To loathe golf and golfers?

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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.

yanbu

I have suffered eaten in three golf clubs, all within the last four years.

Without doubt they were the three worst culinary (that's pushing it actually) experiences of my life. I still have a dry boak at the memory. They also all seemed to have a double role as a geriatric day care centre - none of my fellow diners would have capable of swinging a club never mind playing a round. Btw neither am I!

And even worse than that, the places all thought they were the height of sophistication.

On that basis alone, even without the sexism and crimes against fashion, YANBU.

My DH agrees and he actually likes the odd round. He says it is different (in a good way) here in Scotland though and he's English. Still crap food though.

would have been capable, rather

Butterflyeffect - I used to, we lived near there for 5 years.

so just to be clear challengingcitrushalibu sexism = bad, ageism = ok