Thoughts for The Masters?

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McIlroy is obviously out there and Woods is looking dangerous, but I fancy Ogilvy's chances at this.

Anyone else?

Doesn't look like there are many golfing Dads on Dadsnet............

One thought - as a bloke - why do my fellow xy-chromosomers in general spend so much time talking mindless crap and giving amateur punditry on things they know next-to-nothing about (whether Torres was worth £x... etc. etc.), especially bearing in mind it has no bearing on their lives from one day to the next. As some who plays a fair amount of competitive sport, I find it all breathtakingly tedious over a post-match drink and frankly hate the whole archair-spectator-sport-punditry-nonsense.

Sorry, that was not really on-topic, but I needed to get it off my chest, having been asked for the x-thousandth time "Did you watch the game last night?" (cue bemused expression about what sport, let alone what game). Sports section is always the first to get used to polish shoes on, closely followed by Travel section (wow - a week for a family of 4 in a Swedish resort for only £2,500/week)...

Sorry last post a bit rude - totally appreciate sports punditry is lifeblood to some fellow men. Just not my bag.

If I'm honest UrbanDad I do find punditry of sports I have no interest utterly mindblowingly boring but to be totally hypocritical I would happily talk about 2 sports endlessly - one of which I haven't played for nigh on 15 years and the other that I do 2-3 times a week.

Knowing how passionate I can get about either of these two sports, i can fully appreciate other people's passion, but being interested in so many things in life myself, I can't get my head round people who can only talk about the same one or two things for 99% of their lives. Very very odd.

I guess like everything, finding people with similar interests is better than finding those you have nothing in common with.

Given that football isn't a big thing for me, i totally appreciate your "Did you watch the game last night?" comment.

Do you follow any professional/top level sports in which you participate?

I do peloton, duathlon, triathlon, marathon and a bit of golf and am in the very amateurish work 5-a-side team. Talking about our own performance post-match or post-event is fine, but talking about spectating someone else playing professional sport in a different sphere altogether, well it's so remote it kind of means nothing to me. I don't even bother watching the Tour de France - professional sport is a world away from what I do (and the Jan Ullrich doping thing shows how far away it all is). Why should I take any interest?

You're right, you shouldn't.

But you should definitely let other people know how superior you are for not taking any interest.

Well if you don't watch professional sport or take that much interest in it, then clearly you're not going to get any enjoyment out of talking about it. As someone who does love watching professional sport, I can understand how easy it is to get totally absorbed (for a brief period of time at least!).

If you're a runner, you must have enjoyed watching the London marathon (there's me assuming!) - there were some great performances there (and some awful ones too!) Re the marathon stuff, it inspires me hugely to see the top performers running a whole course at the pace I could possibly manage just one mile - well probably closer to half a mile. Just makes me think how far can I push myself.