don't you know the difference between football and golf?
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Golf (gowf in Scots) is a game where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. It is defined in the Rules of Golf as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."\n\nGolf originated in Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. The oldest course in the world is The Old Links at Musselburgh. Golf, in essentially the form we know it today, has been played on Scotland's Musselburgh Links since 1672, and earlier versions of the game have been played in the British Isles and the low-countries of Northern Europe for several centuries before that. Although often viewed as an elite pastime, golf is an increasingly popular sport that can be played for one's entire life.\n\nAmerican football, known in the United States and Canada [1] simply as football, is a competitive team sport. The object of the game is to advance the football towards the opposing team's end zone and score points. The ball can be advanced by carrying the ball, or by throwing or handing it from one teammate to the other. Points can be scored in a variety of ways, including carrying the ball over the goal line, throwing the ball to another player past the goal line or kicking it through the goal posts on the opposing side. The winner is the team with the most points when the time expires and the last play ends.\n\nOutside of the United States and Canada, the sport is usually referred to as American football (or sometimes as gridiron or gridiron football) to differentiate it from other football games, especially association football (soccer) and rugby football. American football evolved as a separate sport from rugby football in the late 19th century. Arena football is a variant of American football. Canadian football is a close relative to the sport with a few key differences; the word "football" in Canada can mean American football or Canadian football depending on context.\n\nAssociation football, soccer, or simply football is a team sport played between two teams consisting of eleven players each. It is a ball game played on a rectangular grass field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by maneuvering the ball into the opposing goal. Other than the goalkeepers, players may not use their hands or arms to propel the ball in general play. The winner of the match is the team that has scored most goals at the end of the match. The sport is known by many names throughout the English-speaking world, although football is the most common. Other names, such as association football and soccer, are often used to distinguish the game from other codes of football, since the word football may be used to refer to several quite different games.\n\nThe origins of football are thought to be over 2000 years old. Indeed, in 2004, football's governing body Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) officially acknowledged that China was the birthplace of football, when people played the sport of cuju around 200 BC. Association football in paticular dervived out of games played at public schools in England in the Nineteenth Century.
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This just proves that americans like you are retards who don't have the brain capacity to understand the greatest sport in the world, football(or soccer, as you and your f a g friends call it). Let me guess, you are an american football fan, a sport any dumb fat a s s can play. But, in real football, not everyone can play, it is only for the athletic, and you need to have brains to play it, unlike american football. Did you smoke yourself retarded, Motherwell and Hearts are Scottish football teams not curling teams, you queer bastard.
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I didn't read the other two answers ahead of me, but I can tell you why I love golf. \n\nObviously the point of golf is to get the ball in the hole in the fewest number of strokes possible. A two year old could figure that out. But that's kind of like saying the point of painting is to cover the canvas in as few strokes as possible. It just doesn't cut to the heart of the matter, the statement misses the point. \n\nTo me golf is an art form, I've played the game at a high level, as a former apprentice member of the PGA of America, but I know that on any given day there are thousands and thousands of golfers in the world who can beat me easily, even on my best day. So automatically the point of the game, to get the ball in the hole in the fewest strokes possible, is unattainable to me. \n\nHowever, when it comes to hitting the shots that I want to hit, when I want to hit them, making putts, getting up and down from greenside bunkers, recovering from bad holes or shots....I can still compete with myself, and against the course. This is the true challenge of golf to me, simply competing against the course and trying to be the best I can be. \n\nNow you mentioned drinking and driving around in a cart. To me that aspect of the game is garbage, total garbage and it's exactly what's wrong with the game. It's why a round of golf takes 5 or 6 hours to play 18 holes on a weekend. Weekend hackers think that it's their duty to get hammered and play golf....why? I have no idea! Would you play $60.00 bucks to do something and then get smashed to the point that you no longer can enjoy yourself or compete at what you set out to do??? It's moronic. \n\nI consume alcohol, buy I've never mixed drinking and glof, at least not until the 19th hole. And I'll walk a good majority of the time, it keeps me concentrating on hitting good shots and also enjoying the outdoors and getting some exercise while I'm at it. \n\nThis may be hard for some to believe, but my dad and I used to play 36 holes in under 2 hours on our local muni.....we'd go out after the last leagues, at about 6 p.m., and play until dark, we'd skip around the other players on the course, and it would be a rare night that we didn't play 36. No drinking, no messing around, just playing good golf and having fun.....that's the heart of the game, enjoying yourself and competing against the course. \n\nIf you're just going out there to drink, ride around in a cart, and slap some shots around.....do us all a favor and go play mini-golf.
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People can believe that golf isn't a sport all they want.  But at the end of the day their broke-ass will be window shopping for products endorsed by Tiger Woods.\n\nPeople think Golf isn't a sport because you don't have to run.\n\nBut you don't have to run in baseball either.  Look at Barry Bonds.  He just stands in a box, swings and hits a homerun.\nHe chooses to run around the bases, but he doesn't Have to.\nThen he just stands in the outfield and lets the ball drop right by him and he watches the other outfielders pick it up.\n\nSo if these people believe golf is not a sport, then they believe baseball is not a sport.\nAnd if you believe baseball is not a sport, you're not a real American.
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I don't think you can really compare the two besides the fact that you have to be very athletic to play either professionally.  Football is much more physical and requires different skills.
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The best advice I can give to anyoen trying to play the game is try your hardest to not get frustrated over the little things and be patient.  Golf is a game that is played on a fraction of millimeters.  One millimeter the wrong way and your ball will be yards away from where you wanted to hit it.
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Golf has become the game of choice for business interested people today.  What other event could you do where you can talk openly with another person while waiting for the group ahead of you to clear the green?  Just because it is so widely played by so many people it has become common, not cliche', so enjoy your game and I hope you pick up the tab for anyone playing with you, how about a game next week?  Will you spot me 5 strokes?
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What does this have to do with Golf?
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Because its involve lots of money. I was just walking in the sport section of a department store yesterday and came to realise that a box of golf balls (12) of any kinds is more expensive than a football (soccer). In golf, you can loose a box in a round of golf (i.e. hitting into the waters, jungles, off the mountains and all sorts of hazards and lost it). And that is only for one player. Think about it, a soccer ball is played again and again by two teams of a total of 22 players.\n\nGolf's is also called a gentleman game because nobody fight over the ball, as each one has his own, unlike soccer and definitely not very violent like American football, where loads of people hitting each other for one ball!!!!\n\nPlsme. I can think of other kind of more expensive sports though; like horse back polo, where each player must have five expensive horses (may cost each 100,000 USD), and sailing yarcht (how about 10 million USD), Ballons, speed boats, sports cars (formular 1)..
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Hello David\n\nGolf is a game of honesty and integrity, it is the only sport that one calls a penalty on themselves even when playing alone. Golf teaches ettequette, manors and respect for others and for the game its self.\nIt is one of the few games you can play poorly and still enjoy it and its a game for all ages, even some blind folks play golf.\n\nIn short, golf is good.\n\nLeon
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Actually, I am not a golf fan, but I am impressed with your knowledge of golf, surprisingly, not many people know about good 'ol Fuzzy these days.  My grandfather used to take me golfing with him when I was a kid, he watches golf, and when I used to play PGA Golf on my Sega gaming system, my golfer of choice was you-know-who.
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easier and pays more is Golf\nless expensive is tennis\n\nI wish you the best, both are good sport and will be fun
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Golf is not an acronym. See:
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I love 'em both.\n\nIronically, contrary to first impressions, from a spectator's point of view football is a *thinker's* sport, and baseball is the *faster* sport.  \n\nHere's why:\n\nFootball is about planning, designing new innovations to the game, anticipating the other team's moves.  While baseball is also a bit of a chessgame, (when to bring in the infield, when to send up the pinch hitter, when to bring in the left-handed reliever), you don't see coaches trying to invent a new play, or entirely new tactics, strategy, or even an entirely new philosophy to offense or defense.\n\nBaseball has the reputation of being both a slow sport, and the thinker's sport ... but a good spectator understands that baseball is one of the fastest games there is!  It's *all* about preparation, anticipation, tension, and then sudden release of a flurry of action ... more can happen in a 3 to 5- second play in baseball than happens in almost any sport.  Anyone who says that baseball is boring, just has no understanding of the game.\n\n(Note, the above is just from a spectator's point of view ... as a player, and I've played both ... there is a completely different viewpoint.)
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They do not play golf like Tiger does
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Basketball has much more action. How can you even compare the two. It is probably more appropriate to compare baseball with golf. Although at least with golf the grass changes.
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Golf is a game in search of perfection. However, there are very few sports in which perfection can be attained (i.e. 300 in bowling).\n\nAdditionally, golf courses have a number that is considered normal, or "par." The idea is to get the least amount of strokes under par... the lowest score wins. \n\nThink about this... there are a multitude of variables on a golf course as well as with any player at any given moment. For example, a golf course may be wet the next morning after an evening rain. You might have done really well on the dry course the day before, however, since the weather changed, the conditions are different and scores will be altered. \n\nAlso, strength and fatigue have a lot to do with a golfer's capability to score well. As with any sport, training is necessary. However, strength may be lost at one point in time because of something simple as a bad night's sleep or in Tiger Woods' case, a father who is ailing from cancer. \n\nAnyways, putting a golf ball in a 3 1/2" hole from 150-600 yards away in one shot is very difficult. There are limitations that humans have... if one person can hit the ball 450 yards, he's not going to be very accurate. However, another person may be able to hit the ball only 300 yards but may be able to get around the green like a veteran pro.\n\nHope this explanation helps!