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[โ€“] Thorry@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah it's probably just certain clubs and perhaps even a regional thing. I know people who golf that are perfectly normal. It's just something fun to do, be out in nature, shoot the shit with friends and have a nice game among friends. They don't take it very seriously at all.

I went with them once and it was a fun time. The golf course we went to wasn't some kind of weird exclusive rich people club. Just a nice golf course with a rental place for equipment for visitors and a good restaurant/bar for lunch, drinks and dinner. We stayed for dinner and it was a good time. The golf course was full of regular folk having fun. There were no golf carts on this property, people just walked.

We were behind a group of girls who weren't very good and spent more time doing selfies and filming than actually playing the game. They had 7 people, which the course normally doesn't allow, but the management said they thought it wouldn't be that busy that day so allowed it. Normally they allow 4 people max, maybe 5 as an exception. Otherwise they need to split up as to not block a hole too long causing a line to form behind them. We opted to skip the hole they were on, so we would be in front of them and didn't have to wait all the time. The girls had enough by lunchtime and spent the rest of the day taking selfies at the bar. So we backtracked and did the hole we missed.

It was really fun, I was just very bad at it. My drives were very good, but my putting was awful. I only had mini-golf experience, so I thought it would be the other way around. But putting on an actual green with a real putter is something completely different from mini-golf it turns out.

This is far closer to my own experience with golfing. It's like people hear about the absolute worst case scenario of rich assholes, private clubs, and people who take things way too seriously, and then assume that those problems are inherent to golf itself.

The little bit of golfing I've done was always at public courses, and it was always just normal people around.