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43 minutes ago, Art Vandelay said:

The biggest mystery in sports. They need to do a 30 in 30 just on that swing.

 

 But I think he proves that athleticism is a big part of golf. 

 

That's what I mean, fantastic golfer.  

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16 minutes ago, Art Vandelay said:

Caddies are more of a traditional thing when golf was for the elites. Was only like 50 years ago, only blacks were allowed to carry your clubs at Augusta. Also, traditionally profession golfers player 36 holes a day on Saturday then Sunday, after working all week. (golf didn't pay bills professionally unless you were Harry Vardon, Ted Ray, Walter Hagen...etc, most were amateurs). So when when the PGA and any other tour started, caddies were actually necessary and since have evolved for other things.

 

Now a days caddies provide players information on the course, and also provide help in other ways that make the came speed up (takes almost 5 hours already).

 

I won't argue with you that one round of golf as a teen is not strenuous. But with practice, practice rounds, then 4 rounds in 4 days, i'm sure you would eventually say that golf is physically tiring. 

 

If your original post was to say golf is not strenuous, and shouldn't be in the Olympics then I'm okay with that opinion. But rather I just disagree.

I used to play Baseball at Kwantlen College, practice Mon-Fri 2-3 hours a day, Sat-Sun double header games. Every week same routine now that was physically tiring and that's not even professional. 

 

The only time I can see a golfer using all his strength to hit a ball is like once a hole max normally, the rest of the shots are more strategic and accurate but your not using physical strength, all the time. Plus so much rest between shots.

 

Fare enough. Yeah that's not my argument, it's all about physical, but this is why as humans we have different opinions, your entitled to yours as I am as well.

 

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I'll never understand spectators who feel the need to shout after being asked to be quiet so the athletes can start a race. Thankfully no issues in the last few days but there one where someone yelled right before the signal to start a final race last week. 

 

 

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1 minute ago, Down by the River said:

Maybe the men will finally get a medal here.

I was having that conversation with my GF just now.  

I still think our women doing so well compared to our men, has more to do with other countries not sponsoring women to the same degree as their men.....Canada is more equal.

So in essence our men sucking, proves what a great country we are.

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7 minutes ago, BCNeil said:

I was having that conversation with my GF just now.  

I still think our women doing so well compared to our men, has more to do with other countries not sponsoring women to the same degree as their men.....Canada is more equal.

So in essence our men sucking, proves what a great country we are.

I 100% agree with this.

 

In no way should this diminish the accomplishment of the Canadian women at this Olympics, but I think it can be a point of pride that, in Canada, although support for women's sport may still not be on part with men, relative to other countries, it is well ahead of the curve. 

 

 

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Why do some athletes go only to get crushed in competition? The experience? Some financial incentive? I see some guys in the marathons and I feel bad for them because they're a mile behind and were all but officially out of medal contention 10 minutes ago. Like the 10,000 meters. Mo Farah and the top guys lapped the basement dwellers numerous times. I dunno enough about it but I would think that unless you can challenge expected podium times in training, there's no real point in going..

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Oh Ryan Cochrane, refusing to even take a little credit for sparking the success of the swimming program. Classy and humble even after a frustrating race - the kids of the swim program are lucky to have a role model like that.  =) 

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17 minutes ago, ChuckNORRIS4Cup said:

The only time I can see a golfer using all his strength to hit a ball is like once a hole max normally, the rest of the shots are more strategic and accurate but your not using physical strength, all the time. Plus so much rest between shots.

Just to clarify something that you seem to not know(which is weird if you played specifically baseball at a college level), but strength in a golf swing doesn't directly come from muscle mass(raw strength), but rather functional muscle (transferring muscle strength into kinetic energy). When exerting Functional muscle, a person is using more overall energy and much more susceptible to injury. This is why a good swing in baseball/golf is more important than just swinging as hard as you can.


So when you say only one shot is strenuous, you are just wrong. You don't feel tired because you aren't a professional golfer and you seem to think how you play is how a professional athlete plays.   

  

Also to add, golf is one of the highest injury prone sports there is, when you take out incidents injuring you by someone physically hitting you. Around 30 percent of PGA pros are at any point play with some sort of injury, and most have at least one minor injury every year. (One of the physiotherapists (Stuart Love) on the PGA told me about the injury's in an interview a few years ago).

 

To me, a sign of injury's is an indication of being physically strained or at least fatigued. 

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