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Other than that, sure, they're exactly alike.
They both fly, both wear red, and both have a beard.
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I have golfed and I have run and I have a hard time thinking of two sports that are more dissimilar. imo, running is nothing like golf.
My dad liked to tell this joke:
Q: "What did Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy have in common?"
A: "With the exception of Kennedy, they both had beards."
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This is 15 too many responses on a thread about golf.
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Any sport where a fat crankhead like John Daly is winning championships most definitely does not require athleticism. At the very top levels, it might give you an edge, but it ain't a requirement. On that front, when's the last time you saw a 240 lb beer-swilling chain smoker in the lead pack of a major marathon?
Any sport where a fat crankhead like John Daly is winning championships most definitely does not require athleticism. At the very top levels, it might give you an edge, but it ain't a requirement.
On that front, when's the last time you saw a 240 lb beer-swilling chain smoker in the lead pack of a major marathon?
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You may be right
This just made me lol.
Don't believe everything you think.
When is the last time Daly won anything? The game has changed. Even if you go to the muni, it's not the out of shape guys that are out there breaking 80. It's people that have a natural athetic inclination. But yes, there are very few body types that work for running, I'll give you that.
You need to come to the courses down here. Of course, at this time of year it's all you people from up there, but still...
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Orly? People at the "muni" down the street from me here have trouble seeing the golf course over their guts. Watching me run by the course may be the most exercise they've had in years...
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While I get what the OP is saying, I also have another opinion of golf. I can't say whether golf is only a game of skills as opposed to a real athletic activity, because I've never played. But it seems to me that although someone athletic might make a better golfer, I don't see how golf can make a better athlete (as in very physically fit) out of someone...
PRs: Boston Marathon, 3:27, April 15th 2013
Cornwall Half-Marathon, 1:35, April 27th 2013
18 marathons, 18 BQs since 2010
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it seems to me that although someone athletic might make a better golfer, I don't see how golf can make a better athlete (as in very physically fit) out of someone...
Definitely true. If you're a pro it helps to be fit, but for the average weekend golfer who drives a cart straight to his ball, fitness plays basically no role. I love to play tennis, and even though fitness does play a role, tennis itself won't make you fit, unless you're playing singles at a very high intensity for hours a day, in which case the risk of injury is very high. So I get in shape to play tennis, not the other way around.
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Golf is better. You don't risk spilling your beer or have it foam up on you when you open it with golf.
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Orly?
So fat white guys who can't see the ball over their gut but golf 3 times/week aren't golfers?
Hurm...interesting.
One of the consultants we use at my company is a very solid local-area golfer. Used to play competitively in college, still shoots 2-3 rounds/week Spring, Summer, and Fall, has a really low handicap...and is so obese he's breathing heavy by after climbing one flight of stairs in our building. I'm pretty sure that, sans golf cart, he wouldn't make it through a single round.
I always thought he was a big ol' fat golfer. But I guess now I know he's not a golfer at all. Awesome...
Why do you keep saying ORLY?
Pointing out a talented "clydesdale" golfer seems no different than pointing out a talented clydesdale runner, but I'm happy to agree to disagree.
Both are boring as fuck to watch, and only slightly more interesting to do.