Love/Hate Relationship With Golf

[woodzie264]

Inspired by @divot dave's avatar pic, what do you love MOST about golf and what do you hate about it (if anything)?

Love: it's a great platform/activity which provides the opportunity to hang out with buddies while competing, relaxing, and talking trash simultaneously...for hours

Hate: soooooooo humbling and frustrating when I swing really hard at a stationary inanimate object only to chunk it 10yds

[JonMA1]

Love: A nice day on an empty course. Good contact with any club. Hitting a green with a long iron. Watching a putt curve towards the hole at the right speed on a nasty green. Hitting a wedge shot over a hazard or tree and sticking the green. Punching under a tree branch or succeeding with even the slightest amount of intended curve around a tree.

Hate: That I can't just appreciate those things I love about the game without being so consumed by improvement and the inability to shoot low scores.

[iacas]

Love: Almost everything. Really.

Hate: Slow play.

[CarlSpackler]

Love: Golf. 

Hate: Golf. 

[Dufferpauly]

Love the bar cart 

Hate it when the bar cart gal is a fat chick

 

[boogielicious]

Love: Getting outside with friends and playing a game that is both frustrating and exhilarating at the same time. Challenging myself to get better. Being able to play it as I get older. Playing new courses and meeting new friends. 

Hate: I try not to hate anything about the game, but slow play can be annoying.

[woodzie264]

11 hours ago, iacas said:

Hate: Slow play.

Good call

[HJJ003]

Love: The strategy of the game. The feeling of hitting shots flush, and the feeling of grinding out a decent score even when you don’t have your best game.

Hate: How your game can just up and leave mid round. How you can break 90 one round and shoot 110 the next. 

[CarlSpackler]

To elaborate, I love hitting. Good shots and hate hitting bad shots. 

[woodzie264]

13 hours ago, CarlSpackler said:

Love: Golf. 

Hate: Golf. 

Hahahaha - profound!

[cooke119]

Love - finding and buying new clubs

Hate - paying for new clubs

[NJpatbee]

Love:  The challenge, the satisfaction of improving, the great environments where I play, and the comfort of playing with my grandson, a good friend, or solo. I also enjoy the history and tradition of the game.

Hate: Slow play but I have reached a point in my life where l can avoid these conditions or walk off and not be upset at it.

 

[Typhoon92]

Love:  Playing 

Hate: Golf outings

[Patch]

Love being out of doors doing something, I can still do. Being with old friends, and family. Watching other golfers' talents, or lack of for the game. Meeting new folks. Just too many reasons to list. It's a great game that offers more than most folks realize.

Hate? Actually "hate" being the strong word that it is, I don't hate anything about golf, and all that goes with it. I do tend to laugh at, or ignore the ignorance/arrogance of those types of folks, when I run into them while playing golf. 

 I've always been a believer that having any negative thoughts, about anything worth doing, detracted from a job well done. It's just too easy to turn negative thoughts, or issues into positive ones. 

[nevets88]

I love watching the ball fly through the air. 

I hate the time it consumes - playing, traveling, progressing. It's not like you put on running shoes, run 5K and done in a half hour, or pick up games of team sports, done in 2 hours. 

[shooter]

Just love.

I dislike slow play and dis-respectful golfers. 

[The Hook Meister]

I love being outdoors on a beautiful sunny day handing with my buddies.       

Hate the fact that a bad day can ruin all of it if I let it.

 

 

[MarvChamp]

I haven't been able to swing a club for 5 months and probably won't until June. This and the topic has reminded me how much I really do love the game of golf. I didn't appreciate how much until it was taken away. I tried to think of something I hate; I can't. I play rounds in my mind; I look for the day to play again! Best to all, -Marv