Golf Sucks and this is why

I read this headline yesterday and was disgusted (b4 i started this thing) and since then it has garnered some attention and specifically in the NY area because it appeared in the NY Post and during the Michael Kay show on 1050 am radio Don LaGreca did a segment on it and why it's bullshit that was pretty good. A writer for the Post named George Willis waxed poetically over Tiger Woods winning the US Open on a torn ACL and the headline was "The Toughest Man In Sports" Bull-Fucking-Shit. This man swung a club and walked around. Here in an excerpt from the article "The announcement yesterday he was undergoing surgery on a torn anterior cruciate ligament and is also suffering from a double stress fracture in his left tibia confirmed winning the U.S. Open will go down as one of the greatest athletic achievements of our time. Other athletes - Michael Jordan (flu), Emmitt Smith (dislocated shoulder), Lawrence Taylor (broken leg) - have played games with severe ailments, but Woods had to perform at a high level for five consecutive days. Remarkable." How can you be aware of those athletic feats and rank Tiger ahead of them? If I'm not mistaken in the Emmitt Smith game he rushed for 160 yds and had 10 receptions. My senior year of high school i played football with a torn labrum and capsule in my shoulder that would slip out from time to time. I went to the doctor when i was in college and he basically said i tore everything in my shoulder, ligaments, cartledge and tendons and possibly my rotator cuff as well but i still played with it. I will venture to say that was more difficult that what Tiger did. Even worse this person writes for a New York paper. He's not out in Buttfuck North Dakota where nothing ever happens he watched Plaxico Burress basically play half a season and make the game winning catch in the superbowl on one ankle. He watched Sean Avery of the New York Rangers lacerate his spleen in the first period of a playoff game against the Penguins. Not only did Avery not miss a shift but each period after it happened he saw more ice time because it was a must win game. It almost fucking killed him. What about Patrick Ewing in the playoffs a few years back playing with a blown out Achilles? Remember the game where he missed a game winning layup as time expired and everyone was in an uproar because he didn't dunk the ball? The reason he didn't dunk is he couldn't, he had no Achilles tendon in his heel and could not physically hop up in the air the 2 inches it would have required for a man that is 7 feet tall to dunk the ball. I won't even talk about Willis Reed because that happened almost 30 years ago. Tiger hits a ball walks a little hits a ball then walks a little more. Granted it was tough and i'm sure it hurt but there was no outside threat of harm bodily harm he could suffer from other competitors if he failed. If he failed due to physical limitations all he would do is lose and still take home a huge payday. If an athlete from a real sport fails due to physical limitations from an injury they are playing through they have the potential to get themselves and those around them hurt. Also if a real sport athlete sits out because of an injury he still gets paid just the same as if he played. Golfers, barring sponsors and endorsements, get paid for playing these games and are compensated based on where they finish. So when Sean Avery decided to play through the pain a few months ago he was compensated just the same as if he had decided to sit out. He didn't get a bonus for playing extra time. Based on that alone example alone it puts this article to shame without even encountering the 100's of other examples. Every athlete that has offseason surgery didn't hurt themselves in the final game of the year but rather they played numerous games with the pain for no added bonus. Sometimes i think i would like to play golf but i don't really think that i actually want to play golf as much as i think that i should play golf because it seems like the thing to do, just because i'm white in my mid-twenties and reasonably athletic (on a side note several years ago i went to a driving range for shits and giggles and was being outdriven by a 12 yr old chinese girl) Fuck that this makes me proud to not play or watch golf at all. To me it really seems like everyone else is trying really hard to convince you that if you don't play golf that you should and that it really is a sport not a game or hobby and they people that play that really are athletes. Thats all garbage. Who are these people really trying to convince you or themselves?