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Cake day: February 11th, 2025

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  • I have such a hard time identifying with people’s hatred for golf and I’d really like to understand more. For context I played golf in highschool, so I got to use the course for free since I was a member of the team. For clubs I used either inherited clubs or ones I found in the dumpster. I’ve still got those clubs and I can still hit in the direction I want the ball to go.

    I live in a very rural mountainous region that gets plenty of rain and has some of the strictest environmental guidelines in the US. The closest golf course to me costs $17 to play all 9 holes.

    What I get is that there are some regions that could not support a golf course naturally and where space is at a premium and could probably be used better (like as another fucking parking lot or something, zoning laws are stupid sometimes). I also get that these courses can over fertilize and run off heavy metals into the watershed. Or waste precious water.

    What I also get is that golf is not a fun sport to learn. It is not fun until you start making good swings. But once you do it feels as good to me as snowboarding or mountain biking. You also usually golf with friends (drinking can be a big part too), and doing stuff with friends is fun.

    It seems to me that most hatred for golf comes because of capitalism and not because of golf. It’s associated with the capitalist class, buying new equipment is expensive (nothing like hockey though, serious WTF), and capitalists are irresponsible with land.