Somebody was talking trash about the game of golf. I offer this topic to anyone who wants to contribute their thoughts on the subject. I think golf is a great game. It's fun to watch, although usually so for people who play it and like it. Like all great games, it combines a great deal of mental work as physical work. While the phyiscal part of the game is not as taxing on the body as other sports, mastering it is easily the hardest part. Anyone who plays golf or has tried to play knows how frustrating this is. Golf has a rich and very long history. As with almost everything, there are a few bumps in the road. For a long time, golf has been a white collar sport and it still is today. You don't see beer commercials when you watch golf on TV, but you see a hell of a lot of Merril Lynch, ING, IBM, etc etc commercials. That's just one thing I've noticed. Golf is expensive too, to expensive I and many other people think. Equipment, lessons, and greens fees are all expensive. You trade lower greens fees for quality in a course. Even though Tiger Woods has been the best player in the world since the late 90s, there are few African American professional golfers. Some clubs have an unfortunate history of denying minorities and women. Baseball had a color barrier too. To call golf racist is ridiculous. Golf is a white collar sport because courses are expensive to create and maintain and thus it is expensive to play. Clubs are extremely expensive too. So are baseball bats and hockey sticks. The first Synergy (a composite stick made by Easton) still runs around $100 at most stores and dealers. They break..golf clubs don't (unless you're an idiot and mistreat them, or there's an accident). However, these blunders surround golf. I am defending the game itself and it's one that I love.

But not as much as baseball