2006-10-21 05:28:46 · 20 answers · asked by jj26 5 in Sports ➔ Golf
Personally for me the difference between a sport and a hobby is breaking a sweat. Golf just puzzles me, a few bussiness men having a relaxing game playing a few holes i can totally understand but professional golf?
2006-10-21 05:34:53 · update #1
I couldn't help but notice some people trying to defend golf by saying 'they do a lot of walking'. Are you joking? So now walking is a sport. If anyones seen Happy Gilmore (awesome movie) i just goes to show when some 'sports' are taken a little too seriously.
2006-10-21 09:13:04 · update #2
And another guy saying 'could you win a million playing a hobby'. Financial benefits have absolutely no bearing on what defines a sport and a hobby. That gives capital corporate sponsorship the power to decide what should be deemed a sport. You can make a living out of it but still does that change what it is. Im still waiting to be convinced people, oh and saying they carry their bag around 18 holes. Whos that caddy guy then?
2006-10-21 09:18:37 · update #3
Golf is a hobby. There is no direct interaction between players, and you're not even competing at the same time (in contrast to track).
You even pick up your ball if it's in the way of someone else's!
2006-10-21 09:39:11 · answer #1 · answered by Chris W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how you play it.
You can play social golf and just spend a few hours chatting and knocking the ball around while driving a cart.
You can walk up and down hills for 6 miles, while carrying a 30 pound bag, swing a 1 pound club at 100 mph about 200 times including practice swings, do 54 toe touches while teeing, marking, and retrieving your ball from the hole, attempt to hit a ball straight but farther to a smaller target than in any other sport while maintaining your sense of feel for putting and chipping, in four hours.
2006-10-21 07:58:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you take golf seriously it is a sport. If you knew what the professional golfers have to go through to play well. For example Vijay Singh works out twice a day. It is also difficult on their legs. The golfers have to do a lot of walking to do, and when you golf as much as they do you will realize how much work is put in.
2006-10-21 05:50:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
they just made darts a sport so golf has to be one. one of the criteria for being classified a sport is that it must require
some measure of physical skill and golf certainly does that (a good golf swing is tremend. You can be a tubby golfer but you have to be fit to perform at the top level, that is maybe not true of a hobby.
2006-10-21 07:17:36 · answer #4 · answered by Colossal Squid 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
initially a sport, regardless of level as it is so highly competitive then as you get older a social network and therefore hobby.
Maybe the question should have been golf: game or sport?
2006-10-21 05:36:38 · answer #5 · answered by ira d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hobby for some, sport for the professionals
2006-10-21 05:29:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sport.
Just because there isn't much danger of getting paralyzing neck injuries or broken bones, doesn't mean that you can't break a sweat. I walk 18 holes and it's a good workout.
2006-10-21 09:00:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion
2006-10-21 05:36:44 · answer #8 · answered by enigma_variation 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sport-----do u think if u can win a mil in 1 tournament u would call it a hobby.i have 1 more diffacult 4 u horse racing ,deffinately sport to the horses ,,but what about the owners
2006-10-21 06:05:17 · answer #9 · answered by dhragtop 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Golf is a sport, you can play it professionally
2006-10-21 10:51:34 · answer #10 · answered by tarheelsjordan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋