• SmellyBelly [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    As a Scotsman this is an attack on my native voice. This is part of my culture.

    But seriously, public courses are the shit, get hammered and whacking balls around a windy links is great. It's is a working class past time where I'm from.

    Stupid manicured greens that need non-stop watering and clubs full of fucking tossers can get fucked.

    • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      OK, thanks for responding. I've heard that traditional links on marginal land are fine, but I always kinda wondered if that was just propaganda. I've never golfed, but I can definitely see the appeal of whacking a ball with a stick while taking a nice walk on the seashore. In my area it's all manicured greens, unfortunately. At the public courses, can you rent clubs like you rent shoes at a bowling alley?

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I'm in the states and my city has a municipal course that costs I think $30 for a tee time and you can rent clubs for a reasonable rate. It's kinda manicured, but I think they try and use as many local grasses as possible for everything that's not the green.

        Every city should have one municipal course available to anyone.

        • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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          4 years ago

          Clubs don't even cost much. Got myself a 7, a putter, and one of those chipper ones, all for a total of 30 quid.

  • MaxOS [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Ah yes, the "international community"

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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    4 years ago

    when i was in college I made friends with this wealthy failson but he grew up in a place where most of the other kids were even wealthier. He was telling me this story about how he'd go golfing with this one bourgie kid that would only want to go to this uber richey golf course that had automatic teeing pins or something and when my friend said something about going some where else he was like "you want me to reach down and set up my own ball? what am I poor?!"

  • AstroCure [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    You see, my dear unmarxist fellow, abolishing golf does nothing to affect the material conditions which gave rise to the golf.

  • cosecantphi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    My dad plays an ipad golf game for several hours a day because we are too poor to play real golf. It's great, this should be the future of all golf.

    • mwsduelle [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Those games are way more fun than real golf. It's just a physics puzzle at that point and costs almost nothing. Real golf takes 4 hours, costs a shitload, and the course is filled with drunk chuds.

  • ultraviolet [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Mini golf and wii sports golf are the only acceptable forms of golf