To loathe golf and golfers?

[GetOrfMoiLand]

It is AWFUL. A few reasons:

• Tiger Woods. I mean, look at him.

• The clothes they wear.

• Every week I have to sit at work and listen to golfers talk about their wondeful round they went on last weekend, and the brilliant links they are going to the following weekend. And they talk about their handicap. And their fucking 5 irons. They BRAY very loudly about it like it is some wonderful thing to do.

• I have a woman colleague who is a golfer. She pays the same membership fees as the men, however she is not allowed to play golf on Saturday mornings as 'that is when the men who have worked all week get to play'. Women must play in the week. This makes me so angry I want to spit.

• I work with blokes, and have a lot of meetings with people, and at the start of every meeting they start talking about golf. I am asked (cursorily) at the start of the meeting 'do you play golf'. I say 'no' you boring cliched bastard. I then sit there (hatchet faced) whilst they ramble on.

• I work in engineering procurement, so with a team have to select suppliers/partners with whom we are gpoing to spend sometimes millions of pounds. Because I am HONEST I will not accept as much as a pen from a supplier as a 'gift'. My colleagues this morning have accepted a bloody golf day at the buggering Belfry whislt we are in the middle of a tender, which to me is not on. If I wasn't leaving the company I would kick up shit because this is completely unethical.

• anyway, back to golf. I can't think of any more reasons, but it is a bag of shit anyway.

MorrisZapp - I'm sorry, they play golf and I am not friends with them so they must be cunts

my DH is also tanned in summer, altho its just a t-shirt tan. We get our summer holidays in October and he tans in 1 day .

His pals are also decent guys, no prats, but he knows to avoid all the idiots wanting to be pals just because of his job.

Erm.....

I think I'm going to have to say YABU, because DH plays golf and is enormously sexy, intelligent and doesn't have an overbite or braying laugh.

But he's not your regular golfing type really- he was brought up in SA where golf is much more accessible and every 2nd person plays.

BUT- it is a terribly dull sport, I think.In fact I'd hesitate to even call it a sport, as that word conjures up images of fitness and some kind of vigour. So maybe YANB completelyU...

MorrisZapp - sorry, can't agree, but if you want to see fit, then DH, when he used to climb regularly, in his climbing gear, looked the business.

Even the thought of DH in [shudder] golfing slacks makes me suck my teeth and shake my head slightly, the way my mother does when her former boss who ran off with her wages is mentioned.

lol at small clanger in mentioned

Ok, loathe is a strong word. I posted this thread this morning in a stewing rage about my colleagues accepting the golf weekend.

But - it is women hating. I was slack jawed when my mate says she pays nearly a £1200 a year to belong to a club and she can't play on a Saturday morning. I said 'you seriously have to pay the same as the men and you are banned from playing on a Saturday because the men need to have a game after a week at work?'. She said it is not an official ban, it just would be deeply frowned upon if a woman was to turn up for a game.

I very nearly learned golf and joined the club just so I could roll up on a saturday and play and dare them to 'frown' at me. But then I realised I am not that much of an arse.

Apparently, there are ladies' days arranged 'as and when'.

I feel like gate crashing the place and running across the green in my high heels.

I meant lol at small clanger's mum's wages

Clanger, what don't you agree with?

My DP being fit?

Really enjoying golf?

Having loads of golf pals who are normal intelligent guys?

I'm not giving an opinion, these are the facts!

I'm sure your DP is very fit too, doesn't mean I think mountaineers are cunts. Room for loads of fit men isn't there. Does it really matter if they get their jollies from mountains or golf courses? It's all outdoor sport and I'm proud of my DP for having a passion, as I'm sure you are of yours.

Christ, I've read enough threads about DPs who sit glued to the x box all day and start boozing at 3pm. I know what I'd rather have.

lololol yanbu
my dh is obsessed with golf

god it's dull

Ooer, never meant it as a slur on anyone's DP or fitness thereof. I was being flippant.
Golf just REALLY WINDS ME UP.

DP went on a golfing holiday to Ireland once (he tagged along with a load of mates, is not a good golfer at all).

Apparently he was like Happy Gilmore.

SOME people even claim it's a SPORT ffs.

I find golf dull too, which is why when our LO arrives DP is in sole charge of outdoor pursuits and sports training.

I can't wait! Think of all the lovely free time for me.

I think it's great that my kid will get out, get fresh air, learn a sport and all the rules/ responsibilities etc that it entails.

And that I don't have to do any of it. DP is already champing at the bit.

By GetOrfMoiLand Fri 30-Apr-10 12:30:11

Oh I have heard ski that golf is viewed completely differently in Scotland and doesn't have the hideous class/money connotaions that the English have imbued it with.

Obviously never been to St Andrews then.

I just don;t like pastel colours

Also the insistence of people (DH extended family for example) on holding family events and even weddings in golf clubs. Why would you do this? Personally feel any sense of fun or joy seeps out of me the minute I step over the patterned carpet threshold.

i am sooooo with you on this one getorf!

dullards being dull doing a dull thing. and they choose to deface areas of great beauty with their telly tubby banality

Indeed, Saltire. It's a festival of bad clothes up here. Upside would have been letting our house for the Open. If we'd got round to it!

Lots of golf courses in the bit of Melbourne where I am, must be all the sand; it's one big bunker.
I'm torn on the eco question as it's clear that lots of birds live on the courses, parrots and so on, which would disappear if the courses went, as the rule here is to tear down all trees and build huge houses which are impossibly expensive to heat or cool - now there's ungreen.

They dress very badly, naturally, but I know nothing about anti-women rules here, as I don't want to ask any of the golfers at work, in case they think I'm interested and start talking to me about it.

Mr.E constantly gets invited to golf as part of the male/corporate bonding, but he turns it down as it's a cunt's game, and hates the thought of spending good time with load of drivelling blokes. In the work world, it also informally excludes women, as most are to sensible to waste their time in this way, and he likes working with women.

My DH is also v sexy and lovely, and def not a cunt. He is, in fact aces!

However, he woke me up one morning to say he was off to the golf club whilst wearing a v neck over a polo shirt, I thought 'Oh God! He's dressing like his Dad...'

Without golfers and their courses I wouldn't have been able to go and pick Fly Agaric magic mushrooms in my long past yoof.

So for giving me and my mates some uber interesting nights I love golf and golfers

You lot remind me of the people who say 'I can't stand gay people, they're so camp and in your face, always flapping their hands about' etc when of course most gay people aren't like this at all but are the normal person sitting next to you.

Honestly. My DP and his friends are totally normal non-cunts. I don't know what else to say really. I know that some men/cunts do insist on wearing hideous knitwear and going to golf clubs to escape the wife, but golf isn't a political party, it's a sport played by people from all sorts of backgrounds.

They play for love of the game, not to try to get up the corporate ladder. In my DPs life, golf brings people together, it doesn't create exclusion and heirarchy. He does it with his mates, not his bosses.

How mad to think that as he indulges his absolute favourite hobby there are people who would write him off as a tosser simply for his preferred method of whacking a ball into a hole.

It's sport, not ideology.

MorrisZapp - It's not a sport though.

Golf has saved my sanity for the past couple of years. Both DS are members locally (£100 per year, so pretty reasonable) and during the school holidays when DH and I are at work they golfed every day.

They walked or got a taxi to the golf course at about 11am, played a few holes, had lunch in the clubhouse, played a few more holes and then DH or I picked them up at 5 on the way home from work.

It may not be a sport, but it's great exercise, fresh air, and the adults at the club - male and female, all ages - are brilliant with the juniors.

Lots of their friends play golf, and they sign each other on to their different courses. It's generally an egalitarian sport/hobby/whatever here (apart from St Andrews!) with none of the cuntary that earlier posters have mentioned.

I like golf I enjoy playing. I dont wear pastel colours, as far as I know I am not a cunt. Where I play women can play whenever they want, theres no membership you just show up pay your money and play.

I used to think it was the dullest game in the world until I gave it a try. Actually hitting the ball is almost impossible at first but when you hit a good shot it really satisfying.

I'm a woman by the way and I'm only 24