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Extreme golf
Lets face it, the present game is far too dull. | |
One of the many downsides to playing golf is that, should you happen to go for a game on any half-decent day, you invariably spend most of it waiting for the group in front to finish the hole and move on. So, the simple solution is to get everyone wanting a round to sign some sort of disclaimer and give
licences to people who want to tee-off while those in front are still on the green. All of a sudden what was a positively geriatric game becomes much more exciting.
All of a sudden golf allows you to release violent frustrations rather than causing them! Perhaps the greens are too easy for your liking? Well, they are much harder with a few knocked-cold golfers strewn around them, too slow to dodge! Feel like making a dramatic criticism of some golfer's decision to wear a cyan Paisley tank-top and lemon yellow plus fours? Before you could only quietly sneer from a distance, now you can make the fashion victim run! And imagine the combined pressure of having to hole the match winning putt while being constantly aware of incoming projectiles! I can see many a young exec. forgoing their day out paintballing to play golf instead.
A little different, but...
http://www.extremegolf.com/
The idea of livening up the game of golf is well-baked. [globaltourniquet, May 29 2001, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Try this
http://www.halfbake...m/idea/Urban_20golf
[mrthingy, Mar 14 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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I thought this was going to be golf on a cliff edge, or perhaps in a war zone. Violent golf sounds good though. Might become a version of euthanasia, which, if it was selective to the kind of boring Normans that play golf, is a great thing.
Can't help thinking Happy Gilmore though. Watch where you're shoving that 9-iron I tell you! |
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Baked to a crisp. See link. The rules section actually describe a game far better (more interesting) than is presented in this idea. |
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Yeah, a few friends and I used to play twilight hour golf on a par 3 course with little business - we'd play the holes that best fit our logistics in random order if someone else was on the course. A real blast - especially if the 'clubhouse' had already closed up shop - Free!!!!!!!!! < nine flags. OK OK I overused em on purpose. |
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global: I can understand that the idea of livening up golf is well baked (someones got to do something!) but your link misses the key elements in my version - fear and violence. This eXtreme golf is combining golf with jogging - which is really compounding the misery, not improving it. Now all we have is a dull game that includes the dullest of aerobic activities.| — | mcscotland,
May 30 2001, last modified May 31 2001 |
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No, read the rules. You have to drive from the tee while people are on the green. You lose strokes if you hit them. |
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Clubs, legs, nerves and foreheads of steel. |
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It has often intrigued me that, whenever the little tractor comes out to collect balls strewn over the field on a driving range, a lot of people --mostly but not entirely adolescent males -- immediately suspend ongoing practice activity and start whacking balls like crazy in a vain attempt to hit it. |
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