Here's a copy/paste of a recent Facebook exchange:
D____ B____:
I am with Shane why is everyone all the sudden golf haters??? It should be what people want to play!! U can't get hurt, u can eat and drink while u play, u get to be outside, and u don't have to be good to have fun!
Beau Watkins:
It probably has something to do with how middle class golfing has taken northeastern Alabama by storm in the last decade, and about how, as a result of its being stripped of its privileged class status, it has gone from seeming highfalutin to seeming passé.
Or maybe it's that people are starving in X country, while people living in a country much, much deeper in debt than X country are stuffing their fat faces and playing golf.
Or it could be that it's dull to watch and it hurts your back to play. I dunno. I like it. Well, I like the idea of it. I can't afford to play it.
M_____ P_____:
Please Beau! There are soo many reason our country is in the shape it is in....please don't pin it on golf! I can't believe I am about to defend the game of golf... But here we go....I think what David is saying is fair. However, in my humble opinion...like it even matters....most men, and I use men in this particular illustration bc they are the majority in golf, have their priorities misconstrued. Don't get me wrong, women do the same thing in other aspects,.but the subject here is golf.
And that's where most significant others take issue....there ya go...there's ny two cents for anyone who gives anything about hearing it.
Beau Watkins:
1.) I couch my response's language in conditionals (e.g., probably, maybe, could).
2.) Hitler created golf in an attempt to regain the favor of his German Shepherd, Blondi, whom he believed spoke to him, and whose respect he believed he had lost with the Germans' failure to secure the Ardennes Mountains during the Battle of the Bulge. (Volkwagen even named one of their vehicles a "Golf" in honor of this well-known fact.) Everyone knows dogs love balls, holes, and going for walks. Golf was born of Hitler's acknowledgment of this. Hitler's having created golf renders it an instant and indisputable evil.
3.) The British version of golf, Carpetby, is widely held to be superior. Faster, harder, no shoulder pads.
M_____ P_____:
Beau, are you trying to impress me with you knowledge of Hitler's dog? This is useless info in response to my point....you can do better. I'm talking about real human emotions.....you can relate...I'm sure. We are not talking about narcissistic dictators! I don't need a very boring history lesson of these "well-known facts" you speak of. Come on....get real with me for a second!
Beau Watkins:
I wouldn't call Hitler a Narcissist. I might call him an opportunistic, demagogic, xenophobic, manic depressive, bull-headed, self-loathing lapsed Catholic with possible Jewish heritage and some daddy issues.
Well, maybe he was a little bit of a Narcissist--no more so than the average Narcissist, though. (Not that there's any real way of knowing.)
You flatter me when you say I can relate on a human level.
M_____ P_____:
I'm glad I could pump up your ego....;)....I enjoy the conversation and seeing the inner workings of how your mind operates...along with others. Very interesting.....an you taught me something too....didn't know Hitler created golf....now the question is...am I going to trust you on it or go look it up! Ha.
Beau Watkins:
Speaking of women golfers:
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