Golfers are top notch athletes....
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How many major league baseball were high on coke? Who was the pitcher who threw a no hitter on LSD?
Golfers get great trophy wives without herpes.
I heard a guy from Western Carolina struck out a Marshall catcher back in the 90's 4 times in one game and the pitcher was on a three day binge and had the flu. Said the catcher for the Herd got caught looking three of those four times. Damn, baseball is a crazy game.
I heard that particular catcher didn’t play for Marshall in the 90s. He played in the 2000s. He isn’t an old man like you.
I also heard that Marshall never played Western Carolina during that catcher’s time.
I also heard that particular catcher walked more in his career than he struck out, so striking out twice in one game was highly improbable. Doing it four times was impossible.
It’s hard to call a golfer a top notch athlete as long as they lose their concentration if a camera goes off in their backswing. Name another sport where complete silence is necessary for the competitor to compete?
Are you serious? Have you never heard the stands when these games are being played?
It’s amazing how a man can’t hit a 100 mph fastball in front of 60k fans with camera flashes going off but a golfer can’t hit a stationary object 6 feet if a bird shits mid flight near the course.
This is simply the conditioning of one's mind, meaning, when you're playing a sport like football or basketball, your mind is used to hearing loud noises while you're participating, and your concentration is typically unflattered while taking a shot, or catching a pass. With golf, your mind is used to silence, and any unexpected noise will vastly alter your concentration, which impacts your swing.
Aren't you the one that brags about playing golf all the time? I golf on occassion, but noises don't bother me, because I typically play with rednecks, so my mind is conditioned to taking a swing with guys popping open beers, taking a piss into a bush, hollering at someone on the adjoining hole, etc.
I do play, all the time which is why I can say that for anyone to call them top notch athletes is absurd. I play drunk sometimes and with guys that do the same as your boys you described. Golfers are no more athletic than NASCAR drivers.
I've never claimed they were athletic, but some golfers are likely pretty athletic in other sports.
Exibit A: Page Spiranac looks pretty athletic, but that's just my opinion.
That, or a great future porn star.
I'm hearing impaired. Noise doesn't hurt my swing. That being said, you really can't hurt my swing. At least not worse than it already is.
This isn;t the old days. Too much money in it now.
A cross-over athlete with a cross-over dribble, Gary Woodland earned a basketball scholarship to
Washburn University and played a year of college hoops before transferring schools to focus on golf. As fine a baller as DJ may be, we'd still bet on Woodland in a one-on-one.
A cross-over athlete with a cross-over dribble, Gary Woodland earned a basketball scholarship to
Washburn University and played a year of college hoops before transferring schools to focus on golf. As fine a baller as DJ may be, we'd still bet on Woodland in a one-on-one.
Let me try to dumb this down for yet another Republican:
The argument isn't that people who are good at golf can't be athletic. With hundreds of professional golfers, you're destined to find a few good athletes mixed in that group. Likewise, just because you are good at chess doesn't exempt you from being athletic.
The argument is that people don't have to be athletic to be good at golf. Likewise, you don't have to be athletic to be good at chess.
And are you really trying to support your argument by showing 6'4 guys dunking?
How many 6'4 guys can actually dunk?
What I am saying is golfers at the pro level are far more athletic than they used to be.
My guess is Yag thought he would take his athletic prowess to the golf course and proceeded to shoot 180.
That wouldn't make much sense according to my argument. You don't have to be athletic to be good at golf.
Chess players are far more athletic than they used to be. With the advance in technology, health education, and fitness industry over the last fifty years, people spend far more time working out and getting stronger than they used to.
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I touched the bottom of the net once. Well...on my third try.
I think what herdman is saying is that you likely played golf once and wasn’t very good at it, so you took this whole “golfers aren’t athletes” stance to feel better about yourself. Not judging...just clarifying.
*weren't
Herdman should know by now that I am good at everything . . . especially modesty.
