Things You Never Knew About Golf

           I will begin by admitting that I don’t like golf. Not only am I too klutzy to play it, but I also object to it as a concept. Now, you golfers, don’t go throwing a good club at me and getting as bent out of shape as that club.

          Before I tell you why I oppose it, here are some statistics you may not know:

          Less than 30% of the players are female. There was an upsurge during the pandemic, but it’s still a man’s sport.

          In its favor, A golfsupport.com survey of 500 golfers’ wives and 500 wives of non-golfers, says golfers have the happiest marriages, with  80% of the golfers’ wives rating their marriage 5 out of 5, compared to 59% of the non-golfer wives.

          However, Golf Monthly says 17% of male golfers use golf to hide infidelity.

          Okay, enough stats. Here are my reasons for opposing this activity:

1.      It takes too much time. You really need to devote an entire day to this, and think what else you could have accomplished, to say nothing of spending time with your family. (Exception: If your whole family golfs with you, then I’m for it.)

2.     I can’t get excited about the idea of getting a ball into a little hole. Again, this could be due to my own lack of coordination, but it seems there should be more to this. I mean, if someone discovered that cave men played golf, I would not find it a bit surprising (and they had clubs, remember).

3.     It becomes an obsession. People move next to golf courses, take golfing vacations, wear golf clothes all the time, even get divorced over it.    

4.    Does this happen with other sports? Check out my blog about making several sports more exciting here (totally worth the read).

5.     And, finally, it’s basically Tiddly Winks, except you walk around the block between plays. In fact, maybe we should rename it Tiddly Links.

 (St. Bob asked why I’m on such a tear about golf and I admitted that I really just wanted to make the Tiddly Winks analogy.)

But I still say your time would be much better spent checking out the hundreds of easy life hacks you can find on my Youtube Mom channel.