Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 20, 2021

Sad, really. Now I don’t know which way I want to go.

Musta got caught cheating.

“Down there” they have to use rubber clubs and the holes are all filled in.

One of my favorite short stories examines the idea that Heaven (for me) is  Hell for you: You bring your own attitude to the afterlife and that  is the only difference.

There are worse things than watching golf. Watching bowling comes to mind.

Ugh, Golf. I find it boring watching or playing. Heaven for me would be being able to travel the stars and explore the universe in full.

golf is an incredibly hard sport to play, when mastered it is a wonder!

If you can’t play it doesn’t mean you denigrate the players who can!

Up there you have to play it for all eternity.

How much fun will golf be when every shot is perfect?

I’ve read where some people hate sport, mostly the pro sports seen on TV (or live). Some people continue to play sport for their own pleasure throughout their life. Many golf, though I wouldn’t quite characterize that as a sport but to paraphrase a famous quote, “golf is a good walk ruined” (this has been attributed to Twain, but Twain died in early 1900’s and this first inkling of this quote was in the 1940’s). Many have played sports, not only watched. Many enjoy playing tennis and then as they’ve gotten older with knees and ankles and hips not so flexible pickleball has become big.

Will I be able to break par when I get there, or will it take years of practice?

And in the Inner Circle of Hell, they have to watch Trump play golf …

Oh, good gawd! There’s golf in heaven, too????

Hardy Greaves: From the film The Legend of Bagger Vance:It’s the greatest game there is. Ask anybody. It’s fun. It’s hard and you stand out there on that green, green grass, and it’s just you and the ball and there ain’t nobody to beat up on but yourself; just like Mister Newnan keeps hittin’ himself with the golf club every time he gets angry. He’s broken his toe three times on account of it. It’s the only game I know that you can call a penalty on yourself, if you’re honest, which most people are. There just ain’t no other game like it.

I understand why people play golf. It holds no interest for me, but I can understand what other people see in it.

From what I have read, Golf on TV does not draw as large an audience as do other sports. However people who do watch buy the products advertised at a much higher rate than general audiences.

You can judge a sport based on if it is broadcasted over the radio. Football, baseball and even hockey have been broadcasted this way.

I am not aware of any radio station that broadcasts golf, bowling or chess.

I will never play any game where you get teed off before you start. I’ve also never been known as a club swinger, not enough iron in my diet. I just putter around. Guess that’s par for the course.

Stuck between 2 people at a bar talking about their golf game that afternoon. Now that is hell.

And for the VERY bad, watch golf at a Trump golf course.

Golf in heaven? How the heck can they stay there with all that cussing.

Golf was invented by sadists. Masochists play it.

If you want to be entertained by golf, listen sometime to Robin William’s description about how the Scots invented golf. Hilarious..

I’d say that golf on TV is good for not-watching – that is, to have on in the background while doing something else, and occasionally glancing up if something interesting happens. It is fun to play, once you get to the level you can actually hit the ball cleanly (after many years i’m just about there…) aside from the proverbial good walk (or ride) it’s as much mental as anything – putting aside swing thoughts, don’t think about the bunker to the right and the lake to the left, how and where to hit it to allow your next shot etc.

That’s really like basketball for me. I love playing the game, but hate watching it. Now soccer is different: playing is great, watching is good.

This would be a difficult choice for me. I get some of my best weekend naps while watching golf on television.

I like to think of heaven as being able to watch women’s beach volleyball all day.

Watching or playing golf, would be torture, to ANY sane person.

Golf, spelled backwards, is Flog. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Either way, the number of strokes is what matters. . . .

I’ll wait for them at the 19th hole.

“A good walk … spoiled.”

I used to enjoy the game when I was younger but “The Former Guy” has ruined it. I can’t even watch it any more.

Rewards in the afterlife? You decide.

Playing Golf is boring enough.

Watching it ….

I find some of those windmills really challenging…

“The other place” is here… starving children in war-torn countries, who would be leading otherwise normal lives if not for the war-lords waging war…

While I was in the Army some friends taught me to play golf. I was horrible. After I’d only played twice, a soldier came around work one day signing people up for a golf tournament sponsored by our General. I told him I didn’t play that well. He said, “Come on, what can it hurt. A day off work and out in the sunshine.” So I signed up. We played in teams. The leader of our team really knew how to play. The rest of the team didn’t. Fortunately our leader was a laid-back guy who decided to just have fun with it. It turned out to be a very pleasant afternoon. I even won the prize for the most putts. Still, either watching or playing golf would be my idea of hell.

I hate how it’s in the Olympics now.

i like the courses where the big-ass Gators stroll around

That and bowling!

It could be interesting to learn that either each place has golf or neither does.

The most interesting people are in hell, princes of the church and all.

Enjoy the best of both worlds. Don’t play & Don’t watch. No more torture on either event. See wasn’t that easy?

So, basically, no difference, is what you’re saying.

With moderate to severe ADHD, having to play golf would be as much hell for me as having to watch it. I went to a local golf course with my mom once as a teen in the dark ages before everyone had a personal entertainment system in their pocket. Never again. Never.

Ok, I just read it more carefully. That was great.

Watching golf on TV is similar to watching fish have sex.