Why is Golf so big and widley covered by espn?

[FIGHT FAN]

John Daly. Discussion over.

 

[Tam-Tam]

Tony Gwynn.

 

[pulpduff]

john daly was, drunk and addicted to food and still making millions of dollars as one of the top pros in the game. in no other sport can you abuse yourself the way john daly did and still be on top of your game.

Have you seen James Toney in the last 8 years or so?

or John Kruck of the Phillies, or....

get real man. There are anomolies in EVERY sport.

 

[FIGHT FAN]

Have you seen James Toney in the last 8 years or so?

or John Kruck of the Phillies, or....

get real man. There are anomolies in EVERY sport.

exactly. golf has tiger woods, boxing has james toney etc... etc... theres plenty of john daly's in golf(maybe not quite as bad but theres plenty).

 

[cottagecheesefan]

exactly. golf has tiger woods, boxing has james toney etc... etc... theres plenty of john daly's in golf(maybe not quite as bad but theres plenty).

there are a lot of fat, yet athletic, people in football. Makes up more than half the team. hurr

 

[cottagecheesefan]

edit, and before someone tells me, lets see john daly take on a lineman, well lets see a lineman beat him in golf. Different sports take different skills, it is just what you invest your time in. If he has the nerves to concentrate with a shitload of money at stake, and millions watching.. i am sure he could learn other skills and train in some other way. He is just making more money without having to blow out his knees and be a cripple for half his life.


edit: once again people dont realize what makes a great athlete. It is more mental than physical, and golf is a pretty decent mental test... as is boxing, football, tennis, baseball, basketball. I never once bashed those, so dont say I did!

 

[pulpduff]

manning is more athletic than woods and consistantly too,he is bigger faster stronger and skill and ability are 2 different things and winning a super bowl takes more pysical ability than playing golf,does tiger woods go thru the pain and injurys like the rest of the sports world? ok here is my point tiger cant do anyting better than eli manning besides swing a golf club and eli dosent have an elite level athletic abilty cardio,strenth,speed. here is tigers best competiton wow what a pysical specimen

Dude.... I'm just going to say...Fedor, the "best" mma fighter on the planet. His build isn't exactly awe inspiring y'know what I mean?

 

[FIGHT FAN]

there are a lot of fat, yet athletic, people in football. Makes up more than half the team. hurr

being athletic, and being athletic for your size are two different things. butterbean was more athletic than alot of guys his weight, but i wouldnt put him on any top 10 lists.

 

[cottagecheesefan]

being athletic, and being athletic for your size are two different things. butterbean was more athletic than alot of guys his weight, but i wouldnt put him on any top 10 lists.

yea, cause he could be accurate, coordinated, stay calm, and execute good technique. Wait, isnt that what I have been arguing? And when did i say john daly deserved to be on a list? Did you read my other post?

 

[Tam-Tam]

Kelly Pavlik is a skinny, malnorished, white ethiopian.

 

[Maverick34]

white people with lots of money like golf....that's why

 

[FIGHT FAN]

yea, cause he could be accurate, coordinated, stay calm, and execute good technique. Wait, isnt that what I have been arguing? And when did i say john daly deserved to be on a list? Did you read my other post?

i could argue this...i really want to...but there is no point(as this will just keep on going back and forth). so ill just say this...JOHN DALY....and the guy with the bitch tits.

 

[pulpduff]

Kelly Pavlik is a skinny, malnorished, white ethiopian.

LOL--I keep wanting to tell his cornerman to give him a sammich for fuck sake, the boy is starvin'...

 

[cottagecheesefan]

i could argue this...i really want to...but there is no point(as this will just keep on going back and forth). so ill just say this...JOHN DALY....and the guy with the bitch tits.

you took the time to write a couple lines, please take the time to argue it. It cant take too long if you already know what you want to say, you just got to put it into words. Please elaborate

 

[cottagecheesefan]

white people with lots of money like golf....that's why

white people with lots of money like every sport that they can exploit and get a bunch of sponsors and get stupid people to buy what the sponsors tell them to.

 

[Tam-Tam]

LOL--I keep wanting to tell his cornerman to give him a sammich for fuck sake, the boy is starvin'...

No doubt. The poor kid trains for three months to get ready for a fight, the least they could do is give him some carbs, or protein. JEBUS!

 

[pulpduff]

white people with lots of money like every sport that they can exploit and get a bunch of sponsors and get stupid people to buy what the sponsors tell them to.

While that is true, I think Maverick touches on the true power of golf with his very concise post.

On the one level, the ultra rich in control of what goes on the air (in this case the ghost of Walt Disney---They own ESPN don't they?) would put on zit popping for dollars if there was money to be made.

I think Maverick alludes to the fact that the target audience for golf programming is comprised of moderately wealthy white folks (and now black middle classers as well---Titlest/Nike Thanks you Tiger) that are willing to put out a lot of money for crap to enhance their own pathetic golf prowess.

I grew up golfing (5 or 6 times a summer) on a municipal course (I didn't even see a powercart until I was well into my 20's) that had sand "greens" and cost $8 a round. I had a mixed set of clubs that were partly garage sale, partly my Grandmother's old clubs for a total investment of around $25.
It didn't effect my enjoyment at all, and didn't make me any worse of a golfer than my peer group that had actual sets of clubs and paid drastically more for them (or their parents did at any rate).

However, there are courses that I would never golf on simply because a weekend @ one of them would cost what some people pay for rent in a month, and really, I don't need to have my ego stroked by being overcharged for something.

So... what I'm trying to say is that although some courses are very elitist, the game itself is not so.

Now Hockey on the other hand... that's a rich kid's sport


Really, if you meet somebody that grew up playing Polo (not the water variety) you are dealing with one spoiled SOB.

 

[GlassJaw]

Lacross is the sport of the wealthy. And hooker stranglin' but that's another story.

 

[pulpduff]

Lacross is the sport of the wealthy. And hooker stranglin' but that's another story.

Hooker Stranglin' is Sooooo elitist these days. Those fuckers won't even let me join the amateur tour.
Doesn't stop me from practicing though.

 

[5acrossYOeye]

Tony Gwynn.

played the outfield...where he ran.