Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 06, 2023

Cavemen swung clubs. Golf gives you a chance to be out in nature and swing a club.

Well if they were at home, they could be watching golf instead, and that would be even worse.

Golf is boring, until you know how to do it!

I finally found, after years, the way to make the ball go where you wanted it to go!

Golf, then became a lot more fun!

Me time is needed. Except it can get expensive what with greens fees and the cost of all the balls one loses……. Instead, one could be WATCHING golf on TV and claim he was spending time at home with his family!

’duff said

Sad.

Chasing a little white ball all over someoneʻs lawn. Surely there is something better.

I would rather ignore my family while I am at home with them

If you’re good enough, try LIV golf, the latest form of welfare for the rich.

Aw .. what a cynical attitude. Cruel; cruel, but fair.

Which is why the term ‘golf widow’ was invented.

Golf was invented in Scotland, where the landscape is composed entirely of natural hazards. In a nation where the diet consists of sheep innards and oats there wasn’t a lot to do except fight the English and sports. Not everyone is strong enough to toss a caber. Golf happens.

It’s called golf because the other four-letter words are taken.

I got a PS5 and have been playing PGA Tour on it. The greens drive me crazy. The grid and indicators are not very informative.

I think it’s popular because old guys can still play it.

From The Legend of Bagger Vance:Rannulph Junuh:You really love this game, don’t you?

Hardy Greaves:It’s the greatest game there is.

Rannulph Junuh:You really think so?

Hardy Greaves: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.

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by [John Masefield, “Sea Fever,” 1902. Which sounds like much more fun than golf.

But I’ll do my sailing by re-reading the Horatio Hornblower series 1937-1962 [C.S. Forester] Lets me enjoy both the naval history of the late 1700’s and my family at the same time.

Iopaka: no there isn’t anything better, and stop calling me shirley…

golf, going outside looking foolish!

Golf: invented by sadists, played by masochists.

I know, I know, I’ve posted this a couple times before. But I still think it is the truth.

And Mom and the kids are glad to be rid of him, even if it’s only for a while.

It’s outdoors. It’s exercise, if you do it right. It’s pretty much football for couch potatoes. If you got the time for golf, you got the good life. Embrace the suc.

Gold is a way to ruin a pleasant walk.

If I want to walk over that much grass, I’ll mow my lawn.

Robin Williams said it best: https://youtu.be/LSXMS8ABAAU

Gaelic profanity.

It was probably invented by a group of wives that wanted some time to their selves.

This reminds me of The Golf Game by Jeb and Cousin Easy (Find it on YouTube), but it veers off in a different tangent…

Early 20th Century aphorism variously attributed – “a good walk, spoiled”

Hey, for some, the family that golfs together, stays together.

…or governing the country…

How did he change trousers from panel 1 to 3?

Nineteenth hole makes it all worthwhile.

At that age, the wife do not give respect and the grown up children’s don’t listen. What is wrong in getting some excercise and sunshine, aka vit D, for the body and soul, including the company of friends. I think this game rocks and was invented for the later phase of life.

It’s about advertising: you aren’t spending the whole afternoon drinking with your friends — you’re playing golf.

I got a motorcycle instead…I can still get out and see some nice scenery, go out with my biker buddies, talk on our headsets, and go out for ice cream.

“A good walk spoiled.”

I think Mark Twain once said that golf is a good walk spoiled

It was a great break from spending day-after-day in the country watching over a mob of sheep.

My father tried it at the age of 41 when he became the VP of an airline, thought it was required to do business. Dragged me along at the age of 19, not sure why. We both came to the same conclusion, it was an incredible waste of time. End of story.

One of the best feelings ever is hitting a ball 300 metres or so onto a green and seeing it plop in a tiny little hole at the end. Priceless.Walking down a crisp fairway at 7:00am when the air is crystal clear and the ducks and other birds have just woken up, similarly priceless.

It’s a goof ball.

I was at a paint-drying and grass-growing expo the other day when a golf match broke out, and everyone got bored and went home.

There is. Trap shooting.

The golf course closest to me has been taken over as a second home by Canadian Geese