Re: Female sports, are they taken seriously by the media ? : Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:33 am  

DHM wrote:

Golf is not a f******g sport.

A fairly standard Definition of "sport":
An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
Golf is very clearly a sport by any standard definition.

Dita's Slot Meter wrote:

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Its like amateur RL outside the heartlands....People say how the amateur game is flourishing, yet, in reality, its just those who are playing who care for it - Spectator-wise, it barely registers.

A true non sequitur. Amateur RL is a participation sport, the fact that there are not thousands watching every game is not a refelction on the flourishing or non-flourishing of RL. I would suggest Premier League football is by and large flourishing, you wouldn't say that the fact only 20 speccies turn up at park Sunday league games in manchester contradicts that would you?

cod'ead wrote:

So how come Red Rum never won it?

Came close, but doesn't say much.

McLaren_Field wrote:

I've always long held the opinion that a top glass female golfer could certainly hold her own in the male rankings as despite opinions to the contrary its not all about brute force and hitting the ball as hard and as long as you can, but about accuracy, even I, on an exceptionally good day (like once in a lifetime) can make the green of a par five in three (stop laughing at the back) - a 200 yard drive that sticks to the middle of the fairway trumps anyone's 350 yard drive that ends up in the stands, and how many times have you seen Tiger Woods put a ball into the stands (me, once, live, just behind my head)....

Is there anything to stop a woman golfer joining the main Tour? I don't know, but would have thought if one applied, she couldn't nowadays be declined on grounds of sex?

You're not the only one with flashes of amateur brilliance. At Clayton, a nice little sloping 9 hole course, I once held the record for 18 years with a 31.

I did a bit better on the 2nd.

Re: Female sports, are they taken seriously by the media ? : Thu Dec 01, 2011 11:04 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

A fairly standard Definition of "sport":
An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
Golf is very clearly a sport by any standard definition.

Is it played in long pants (and in this instance breeks or plus-fours are long pants)?

If so, disqualified, simple as

Re: Female sports, are they taken seriously by the media ? : Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:29 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

A fairly standard Definition of "sport":
An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
Golf is very clearly a sport by any standard definition.

Chess involves physical exertion. By your "definition" gardening is quite clearly a sport.

Re: Female sports, are they taken seriously by the media ? : Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:43 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Is there anything to stop a woman golfer joining the main Tour? I don't know, but would have thought if one applied, she couldn't nowadays be declined on grounds of sex?

Women (at least one I know of) have been invited to play on events on the main tours through sponsors exemptions.

To qualify for a place on the main tour though, they'd first need to get their tour card by going through qualifying school.

Re: Female sports, are they taken seriously by the media ? : Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:55 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

... Golf is very clearly a sport by any standard definition...

Never mind the "standard" definitions, whatever that means, just listen to your Uncle Barbudo.
It's not a sport, it's a pastime.
I said so, so that's it.
End of.


oh ... and ... FACT !

[Pemps]

Re: Female sports, are they taken seriously by the media ? : Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:56 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Women (at least one I know of) have been invited to play on events on the main tours through sponsors exemptions.

To qualify for a place on the main tour though, they'd first need to get their tour card by going through qualifying school.

I'd love to see Michelle Wie on the greens.

Re: Female sports, are they taken seriously by the media ? : Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:58 pm  

Pemps wrote:

I'd love to see Michelle Wie on the greens.

The greenkeeper wouldn't be too happy

[Pemps]

Re: Female sports, are they taken seriously by the media ? : Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:00 pm  

It's only a sport if you have to change your shoes to do it.

Golf - Sport
Darts - Not sport.

I'd love to see Michelle Wie on the tee.

Re: Female sports, are they taken seriously by the media ? : Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:22 pm  

DHM wrote:

Chess involves physical exertion. By your "definition" gardening is quite clearly a sport.

If you really think moving chess pieces involves "physical exertion" then you are mad as a box of frogs. Honestly, it ain't what we're talking about.

Gardening is, actually, an extremely good source of physical activity. It can involve a great deal of exertion, and usually much aerobic exercise. But it is plainly nutty of you to suggest it fits the definition as a sport, so I am more inclined to the view that you're on the wind up.

Re: Female sports, are they taken seriously by the media ? : Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:27 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Women (at least one I know of) have been invited to play on events on the main tours through sponsors exemptions.

To qualify for a place on the main tour though, they'd first need to get their tour card by going through qualifying school.

So for the Michelle Wies of this world can I assume the answer is she prefers to be a big and very highly paid fish in the female pond than an also-ran earning peanuts in the male pond?