch it. quite a lot, I would think, but nowhere near as big as, the superbowl in the states, the FA cup in the UK or the GAA all-irelands here.
Factor in the idea that greedy rip-off merchants are setting out to, er, ride the incoming tourists seems to put paid to any idea of a lot of return business from our gaudily clothed transatlantic friends, although I hope i'm wrong.
Like i say, I'm not anti golf. Some of my best friends are golfers. I do, however, believe that the beauty of the game lies in the premise of it being one man or one woman against the course (and nature). That's it. Period.
It's not a team game. It was never meant to be a team game. It's bloody ridiculous to have any shadow of a scintilla of an iota of a whisper of 'team' play about something that's so inherently individualistic as Golf. It's not like Ian Woosnam can hit a marvellous 3 wood drive, land in a bunker and say "Christ - i'm crap at these bunker shots, I'll have Montie bail me out".
thats rubbish, golf started out as a team game in the 1300s in teams of 4. The majority of club golf is played as some kind of team event, whether foursomes, greensomes, scrambles etc etc. It's only the pros who play individual strokeplay all the time.0 -
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yes thank you; i meant if his name was pulled out of the hat....he's not a rabbitRuggieBear wrote:lol 0 -
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