Your most unpopular Golf opinions?

[BarrySanders]

If you took a poll, over 50 percent of people would be against your opinion. Mine:

1. There is nothing wrong with courses discriminating on who plays on their courses

2. Fat and non muscular golfers that win are bad for golf

3. There is nothing to be proud of when you shoot well with game improvement or most graphite irons.

4. Every single golf advertisement is worthless. If they affect you purchases, you are naive

5. 99.99 percent of the time you don't average X score, you don't average Y driving distance, and you didn't Pick your head up

[TIM929]

Please take lessons, get fit, and feel free to untuck your shirt, but please don’t say try not to hit it so hard.

 

I know I know, you cringe.

[Gautama]

I think you should make a rule that we can't debate what people write here or this thread is going to implode. It's like asking everyone to troll! ?. Anyway here's a few of my more curmudgeonly opinions;

 

1) People aggressively trying to play too fast harm the game as much or more than slow pokes.

 

2) Carts suck.

 

3) There's very little practical difference in performance between iron designs, buy what you want to look at in the bag.

 

4) Michele Wie is a goddess.

 

5) They really do need to find a way to rein in distance on tour, and I have zero problem with equipment bifurcation as in baseball.

 

6) Golf architecture is horribly under appreciated, and should be really highlighted on every tour stop so the public becomes more aware of that great aspect of the game.

 

7) And carts suck.

 

 

 

[James the Hogan Fan]

Fittings are overrated

Putter fittings are doubly so

 

There, I said it.

[goheels11]

The use of the term “golfing” makes you less of a human

I’d rather walk, thank you. Stop offering the passenger side of the cart. If I wanted a cart, I would be in one.

Love to compete, but sometimes I’d just like to drink and shoot 80...ish

The thrill of a new club or set is often times diminished by actually hitting them.

 

 

[Ty_Webb]

Blades might make you play worse right now, but in the long run, they'll make you play better.

I think I agree with more than half the comments above...

[Chomper]

Every course has a slow play problem. Every. Single. Course.

Music ruins a round of golf.

Painted golf tees are a dumb idea. Either use natural or plastic (so they don't break as often).

[jjmurry]

I would rather pay increased greens fees (~30%+) with the expectation it would remove slow play and cull the number of golfers on the course at any given time.

[dmecca2]

The PGA tour does not have a slow play problem. (public golf does though)

 

[Strömsborg]

Handicap tournaments are the golf equivalent of live-action role playing game. You might as well put on a fake beard, pretend to be a dwarf and re-enact the Lord of the Rings.

[MelloYello]

Watching elite players compete on TV might actually be a distraction for folks looking to enjoy their own games.

 

Competent players are spending too much time worrying about equipment these days (myself included).

 

Golf is an incredible privilege and thus we should do more to support our local clubs (public & private).

 

Fixing a few extra pitch marks and placing sand in a few extra divots is a good way to pass the time and should be routine behavior for an avid golfer everywhere he/she goes.

 

Attitude & behavior has a lot to do with how good you are.

 

Rhythm & timing are fundamentals.

[HatsForBats]

- The hole should be increased to a size where nearly everyone feels safe leaving the pin in at all times. This could also help with damage to the hole when players retrieve their ball with the pin in.

- I would say fairway divot relief but you did say where 50% of people would be againt the opinion so I am of the opinion it would not qualify.

- What tee box a player can play should have nothing to do with age or gender

- Using descriptions such as 'mens' , 'womens' or 'senior' tees should be abolished

[MelloYello]

> @HatsForBats said:

> - The hole should be increased to a size where nearly everyone feels safe leaving the pin in at all times. This could also help with damage to the hole when players retrieve their ball with the pin in.

> - I would say fairway divot relief but you did say where 50% of people would be againt the opinion so I am of the opinion it would not qualify.

> - What tee box a player can play should have nothing to do with age or gender

> - Using descriptions such as 'mens' , 'womens' or 'senior' tees should be abolished

 

I totally agree with the last couple.

 

I would only point out that virtually all the courses I've gone to lately use color as a designation for their tees so the players can see which tees correspond to which course/slope ratings on the scorecard.

 

I can't think of the last time I went to a course and actually saw the words "senior tees" or "ladies tees" printed on the scorecard. I think courses have been very progressive about getting rid of those terms. So technically, the don't really exist in most places (where I've been).

 

I think it's more an issue with there being a stigma and that fact those phrases are part of the common vernacular of players.

 

But in spirit, I totally agree. I will sometimes play the red (forward) tees as I walk 9 holes after work just to focus in on my iron game. Sometimes it's better to do that than to go to the range and beat balls.

[jjj912]

Putting is the least important thing to shooting low score. Wedge play is the second least important thing. The most important thing is driving. Iron play is the second most important thing.

[jholz]

1. Golf carts should be eradicated. Everyone has to walk and carry.

2. Any golf course designed around a housing development sucks.

3. Equipment is a minor, and largely insignificant, aspect of the game.

[Golfingfanatic]

1. Golf carts are the worst thing that happened to golf.

2. Golf course architecture is awesome and should be talked about more.

 

[caniac6]

Boy, you guys sure do let a lot bother you. In the last two years, I have survived prostate cancer and a heart attack. I play, and walk almost every day, and I'm thrilled to still be in the upright position.

[Maximilian]

I'm not sure we need to "grow the game" more. It's difficult to get a tee time around here as it is.

[2012BFT]

Watching the am's at the Pebble Beach tourney ruins it for me. Great iconic course, but I don't care the least bit about watching Bill Murray or Toby Keith etc attempt to golf. Leave it to the pros...

 

Also, the latest trend of Golf companies partnering with celebrities/other sports athletes... who cares about Stephen Curry golfing? Or Tony Romo etc...

 

 

[HighBoomingDraws]

rolling the ball back is a stupid idea...

[VNutz]

People obsess too much about pace of play. They wait for days to play golf then want to be done as fast as possible. Pace of play is a people and (lack of) patience problem.

[duffer987]

* Wearing an OEM's golf hat makes you look like a berk

* If you wear shorts to golf, you should have to wear knee-high socks

* The woman golfer in a mixed pair is almost always the nicer person

* People who say Spyglass is better than Pebble don't really believe it and just want to seem clever

[Strömsborg]

Most of you people have reasonable opinions. Wasn't the point of the thread to have unpopular opinions? Things you are ashamed to say out loud?

The OP started out well, most people I know dislike discrimination and love it when the fat guy wins, but then he goes on to say that golf equipment ads lies and golfers tend to overestimate their abilities. So? Did anyone ever think otherwise?

[iutodd]

The whole macho “no laying up” bro culture of golf sucks and is bad for growing the game.

 

The only reason everyone should have a handicap is so courses could enforce playing from the proper tees - playing from the wrong tees is absolutely a cause for slow play.

 

Just once I’d like to see a dude working the beverage cart and a girl driving the range ball cart or a mower.

[NJpatbee]

I play much faster using a golf cart.

[SEP1006]

Just a few for me:

1. 5-somes should never be allowed at anytime

2. Walkers shouldn't be allowed to tee off before noon

3. People who pay more that $350 for 18 holes anywhere are crazy

 

[Celebros]

> @2012BFT said:

> Also, the latest trend of Golf companies partnering with celebrities/other sports athletes... who cares about Stephen Curry golfing? Or Tony Romo etc...

>

>

 

I mean, supporting a couple of scratch or better golfers who have more name recognition amongst the general populace than anyone but Tiger seems like a terrible way to support the game of golf...

[2putttom]

well ya know who your friends are after reading this thread

[Ferguson]

Richard Rawlings does not impact the game.

 

 

[DavePelz4]

Peter Jacobsen is an AH.

 

Rich Lerner is why the mute button was invented.

 

WTF is up with Feherty's hair and sideburns?

 

Jimmy Roberts need to stick to...um what does he do?

 

I don't find Paige Spiranac attractive in the least.

 

If the Solheim Cup is supposed to be the epitome of Women's Team Golf, why don't they have the best players in the world playing?

 

Lanny Watkins used to be great until he started uttering the phrase Billy Ray...Billy Ray. Reminds me of Tattoo on Fantasy Island.

 

I'd like to attend a meeting of Nick Faldo's ex wives.

 

John Daly is a waste of talent and I hope he doesn't mess his kid up.

 

Renee Russo was terrible in Tin Cup but awesome in the Thomas Crown Affair.