It is NOT a sport...

Originally posted by shockwaves
He is an athlete, I never said otherwise.

I was refering to anyone that thinks golf isn\'t a sport, not just you.  I play golf on my free time over the summer and it\'s just funny when people say it isn\'t a sport.

Any of you walk an 18 hole course while swinging a way at a little white ball trying to knock it in a hole not too much larger anywhere from 150-600 yards away, and then tell me thats not physically demanding. Most(not all) Extreme Sports also is physically demanding and has rules too, so it pretty much qualifies too, everything else can go blow its self if they want to consider it a sport.

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I\'d love to see you bunch of pussies walk 18 holes 4 days in a row in the heat of competition.  And that doesn\'t count the practice and pro am days.

Damn straight golf is a sport.

I\'ve been thinking.. billiards is a sport.

It uses a ball and benefits from increased physical strength. It also requires much skill, and is competitive. It also contains forms of offense and defense.

Golf, the only sport that has a slave in it (the caddy)

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be a caddy for tiger woods, then tell me you wouldn\'t WANT to be that slave..

I\'ll accept that the term "sport" is arguable but considering golfers athletes is not going to happen. Just because one or two of the players is in really good shape does not mean that all of the players are. If I\'m a competitive Gameboy player who can bench 300lbs that doesn\'t mean pro Gameboy players are athletes.

Originally posted by videoholic
I\'d love to see you bunch of pussies walk 18 holes 4 days in a row in the heat of competition.  And that doesn\'t count the practice and pro am days.

Damn straight golf is a sport.

So we are pussies if we don\'t see the significance of walking, standing, and swinging a stick at an inanimate object? Would you go to a baseball game if they replaced the pitcher with a Tee, got rid of the defense, and made the batters walk the bases?

I\'m not saying that golf and extreme sports and the like aren\'t physically demanding.  I just think they are athletic competitions, and not sports.  I differentiate between the two.  The competitors are still athletes, and I take nothing away from them, but the games themselves aren\'t sports.  They are part of the broader term \'athletics\'.

To me a sport is anything in which you compete against another team, and is widely recognized as a sport. I know it\'s a vague definition.

Oh, and Cheerleading is so not a sport.

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^ but your in a team, and they compete against other teams...

I think anything that involves physical activity to the point where you\'re sweating can be called a sport.  Videogames don\'t count because the activity has to be REAL.

This may change in the future though.. imagine VR gaming where you\'d have to run around and shoot.  This would get those lazy computer gamers a chance to get in shape (myself included).

Golf is a sport just like football (both kinds). It involves competing against others for money/prices/fame. There are pro golfers. Et cetera, et cetera.

Originally posted by Black Samurai
I\'ll accept that the term "sport" is arguable but considering golfers athletes is not going to happen. Just because one or two of the players is in really good shape does not mean that all of the players are. If I\'m a competitive Gameboy player who can bench 300lbs that doesn\'t mean pro Gameboy players are athletes.
 

Thats a bad analogy.  Benching 300 pounds doesn\'t further your ability to play Gameboy while when driving a ball I definently would like that extra strength.

Also, I normally compete with my cousin when I golf and it gets heated.  Just as much as any football game I\'ve played in.  To get an edge I lift and practice.  Wow, this all sounds like sport activity to me.

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Originally posted by Black Samurai
 Would you go to a baseball game if they replaced the pitcher with a Tee, got rid of the defense, and made the batters walk the bases?

Are you insinuating there is no defense in golf?  WTF do you think Wind, Trees, Water, Rough, etc. are???  Do you think god just happen to put a stream about 260 yards across the fairway on the par 5?  No..  It makes you think about how you want to play the hole.

And as far as adding up the amount a baseball walks/runs and the amount a golfer in the average day walks, I will almost guarantee you the golfer puts on more miles.

And if you are comparing the excitement level of the two sports, well there is a draw.

Originally posted by §ôµÏG®ïñD
^ but your in a team, and they compete against other teams...

However not at the same time!

Haha.... I dunno I don\'t exactly have rules with a firm definition, I just judge whether or not if it is a sport in my book. If it\'s a cheerleading competition, perhaps, however if its just shaking your boobs at an audience during halfttime, thats hardly a sport.