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PGA going downhill?

He flexes masculinity and then mentions squash. :laughing

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OldMadBrit said:
LOL 7 whole pages on Golf in a bike forum. :wow
As a kid, in the UK, I wrote it off as something old-farts did, when they couldn't play rugby, soccer or squash anymore. Those of us who could - did, them that couldn't - golfed :rofl

Looks like my daughter's entire generation came to the same conclusion. It was a boomer thing. :afm199 Its going the same way as the cruising industry and will be gone in a generation.
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Utter nonsense. Golf is mostly useless as a sport, as you say, but it is in no way slowing down as an important way to do business.
 
Eldritch said:
Utter nonsense. Golf is mostly useless as a sport, as you say, but it is in no way slowing down as an important way to do business.
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I must agree.

A friend once said "If you can't die doing it, then it isn't really sport". And then amended to include; "a lightening strike on the golf course doesn't count".
 
For serious? Have you heard of gold balls? Those things kill people.
 
"There are only two sports, motorsports and bullfighting. All the rest are games."

Ernest Hemingway
 
I'm no golf fan, not in the least but I applaud this golfer and his performance at a recent PGA event.

Fans had flocked to the 15th green at the BMW Championship in the hopes of witnessing four-time major winner Rory McIlroy find the hole, yet first witnessed the bizarre sight of the Northern Irishman doggedly trying to keep a ball out of it.

McIlroy and playing partner Scott Stallings had been approaching the end of their third round when a remote-controlled ball -- appearing to be controlled by a spectator at the side of the green -- rolled towards the flag.

Having circled the hole numerous times, the ball looked set to finally drop into the cup when it was swatted away by an outstretched McIlroy, who turned to face the pilot before blocking another run at the hole from the remote-guided ball.

There would be no third attempt as McIlroy picked up the ball before hurling it into the water guarding the green, much to the delight of the onlooking crowd.
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/22/golf/rory-mcilroy-remote-controlled-ball-fan-spt-intl/index.html

Hope it was expensive. :laughing
 
Awesome security...dude is standing right on the damn green and it took literally forever for the cop to walk out and haul his ass off.
 
Or the asshole, douchecanoe "bros" that show up drunk to events and proceed to induce frat boy bullshit into an otherwise respectable game. Oh wait...that's the "mashed potatoes" and "get in the hole" (even though the player is teeing off from a fucking par five) assholes anyway. It wasn't even funny in 2004. Shut the fuck up already.
 
A friend had a house on MPCC, one of the courses used during the AT&T Pebble Beach... on celeb day we'd set up a bar that was quite popular with the non-pro's like Bill Murray, Justin Timberlake, Gretzky, Carson Daly, Josh Duhamel, Andy Garcia, some country music stars I didn't know, and Michael Bloomberg.

Condeleeza Rice and Aaron Rogers wanted nothing to do with us.... :laughing

(Murray, Timberlake, Slater, Fox News host Brett Baeir, and Gretzky autographed the sign we put up...)

Always fun, mostly respectful. :thumbup
 

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Fun stuff!
I'd love to live just one day in your world, John. :laughing
 
Kornholio said:
Or the asshole, douchecanoe "bros" that show up drunk to events and proceed to induce frat boy bullshit into an otherwise respectable game. Oh wait...that's the "mashed potatoes" and "get in the hole" (even though the player is teeing off from a fucking par five) assholes anyway. It wasn't even funny in 2004. Shut the fuck up already.
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They're just trying to make the game more entertaining! Can't really hold it against them since golf is so mind-numbingly dull :twofinger
 
Kornholio said:
Or the asshole, douchecanoe "bros" that show up drunk to events and proceed to induce frat boy bullshit into an otherwise respectable game. Oh wait...that's the "mashed potatoes" and "get in the hole" (even though the player is teeing off from a fucking par five) assholes anyway. It wasn't even funny in 2004. Shut the fuck up already.
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Couldn't have said it better myself.

I will admit I shouted something after a tee shot once. At Pebble ProAm, Kurt Russell teed off, and while others are cute with a water shot saying "Don't go Overboard", or some might say "Snaaake!", I threw out one for the old nerds with "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes". Yeah, it got the reception I expected. Only funny for me... and maybe Kurt. LOL

Here's the movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065566/
 
Annnnnnd, in an ironic twist to the developments, the first general tournament where we see PGA and LIV golfers competing against one another, it's been shortened to 54 holes. That is some crazy coincidence that had to be made up. It's not unheard of for a PGA tournament to be reduced, but it is rare.

Rory's jokes didn't age well.
 
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