Rule ⛳

Golf = The game of the bourgeoisie. Mini Golf = The game of the proletariat.

Golf isn’t the problem, it’s golf courses

If you took any random forest or mountain and put a cup at one end then just said go things would be fine

(I know foot traffic is bad, it’s better than bulldozing the whole thing)
- You've basically just described golf's superior cousin: disc golf
Disc golf - the game of the revolutionary
False! Mini golf is the game of the savant and the cultural elite 🧐

Edit doubly so if it’s at night and there are glowing things involved
I like the driving range and I like mini golf but it's the middle game I can't be bothered with playing.

So I nail 120 balls at the driving range then play a round of mini golf.

Damn communists stop me from watering my golf course near Phoenix

Just get a better job, if you can't afford water!

I see this as an absolute win

Golf courses are a waste of space and water, so good riddance.

Only because they don't have enough wildflowers and trees which would make for a much more challenging course.
- Maybe some windmills and a big dinosaur too
- Challenge? Are you aware of what kind of sport golf is? The ball's not even moving when you have to hit it ffs. (I do enjoy the act of golfing, but holy cow is it a pathetic "sport")
- Dens of badgers would help too.
- Sounds like frisby golf

I unironically want to abolish golf. At least in the form it currently exists

I have never played golf. But I enjoy VR mini golf way more than I would like to admit. It's so fun and creative.
- the argument is: a single game requires a minimum of 200 acres of sculpted fancy gardens, non-native plants, little help to polinators, a fuck ton of water, fertilizer and pesticides, and is protected from the general public not only with a fee but also a vetting process, often built at huge expense in an area that would be better served with affordable housing, transport and public amenities.
  
  And it's entire purpose is to extract money from already rich people and enforce a class culture of haves and have-nots while essentially turning the land into a green desert.
- Mini golf is the shit, you ought to get out to a real one with a friend or two some time. Guaranteed you'll enjoy yourself

Marx couldn't made up a better argument to root for communism

Funny, because where I live, municipal tax dollars have been repeatedly used to save a golf course that doesn’t bring in enough revenue to sustain its own existence.

conservatives love to threaten us with a good time.

"You know why they call it golf? Because the word shit was already taken."

Don't threaten me with a good time

They allowed capitalists to win and they bought golf.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2023/jun/13/saudi-arabia-golf-pga-tour-public-investment-fund

That's the capitalists:

The tragic paradox is that for the most part the people who care about sport do not own it and the people who own it do not seem to care for it at all. It is of no consequence to Saudi Arabia whether or not you like golf. Eventually, it will find the thing you do like and your views will not be of interest to them. No, they will not be taking questions. No, you will not be kept up to date on progress. As ever, you will find out what’s happening whenever it decides you need to know.

And if you think "I don't care about golf, no loss" they already have bought all kinds of other tournaments including e-sport.

One of my favorite indie games was bought out by Gearbox, the corporation that's behind the Borderlands movie

I think this will negatively affect the game I like, but I'm happy the developers got serious money. I'll find a new indie game, and hope that the next generation of indie devs gets serious bank by selling their game next.
- Gearbox is also the developer of the borderlands games. Doesn't seem impossible they'll just let the studio do its thing, and inany case they're far from unrelated to game dev.
  
  Though I'd also be concerned any time something I like is bought by another company.
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i wouldn't mind that :3

les goo

Nice riddance

Excellent disposal.

Were communism to take hold, golf's not going anywhere. Private country clubs on the other hand...

Eh, I can see the Proletariat deciding to direct the vast amounts of land destroyed for golf being used for public housing or returned to nature, rather than being a wasteful hobby for the elite

Sure, we’ll get gulags and bread queues, but at least there’ll be an upside.

Inshallah.

I know we can joke about how this is a good thing. But isn’t it much more likely that the State would own the courses?

Or just that there would be less of them and anyone could do it instead of the "elite?"

It's more that golf courses are generally wastes of land, and unless the proletariat deemed them necessary, golf courses would be either given back to the environment or repurposed for public housing or other such socially beneficial projects.