Lets be honest, it has sod all to do about walking or golf for that matter. Its very simple really, it’s down to the individual to decide what and how he plays a game that was know as golf. To walk, ride, let others do the carrying, getting experienced advice, marking distance or obtaining distance from all forms of electronic aids. The game of golf is just secondary when you come right down to the bottom line.
However, Golf is not about what you want to do, it’s about a game with Rules and a very important Etiquette. Its about honour (cheats are frowned upon), about playing the game, of conducting yourself in accordance with the rules and etiquette laid down over many, many years. The standardisation of behaviour, which is accepted to all, an equality, irrespective if you are the highest or lowest, richest or poorest in the land (today The World).
But guess what, certain people don’t understand the game or for that what is behind the game or what it’s all about. The game is being corrupted and money rules, The R&A are servants of money, disgraceful behaviour is being overlooked because of childish and potential dangerous antics of some who should know better.
Give him a break, some say, but what about the Game of Golf, does that not deserve a break from these morons. Action can be taken, it’s should be taken and the game need to clean up its act.
Many on here want no action taken, they see is as part of the game, ‘Bollocks’, it may be part of your game, it may be acceptable to you, your parents and your culture, but my friends it does not mean its right. The privileged are already privileged, they don’t need to be allowed to get away with this type of perform in public. If it is not controlled soon, we are sending out a dangerous message, that all are excused if they are brilliant and worth a fortune. Therefore, it soon will be OK for the rich drunk driver to kill, the rich guy to rape your wife or girlfriend, a rich guy dislikes the way you look so attacks you result you are in hospital. Its OK guys they are rich and are just having a bad time, its only his first rape, their first assault, their first murder – well sorry its NOT OK, we have laws to combat this type of thing and Golf also has its rules and more importantly its Etiquette to protect all form this type of behaviour spreading onto a golf course.
Golf is a walking game first and foremost, carts are acceptable for those who need to use them to play. There should not be a golf club or course that bans walking, to do so is in itself an attack upon our game of Golf, its discrimination in the first degree. Carting is not a right, it did not mature with the early stages of the game, they did not exist until the 1950’s. Nevertheless, walking constitutes the very essence of the game, it is golf or as much about golf as golf can be.
However, it’s not all about walking, is it? It’s about stamping the right of an individual to play how he wants. But, that is not golf, we have rules and course Etiquette as to how to play, why start playing a game then want to change it, certainly not for the good of the game, the golfer or the health of the part time player. Does it really all boil down to just plain bloody laziness, is that what all this is about. The great game of golf bastardised because of laziness. What an epitaph to put on the tombstone of golf.
“Here lies the once Great Game of Golf, starved of challenges due to laziness”
Look on the bright side, at least you got to play the game your way before you finally could not see the point of the game.
Melvyn