Post #2414234

2026-05-11 12:13 UTC

Lived a few years in Aberdeen, the birthplace of golf. over there it makes sense. That grass grows naturally, everyone has a golf court at a walking distance, fun sociable walk (about 9 to 18km of walking), carts are practically banned there. it isn’t a rich hobby. On a nice day you can see everyone golfing, even if it is a couple kids with a couple of clubs (no need for a whole set which you still have to carry). It’s a genuine people’s sport. Everywhere else? where you need lots of water and land to maintain, and it’s only for rich cunts with golf carts? fuck that.

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@cadmiumsandbox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-11 12:39

that makes a lot of sense. colonization and rich flaunting has the effect of transposing things to where they make no sense and requires destruction to make work at all. example that comes to my mind is how cheap concrete and steel construction being imposed on third world countries by its neocolonizers, places where its expensive to create and makes construction worse bc its not suitable for every environment. and the rich of third world countries picking glass metal generic skyscrapers to flaunt their wealth, constructing them in places where its horrible

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@rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2026-05-11 21:15

I bet the lower parts of Scotland (and probably most of the higher areas, too) was forest before humans started cultivating it.

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@borkborkbork@piefed.social 2026-05-12 00:24

Honestly I look at golf as a different sport entirely here in the US. It’s all about exclusive clubs, racist segregation, flagrant wasting of resources to benefit a tiny minority, and often using public funds to subsidize a shitty sport so rich people can pay less for their racist bullshit. I do wonder how the average scotsman feels because your perspective from living there a few years doesn’t really tell us the entire story, just your POV.

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@fun_times@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 20:07

That reminds me of when I was a kid and I and my family would play the home-made hybrid game "croquet golf" on our (very uneven) lawn. It was really fun. Essentially, it was golf rules with croquet equipment. My dad dug nine holes in our lawn for that game.

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