Should Golf really be considered a sport?

Question

When you hit the ball you use a golf cart to get to the ball, So there's no actual exercise being done.

Answer 1

It's not a sport. It's a game...like shuffleboard or poker.

Answer 2

Actually, carts are not allowed in professional competition. Walk an 18 hole course and then tell me if you think it doesn't count as exercise. It's exhausting! Also, behind hitting a baseball, golf is the 2nd most difficult sport in the world. If Golf isn't a sport then nothing is.

Answer 3

NASCAR then wouldn't be a sport. All they do is sit in a car driving around in an oval. Wasting gas, oil, and parts for wrecked, total cars not to mention the repairs for all the cars after a race. Golf is just an outside game where people get together having a good time. It does take skill to hit the ball from 300 to 400 yards down the green and getting it in a hole. But I think in a game where you are trying to win and have either skills and/or luck it can be a sport. According how you look at it, I guess.

Answer 4

I actually don't like using a cart, and lots of people feel the same way, but I agree; there's no physical part to golf so I don't consider it a sport. I call it a game

It's akin to Monopoly in that sure you have to do some moving to hit your ball or move your piece a few spaces, but it's not physical in the way other sports like soccer or baseball even

Answer 5

I consider golf a sport! I have been a fast-pitch softball player for years and when I first started golfing weeks ago......muscles in my body were sore! I didn't even know the names of the muscles that were causing me distress because they were the small short ones. In most sports we use our large motor skills that require use of our larger muscles.......just because your heart rate isnt at its max doesnt mean that you arent working out. I used to make fun of golfers until I picked up a club and I realized how hard it really is!

Answer 6

Get out there on a driving range and shank several dozen golf balls, then let me know how much of a sweat you worked-up.

It's a sport. It's not high-impact, but it still requires skill. Are you at home sitting on your butt, or are you out moving around doing something? Yeah, it's a sport...

Answer 7

I play a course in the Calif. Foothills,,,,,,,,. La Contenta. Come on down,,ya all can try to walk it........ my guess is you can,, but you won't be able to play worth a darn,, carts are for the drinkers and individuals who have handicap placards on their cars.......... Is golf a sport...?? To quote one of our great leaders " Depends on your definition of ...is."

Answer 8

do you see the pros using carts, no

golf is a sport and there is no running or major exercise, yes your correct, but its still should be considered a sport

Answer 9

sport /spɔrt, spoʊrt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[spawrt, spohrt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
2. a particular form of this, esp. in the out of doors.
3. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
4. jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
5. mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
6. an object of derision; laughingstock.
7. something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
8. something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.

Answer 10

Real golfers walk. But even if you take a cart, it is a sport.

Answer 11

Yes. There is physical activity involved and the pros do walk!