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In a Hole, Golf Courses Experiment With 15-inch Holes
Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "According to the National Golf Foundation, golf has lost five million players in the last decade with 20 percent of the existing 25 million golfers apt to quit in the next few years. Now Bill Pennington writes that golf courses across the country are experimenting with 15 inch golf holes the size of pizzas to stop people from quitting the game. "We've got to stop scaring people away from golf by telling them that there is only one way to play the game and it includes these specific guidelines," says Ted Bishop, president of the PGA of America. "We've got to offer more forms of golf for people to try. We have to do something to get them into the fold, and then maybe they'll have this idea it's supposed to be fun." A 15-inch-hole event was held at the Reynolds Plantation resort last week featuring top professional golfers Sergio García and Justin Rose, the defending United States Open champion. "A 15-inch hole could help junior golfers, beginning golfers and older golfers score better, play faster and like golf more," says García, who shot a six-under-par 30 for nine holes in the exhibition. Another alternative is foot golf, in which players kick a soccer ball from the tee to an oversize hole, counting their kicks. Still it is no surprise that not everyone agrees with the burgeoning alternative movement to make golf more user-friendly. "I don't want to rig the game and cheapen it," says Curtis Strange, a two-time United States Open champion and an analyst for ESPN. "I don't like any of that stuff. And it's not going to happen either. It's all talk.""
It's a lot like software. There's a large solution space but only a few valid solutions and a lot of traps. There's an enormous amount of rules, lots of tools that all look the same but aren't. The people dress poorly but are quite rich.
My Dad used to take me to play pitch-and-putt (nine short holes, played with a 9-iron and a putter). One day when I was 9, we were both having an awful round, and I said "Dad, this is a bloody frustrating game". He replied "Yup, that's why I gave it up in 1932". I got the point, and have never been back since.
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15 inch holes
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Brave Sir Robin ran away. ("No!") Bravely ran away away. ("I didn't!")
Because "dumbing down the game" have worked SO well for Blizzard and World of Warcraft..
I'm being sarcastic.
yeah, but its outside directly under the sun......
Cue the sweaty fatbodies claiming golf is a "sport" and golfers are somehow "athletes".
You had to walk between holes, big whoop. Walking only seems hard when you're fat and have to waddle side to side, shuffling around like a fucked up duck.
Ok, I'll say it if nobody else does:
There are already a certain kind of giant holes on the golf court. Though they're not in the ground, they're the ones playing.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Golf is dying because it's boring and pointless.
As an avid fisherman I hope to see the popularity of golf grow.
Yeah, pizza-hole golf is the equivalent to dumbing down school kids by eliminating cursive writing (common core).
Also, our precious bodily fluids. Don't forget the threat from dumbed-down golf and the Common Core to our precious bodily fluids.
15 mm ought to do it. Then we can get 100% participation in the "existing 25 million golfers apt to quit in the next few years".
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
With golf, you get to drink even when you lose!
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