Do you consider golf a sport?

[hownos]

more of a skill

[doubledenim]

Or, seems like a question from someone who doesn't play.


Just like the form of a jumpshot or a quaterback's mechanics, a golf swing is a repeated motion. Whatever the logic for golf not being a sport, must apply to an offensive lineman. I mean, they just stand up and push. Is that a sport?

[ScarletLion]

Of course it's a sport. These days you have to be pretty fit to compete at the top. See the guns on Bryson Dechambeau that enables him to drive the ball 400 yards.

Also, People don't often amass a $300,000,000 fortune due to acquiring a 'skill'.

[Yoda]

Yeah it's definitely a sport. Just one that involves less overt levels of visible exhaustion than most.

[Corax]

If video games are a sport, yes.

If the ribbon competition is an Olympic event, yes.

Is it on the same level a quad-lutz? You be the judge.

[Citizen Rules]

Sport.

[honeykid]

I think the only way you could say it wasn't a sport would be if you said it's a game. That's not my opinion, BTW, just the only way I can see an arguement that doesn't fall down straight away. It'd have to be put in the same category as Darts, Snooker, Pool, etc which also have/had the sport/game/pastime debate over the years.

As for my opinion, I'm with the 'good walk spoilt' brigade.

[Yoda]

Obviously what this always comes down to is just that some people, when they hear 'sport,' think of sweating and/or obvious physical fatigue, so anything that doesn't involve (or, more accurately, does not immediately and obviously seem to involve, to an outside observer) that must not be a sport.

Try golfing 18 holes, though. You'll be tired, even if you're not hitting the ball as hard or tensing up as much.

[ScarletLion]

I can guarantee you Rory McIlroy was sweating when he made that play off putt last night. He was mentally and physically totally drained.

[hownos]

Or, seems like a question from someone who doesn't play.


Just like the form of a jumpshot or a quaterback's mechanics, a golf swing is a repeated motion. Whatever the logic for golf not being a sport, must apply to an offensive lineman. I mean, they just stand up and push. Is that a sport?


That's true I never played. I was a hockey guy

[hownos]

Of course it's a sport. These days you have to be pretty fit to compete at the top. See the guns on Bryson Dechambeau that enables him to drive the ball 400 yards.

Also, People don't often amass a $300,000,000 fortune due to acquiring a 'skill'.

The players weren't always that fit, I remember Craid Stadler and John Daley.

[doubledenim]

Can someone name the largest, worldwide sporting event (not the World Cup) that occurs every 4 years? If that is the pinnacle of sport, you will find golf has a seat at the table. Along with unfettered access to the debauchery of the Olympic Village.

[Dead2009]

Yeah its a sport, just like tennis is

[Captain Steel]

How about those new face-slapping competitions?
Sport, exhibition, exploitation, entertainment or just pointless violence?

[doubledenim]

All of the above

[honeykid]

Can someone name the largest, worldwide sporting event (not the World Cup) that occurs every 4 years? If that is the pinnacle of sport, you will find golf has a seat at the table. Along with unfettered access to the debauchery of the Olympic Village.
TBF, it has a place currently (sports can be added and removed and it wasn't there for years) so it's not a good arguement for it. Also it's mostly there as a money maker for the IOC, just like Tennis and other sports where 'the best' turn up and aren't amatuer.

Personally, I think only sports for which an Olympic gold is the most desired and pinnacle of the sport should be there but, as I said, this is all money now and that doesn't work for them.