Any golfers on GOT? I want to get into playing it

[Jimishorts]

Take my advice and don't bother. Its a ruddy frustrating waste of time. A few years back I went on a sporting holiday with a group of mates. The beach footie, tennis and cricket was ace. The golf in some of the finest courses in the world, in Le Toucet, less so. Firstly there are the needlessly oppressive rules 'around' the game eg what you 'must' wear, etc. Then the realisation that instead of hacking around the undergrowth lashing balls into lakes trying to play golf, if I'd spent the 40 notes for the game on mahogany instead and 2 hours of my life not playing golf, I could've made myself a nice coffee table.

Watching @chrismpw play golf, must have been a thing of beauty. I bet your mates took you just hoping some Jenni Murray type told you to tuck your top in or that your shorts were wrong just to watch the apocalyptic outcome.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Standard golf gear these days is actually quite smart and comfortable, mate. It's a far more inclusive sport then most realise.

You sound like you watched 'The legend of Bagger Vance' and haven't let that image change in your head.

You want to see the gear some of the girls play in on the LPGA...

Not entirely serious...some of my best friends play golf. But being told to tuck your shirt in is ridiculous and a hangover from those rather restrictive days.

But I do often see people putting their clubs in the car boot when I'm out and about and it's probably 50/50 but that's still a lot who dress like utter weapons. Like the middle aged blokes who dress in lycra to form pelotons on busy A-roads during rush hour.

 

[chrismpw]

Standard golf gear these days is actually quite smart and comfortable, mate. It's a far more inclusive sport then most realise.

You sound like you watched 'The legend of Bagger Vance' and haven't let that image change in your head.

You want to see the gear some of the girls play in on the LPGA...

She wouldn't be allowed on our local pitch and put without a collar.

 

[chrismpw]

Watching @chrismpw play golf, must have been a thing of beauty. I bet your mates took you just hoping some Jenni Murray type told you to tuck your top in or that your shorts were wrong just to watch the apocalyptic outcome.

True to say I lost as many clubs in that damn lake as I lost balls.

 

[Tommy.]

Not entirely serious...some of my best friends play golf. But being told to tuck your shirt in is ridiculous and a hangover from those rather restrictive days.

But I do often see people putting their clubs in the car boot when I'm out and about and it's probably 50/50 but that's still a lot who dress like utter weapons. Like the middle aged blokes who dress in lycra to form pelotons on busy A-roads during rush hour.

Yeah, I'll concede to you on that one.
I'm certainly not in the business of defending the 'arl fellas who still feel it's a pre-requisite to dress like a liquorice all sort and put novelty 'see you Jimmy' head covers on their woods.

 

[Seathestars]

My advice would be to get lessons off a pro before going out with your mates.