Golf Lockdown Discussion ** No discussion of breaking Restrictions **

bustercherry

The Big Easy wrote: »

I think the point most are missing or unwilling to consider is when does restricting the movement of citizens become illegitimate?

For some it's never legitimate, but most of us are reasonable and I do believe we decided together as a people to do what we could to protect the elderly and vulnerable, which we have done.

We have been let down by the health infrastructure and public health management; that they could not reward our sacrifices with a lower death toll. The vast majority of deaths are institutional; nursing homes, healthcare facilities and hospitals.

They are not the fault of young people meeting outside to have a drink and blow off steam, the sacrifices the young people in this country have made are completely underappreciated and disregarded by many, mostly by those they have been protecting!

If we weren't currently in lockdown, no one would be advocating entering one, most people will defend the status quo no matter how illogical.

The logic of staying in level 5 so we don't have to be in level 5 is mind-bendingly illogical.

Please God the end is now in sight.

Dear god millennial generation whinging again. Lucky fcukers didn't have to go live through Saipan 2002 otherwise they would have known what a real heartache and national crisis was.

bustercherry

Scott Tenorman wrote: »

Can't speak for everyone else but i understand the rationale for what they did- I just disagree with it.

Shutting down entire industries that have proven themselves to be safe (the burden of proof should lie with the government, not the industries but anyway..) isn't actually achieving anything but destroying peoples ability to pay mortgages, bills and in some cases closing their businesses for good.

We are supposed to be "Living With Covid". Lets do that instead of this.

Good job you not making public policy. We are back into the realms of why can't do this over this nonsense.

Scott Tenorman

bustercherry wrote: »

Good job you not making public policy. We are back into the realms of why can't do this over this nonsense.

Good one! :rolleyes:
Do you not believe golf is safe? If you don't I trust you won't be playing when it reopens?

Seve OB

bustercherry wrote: »

Dear god millennial generation whinging again. Lucky fcukers didn't have to go live through Saipan 2002 otherwise they would have known what a real heartache and national crisis was.

I’d hardly call the Big Easy a millennial

Russman

Scott Tenorman wrote: »

Good one! :rolleyes:
Do you not believe golf is safe? If you don't I trust you won't be playing when it reopens?

I think everyone knows golf is safe, that's not really in dispute no matter what side one takes in the COVID/golf debate. Its all the stuff around the "playing a game of golf" that is of concern to govt. - car sharing, meeting people, etc etc. They simply want to reduce contacts. As lots of posters have said, I hate not being able to play, but I can understand why they did what they did.

Kingswood Rover

bustercherry wrote: »

Dear god millennial generation whinging again. Lucky fcukers didn't have to go live through Saipan 2002 otherwise they would have known what a real heartache and national crisis was.

Think that was Bad what about Rovers getting beat time after time by Dublins Number 2 now thats tough. Thank fook those dark days are over. This thing is done a few more months then its feck off back to the bats, wonder could we vaccinate the bats revenge porn style.

Luckycharm

gypsy79 wrote: »

Our committee was told that by our operator that they are VERY confident of reopening on April 5th

They hinted strongly that there confidence was from conversations with government

Do you reckon they would open on the bank holiday monday (which would be great but surprising or wait the 6th?)

bustercherry

Seve OB wrote: »

I’d hardly call the Big Easy a millennial

Wasn't referring to him but the so called young people sacrificing themselves for the greater good.

bustercherry

Scott Tenorman wrote: »

Good one! :rolleyes:
Do you not believe golf is safe? If you don't I trust you won't be playing when it reopens?

Really have we not moved past this?

Golf itself is relatively low risk. It's a accumulated risk of contacts through all the other activities and movement, not just through playing golf but ALL NON ESSENTIAL JOURNEYS AND ACTIVITIES.

Hence why Golf cannot be made an exception otherwise there will be a 100 other exceptions which defeats the point of restricting movement to essential journeys and activities only. It's irrelevant that something essential like going to the supermarket is higher risk as it is essential.

I for one what to see things opened but I'm fcuked if I can do another lockdown like the last or ever again. So for the sake of a few weeks I'll take the hit; but all this golf should be opened stuff because golf is safe is just tiresome at this point. We know that is not the issue.

Golfhead65

https://twitter.com/john_mcguirk/status/1368979209746518022?s=19
Came across this, thought it might interest a few people

Seve OB

bustercherry wrote: »

Really have we not moved past this?

Golf itself is relatively low risk. It's a accumulated risk of contacts through all the other activities and movement, not just through playing golf but ALL NON ESSENTIAL JOURNEYS AND ACTIVITIES.

Hence why Golf cannot be made an exception otherwise there will be a 100 other exceptions which defeats the point of restricting movement to essential journeys and activities only. It's irrelevant that something essential like going to the supermarket is higher risk as it is essential.

I for one what to see things opened but I'm fcuked if I can do another lockdown like the last or ever again. So for the sake of a few weeks I'll take the hit; but all this golf should be opened stuff because golf is safe is just tiresome at this point. We know that is not the issue.

I think you are the one who is missing the point. We all get that it’s not the golf, it’s the movement of people.

have you been out at all since December? Because I can tell you it is getting busier and busier as the weeks go by (and I don’t mean since schools started opening). So movement is happening and quite a lot of it.

But the main thing is that this might be our first rodeo, but I’ve no doubt it won’t be our last. I fully expect us to see another global pandemic, who knows when, but it will happen. Are we not going to learn anything from this? Are we going to just go into hibernation again when it does come? Do you think people will accept that?

Other countries are no better than us but yet they have all seemed to have adopted some sort of common sense approach to living with COVID. Life must go on, we cannot lie down and curl up on a ball anymore.

Kingswood Rover

Life must go on, we cannot lie down and curl up on a ball anymore.
ah here loads of people getting up everyday living their lives with positivity optimism as best they can. we are nearly there

The Big Easy

Anyway I'm having my clubs regripped during the hiatus.

Going for jumbo grips, apparently I have big hands and I always thought it was just that I had a small...... :pac:

Painting the living room next week and will hopefully have the garden back to life before the great return! As a previous poster said clear the decks now!

antgal23

Sadly, I actually have no hope or expectations about when we will return to play

Could be April, May or June

Wouldn't be surprised if Lockdown Part 4 was in August.

fred funk }{

antgal23 wrote: »

Sadly, I actually have no hope or expectations about when we will return to play

Could be April, May or June

Wouldn't be surprised if Lockdown Part 4 was in August.

You're an optimistic one.

bustercherry

Seve OB wrote: »

I think you are the one who is missing the point. We all get that it’s not the golf, it’s the movement of people.

have you been out at all since December? Because I can tell you it is getting busier and busier as the weeks go by (and I don’t mean since schools started opening). So movement is happening and quite a lot of it.

But the main thing is that this might be our first rodeo, but I’ve no doubt it won’t be our last. I fully expect us to see another global pandemic, who knows when, but it will happen. Are we not going to learn anything from this? Are we going to just go into hibernation again when it does come? Do you think people will accept that?

Other countries are no better than us but yet they have all seemed to have adopted some sort of common sense approach to living with COVID. Life must go on, we cannot lie down and curl up on a ball anymore.

Yes I have been out since December:rolleyes: Do you ever take a day of from this forum, you getting just as bad a Greebo.

So what's you point? Golf should open up because less and less people are obeying the level 5 restrictions? Or is there more people due to milder conditions but they are still compliant? The last I checked people are still allowed out of their houses and there was no curfews etc..

Other countries have better capacity in the health service. We closed non essential stuff to protect it and who is to say the next pandemic is not something worse than covid. So how much extra capacity do we need in the health service or how much extra public money is required to prepare for the next pandemic?

Other countries approches were largely irrelevant, at one point had we not the biggest infection rate in the world per 1million/100k people? Considering we are developed country, with a supposed educated population, not as densely populated and with controls in place; wtf went wrong? I'm sure genius such as yourself can tell us though?

Life must go on, we cannot lie down and curl up on a ball anymore? Wtf does that even mean.

slave1

Okay, take the tone down please, frustrating time for all

Rikand

Played a great 18 holes this morning. Shot 76. Pured one down the first and it really set the tone for the whole day. 2 birdies and should have had more but happy enough with 10 pars and 6 bogeys. It was one of the better golf dreams I've had of late. God I miss golf

youcancallmeal

Rikand wrote: »

Played a great 18 holes this morning. Shot 76. Pured one down the first and it really set the tone for the whole day. 2 birdies and should have had more but happy enough with 10 pars and 6 bogeys. It was one of the better golf dreams I've had of late. God I miss golf

For me it's strange I don't miss golf as much as I did in the 1st lockdown. I remember when we got back at golf last May I played a load of rounds in the space of 3 weeks. I'm just not missing it as much this time and not too fussed about when it's back. I've found other stuff to occupy me like cycling and building a gaming PC

ForeRight

youcancallmeal wrote: »

For me it's strange I don't miss golf as much as I did in the 1st lockdown. I remember when we got back at golf last May I played a load of rounds in the space of 3 weeks. I'm just not missing it as much this time and not too fussed about when it's back. I've found other stuff to occupy me like cycling and building a gaming PC

I’m the same. I miss golf but could I live without it for a long period, yes I could. I love golf more than anything(bar the kids maybe) but I’m yet to get too down about not playing.

Ahead of golf on things I miss more during these lockdowns are still going on holiday, the kids playing their sports, restaurants or even just a night out for a bite to eat and the cinema with the boss lady.

thecomedian

youcancallmeal wrote: »

For me it's strange I don't miss golf as much as I did in the 1st lockdown. I remember when we got back at golf last May I played a load of rounds in the space of 3 weeks. I'm just not missing it as much this time and not too fussed about when it's back. I've found other stuff to occupy me like cycling and building a gaming PC

I did something similar with the PC building, how is the hunt for a graphics card going?

The Big Easy

Thankfully I got to see when Harry met Meghan last night to see what true suffering looks like.

God bless them and here's us with only a few civil liberties suspended, good to have it put into perspective :pac:

ClutchIt

Cases really seem to be trending down, very confident of Apr 5th golfing

flanzer

gypsy79 wrote: »

I am quietly confident that golf will be open before April 5th

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

I don't know about you guys but I have never wanted to slice my driver 100 yards out of bounds as much as I do now:pac:

I say start of April is best we can hope for

ClutchIt wrote: »

Cases really seem to be trending down, very confident of Apr 5th golfing

Yes, it's great to see, but as always in this pandemic, things can happen quite fast, for better or worse, but I'm quietly confident too. As I said previously here, my wife works on a hospital frontline, and nurses are being redeployed back from Covid wards, into their original roles. There's not much talk of contingency planning either. Both are very good signs and indicators of the weeks ahead

flanzer

flanzer wrote: »

Yes, it's great to see, but as always in this pandemic, things can happen quite fast, for better or worse, but I'm quietly confident too. As I said previously here, my wife works on a hospital frontline, and nurses are being redeployed back from Covid wards, into their original roles. There's not much talk of contingency planning either. Both are very good signs and indicators of the weeks ahead

Here's hoping that is the case, I have heard from someone working in a hospital as well that the vaccine is having a positive benefit with the healthcare workers which is good to see for them.

3 potential banana skins on the horizon though are Mother's Day, St Patrick's Day and Easter. Inevitable that these will lead to more people meeting up than have been in recent weeks.

rickis tache

ClutchIt wrote: »

Cases really seem to be trending down, very confident of Apr 5th golfing

But I said it first.......

youcancallmeal

thecomedian wrote: »

I did something similar with the PC building, how is the hunt for a graphics card going?

I settled on a gtx 1660 super which I ordered from cclonline before Christmas, didn't need anything super powerful for the gaming I'm doing. It's actually mostly catch up on a games I missed out on in the last 10 years when I was too busy playing golf. Red Dead Redemption 2 is incredible

benji79

ClutchIt wrote: »

Cases really seem to be trending down, very confident of Apr 5th golfing

Looking good hopefully. I’ve said it before, I think the only thing could mess it up might be if opening schools causes numbers to head upwards again. Seems there’s already some problems there but hopefully just isolated cases

BENDYBINN

ClutchIt wrote: »

Cases really seem to be trending down, very confident of Apr 5th golfing

Mmmm..think an announcement will be made first week of April but the govt may buy themselves a couple of more weeks.........probably 20th...

The_Kew_Tour

flanzer wrote: »

Yes, it's great to see, but as always in this pandemic, things can happen quite fast, for better or worse, but I'm quietly confident too. As I said previously here, my wife works on a hospital frontline, and nurses are being redeployed back from Covid wards, into their original roles. There's not much talk of contingency planning either. Both are very good signs and indicators of the weeks ahead

Good to hear. I can’t wait for golf to come back, but at same time I’m happy to wait if it means saving peoples lives. I have Cousins who work in frontline and from personal experience these people are incredible and honestly I be happy to wait if it means it helps Health workers and ordinary people alike.

If it’s later than next month so be it

It’s just the selfish part me wants just hit few balls.