The state of Golf down worldwide

[Benny]

Not just horseracing is down. and who ever heard of Footgolf and Topgolf ?

http://www.businessinsider.com/golf-...merica-2014-12

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Benny

Not just horseracing is down. and who ever heard of Footgolf and Topgolf ?

http://www.businessinsider.com/golf-...merica-2014-12

Todays generation are basically veal. My gaming platform was a bat and ball

[GPK]

That article lost me when it said a rules of golf book is some 200 pages long and too big tote around in a golf bag. A 3x5 paperback weighing less than 1lb is too big to put it your golf bag? 20+ years of playing tournament level golf and a rule book was never my problem. A years worth of caddying on the LPGA tour hauling a 40+lb golf bag 5-6 a days a week, and I assure you the rule book was consistently the lightest item in the bag.

[hi_im_god]

Plus the are 25 of people like me who have never owned or read the rule book for everyone like you. I'm afraid it won't mention anything about the mulligans that are a regular part of my game.

Where do pro football players carry their copies of the NFL rule book?

[GPK]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

Plus the are 25 of people like me who have never owned or read the rule book for everyone like you. I'm afraid it won't mention anything about the mulligans that are a regular part of my game.

Where do pro football players carry their copies of the NFL rule book?

And there is certainly nothing wrong with the type of golfer you describe. I think that's a core group that doesn't need to be ignored. Not everyone wants to always "play by the rules." Frankly, who cares? That money spends the same. That group of golfer never plays tournaments, save the occasional charity captains choice tourney.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by GPK

And there is certainly nothing wrong with the type of golfer you describe. I think that's a core group that doesn't need to be ignored. Not everyone wants to always "play by the rules." Frankly, who cares? That money spends the same. That group of golfer never plays tournaments, save the occasional charity captains choice tourney.

I play regularly with a 20 plus handicapper (being polite) who this summer hit the pin on a par 3 drive, leaving it 20 feet plus and wanted credit for a hole-in-one. I pointed out that's not what the rules say.

We were playing for a $1 a stroke so I said, "What the hell I'll give it to you." When we finished I had beat him by 6 strokes but he had a hole in one on a scorecard and gladly bought drinks for everyone in the clubhouse with a big fat tip for the bartender. $200

Sometimes rules are meant to be broken.

Oops that maybe considered red-boarding. "Oh what the hell"