In a Hole, Golf Courses Experiment With 15-inch Holes 405
Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "According to the National Golf Foundation, golf has lost five million players in the last decade with 20 percent of the existing 25 million golfers apt to quit in the next few years. Now Bill Pennington writes that golf courses across the country are experimenting with 15 inch golf holes the size of pizzas to stop people from quitting the game. "We've got to stop scaring people away from golf by telling them that there is only one way to play the game and it includes these specific guidelines," says Ted Bishop, president of the PGA of America. "We've got to offer more forms of golf for people to try. We have to do something to get them into the fold, and then maybe they'll have this idea it's supposed to be fun." A 15-inch-hole event was held at the Reynolds Plantation resort last week featuring top professional golfers Sergio García and Justin Rose, the defending United States Open champion. "A 15-inch hole could help junior golfers, beginning golfers and older golfers score better, play faster and like golf more," says García, who shot a six-under-par 30 for nine holes in the exhibition. Another alternative is foot golf, in which players kick a soccer ball from the tee to an oversize hole, counting their kicks. Still it is no surprise that not everyone agrees with the burgeoning alternative movement to make golf more user-friendly. "I don't want to rig the game and cheapen it," says Curtis Strange, a two-time United States Open champion and an analyst for ESPN. "I don't like any of that stuff. And it's not going to happen either. It's all talk.""
Re:...news for nerds.. (Score:5, Funny)
Learning Golf While Young (Score:5, Funny)
Re:...news for nerds.. (Score:4, Funny)
15 inch holes
Is goatse.cx the connection? It's goatse.cx isn't it?
Because dumbing down the game... (Score:3, Funny)
Because "dumbing down the game" have worked SO well for Blizzard and World of Warcraft..
I'm being sarcastic.
Re:...news for nerds.. (Score:2, Funny)
yeah, but its outside directly under the sun......
Cue the sweaty fatbodies claiming golf is a "sport" and golfers are somehow "athletes".
You had to walk between holes, big whoop. Walking only seems hard when you're fat and have to waddle side to side, shuffling around like a fucked up duck.
Re:Learning Golf While Young (Score:5, Funny)
I have given much consideration to golf over the years. My experiences include; nearly having my windshield taken out driving down a city street and evolving my own golf game, played from my car, in which I wait till I see someone putting or driving and honk my car horn just in time to fuck up their shot.I went to a driving range once and put my back out of alignment on a bucket of balls. NO LOVE!
It has occurred to me that the sissy ass game of golf neednt waste so much real estate on a dying form. Merely create a hybrid sport to bring the masses in and make the greenskeeper earn his damn money. I propose ACTION GOLF: No clubs, instead, you are equipped with a potato gun and a can of hairspray. Helmets will be worn, FORE! will be shouted into a bullhorn, previous to any shot. Any discrepancies in score or disagreements will result in a round of fire based on the paintball sport. This is now a game for Vikings, not old men! Putters will be reminded that the hole already exists and creating your own through gunfire doesnt count.
PLAY GOLF!
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Re:Nothing to do with hole size (Score:5, Funny)
Ok, I'll say it if nobody else does:
There are already a certain kind of giant holes on the golf court. Though they're not in the ground, they're the ones playing.
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Re:...news for nerds.. (Score:4, Funny)
Golf is dying because it's boring and pointless.
As an avid fisherman I hope to see the popularity of golf grow.
Re:Not a fan, but... (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, pizza-hole golf is the equivalent to dumbing down school kids by eliminating cursive writing (common core).
Also, our precious bodily fluids. Don't forget the threat from dumbed-down golf and the Common Core to our precious bodily fluids.
LET'S REDUCE THE HOLE! (Score:4, Funny)
15 mm ought to do it. Then we can get 100% participation in the "existing 25 million golfers apt to quit in the next few years".
Re:...news for nerds.. (Score:4, Funny)
With golf, you get to drink even when you lose!