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03/02/2007 04:40:09 AM · #1 |
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03/02/2007 04:47:47 AM · #2 |
Complete CRAP. Why is golf even considered a sport. Those wussies! What a big, crying SISSY.
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03/02/2007 04:54:07 AM · #3 |
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03/02/2007 04:57:22 AM · #4 |
| Oh for cryin' out loud - if he sues the woman, I'll help contribute to her defense fund, and I mean it. YEAH, what a BIG, FAT, CRYING SISSY. |
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03/02/2007 05:01:53 AM · #5 |
| He likely confused the shutter click with the sound of a can of beer opening...a sound that'd derail the Daly Train any day. |
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03/02/2007 05:11:19 AM · #6 |
| It's not his fault. It's the fault of the other people who take him seriously. In some parts of the world he would be lapidated for his claim... |
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03/02/2007 05:37:20 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by hsolakidis:
It's not his fault. It's the fault of the other people who take him seriously. In some parts of the world he would be lapidated for his claim... |
Word of the day? |
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03/02/2007 05:53:27 AM · #8 |
| Dispite of what everybody thinks about golf it is acually kind of hard on your body. Try to walk 10-20 kilometers with 10-15 kg of clubs on your back. And hitting several hundreds of balls. If you go at it for a whole day i garante you will have some sore places in the morning ;) |
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03/02/2007 06:10:00 AM · #9 |
Why is it that a golfer needs complete silence to hit a ball that is sitting still, yet baseball players have no problem (for the most part) hitting a ball coming at them 90 mph with 50,000 people hooting and hollering?
I like golf, but this is ridiculous. If you are going to be "the best" at something, you should be able to do it well even if there are distractions. Yeah, that means you too, Tiger Woods.
Message edited by author 2007-03-02 06:10:25.
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03/02/2007 06:32:04 AM · #10 |
| geez... wonder what a fart would have done to him. |
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03/02/2007 06:55:04 AM · #11 |
| I, for one, HATE playing when it's completely silent. I'll often talk during my own swing. :-) |
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03/02/2007 06:59:39 AM · #12 |
There's a reason the tournament (probably several actually) has a no camera policy - the distraction being one of them, and I can understand the need for it. A beer can opening would probably be as distracting.
Actually, if they allowed cameras in general, eventually the golfers would get used to some noise of that nature in the background - but until then if it's not anticipated by the golfers I can understand the distraction.
To stop motion abruptly like that, an injury could happen.
I'm not a huge golf fan (boring to watch IMO, ok to play once in awhile), but put yourself in the golfer's shoes for a minute and try to see it from his POV. |
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03/02/2007 07:04:39 AM · #13 |
rofl. this is too hilarious. Sounds like a typical fatass complaining because his shoelace wasn't tied right.
Try walking 10-20 kilometers with 10-15kg of golf clubs on your back? What the heck? Why not try hiking for a day and a half up and down hills on slippery rocks and stubby tree roots with a 60 lb pack... it's a lot more like exercise... and don't the pros use caddies and golf carts? Funny thing is, day hiking is considered an activity that just about anyone can do with very little training.
What I find amusing is that the exercise part of golf is the stuff that you do between actually playing the game.
Saying that golf is a sport with injury risk because of all the walking with 'heavy' packs is like saying that basketball isn't because during the time that you aren't playing the game, you are just sitting on a bench.
and I don't even like professional sports - including basketball. It sure would be a hoot to introduce the guy to the new Canon EOS 1D Mk III... 10FPS *drool*
Message edited by author 2007-03-02 07:05:49. |
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03/02/2007 07:06:19 AM · #14 |
Originally posted by larryslights:
Why is it that a golfer needs complete silence to hit a ball that is sitting still, yet baseball players have no problem (for the most part) hitting a ball coming at them 90 mph with 50,000 people hooting and hollering? ... |
Put an empty coffee can in the outfield the baseball must be hit into in order to score and the concentration level of the game increases by several orders of magnitude.
David
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03/02/2007 08:42:38 AM · #15 |
Originally posted by larryslights:
Why is it that a golfer needs complete silence to hit a ball that is sitting still, yet baseball players have no problem (for the most part) hitting a ball coming at them 90 mph with 50,000 people hooting and hollering? |
Maybe you should try hitting a ball 300 yards before you'd be in a position to know if you need to concentrate or if it is physically demanding ?
Message edited by author 2007-03-02 08:43:17. |
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03/02/2007 08:57:34 AM · #16 |
| ummm, if the course/event had a no camera policy, she is in the wrong regardless of how easy you think golf may be. the fact that there was such a policy, hearing a shutter click would be even more distracting because it would be something you wouldn't expect. AND, i can see Daly getting hurt. His swing is 99% power and 1% finesse. |
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03/02/2007 08:57:59 AM · #17 |
This is exactly why I've always been soured against golf. Back in the 80s when I was shooting for my local newspaper, they'd send me up to the country club every so often to shoot a group of golfers for one reason or another.
I wasn't exactly making big bucks in the first place, and these idiots would literally make me wait HOURS sometimes before they'd agree to stand there for 1/60th of a second. They had absolutely no consideration for my time at all, and treated me as though I was there to inject them with needles containing a horrible disease, as opposed to putting them in the paper.
And here at the pro level you have these guys who are supposedly the best of the best, and they whine and whimper at something as stupid as a shutter going off. Look pal, if you're making bajillions of dollars to play golf and you have problems with concentration, that's YOUR problem, not mine.
I actually shot a couple pictures of John Daly a couple years ago when I found myself standing next to him on the sidelines of the Steelers game (frankly, I had no idea who he was until someone else told me). Lucky I didn't distract him! |
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03/02/2007 09:04:28 AM · #18 |
your title of this thread says it all
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03/02/2007 09:05:51 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by karmat:
ummm, if the course/event had a no camera policy, she is in the wrong regardless of how easy you think golf may be. the fact that there was such a policy, hearing a shutter click would be even more distracting because it would be something you wouldn't expect. AND, i can see Daly getting hurt. His swing is 99% power and 1% finesse. |
The story said she lives on the grounds where the tournament was held so she didn't know about the event rules about cameras, (she didn't enter through a security gate). |
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03/02/2007 09:06:49 AM · #20 |
that's no excuse. the policy is there, she was violating it.
not knowing the speed limit doesn't give me a license to speed. |
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03/02/2007 09:10:19 AM · #21 |
For the most part, folks who criticize golf in general as not being very difficult, well, have a lot to learn.
Golf is difficult beyond belief at an amateur level. Golf at the pro level is probably 200X more difficult.
Tiger's dad taught him to deal with distractions by talking to him in the middle of his swing intentionally, just to distract him. The man probably has the steeliest nerves on earth. But when someone violates a course policy and makes unexpected noise at a time when course officials are expected, even required, to make sure that particular noise does NOT happen, there's an issue.
See, in golf, you can stop a backswing and it doesn't count against you. That's why Tiger stops his when he hears a gallery roar somewhere. BUT, if the noise affects your concentration to where the swing changes and you continue the motion, the ball is NOT going to go where you meant for it to. It's not a matter of hitting the ball. They're not going to miss the ball, for crying out loud, but the ball may slice or hook tremendously, meaning that their score could potentially go terribly in a negative direction. 1 stroke can mean the difference between going home on Friday and having a chance to compete for the money. If ya go home on Friday, you don't get ANY money, unless you have a contracted "appearance fee" which PGA tour events don't have.
Relax, gang, this is not an issue for "photographers rights" activists to band together. It's private property with controlled access. The photographer in question violated that. Period. It caused an injury because Mr. Daly tried to stop his swing, and believe me, when you are fully committed to a swing and stop it, injury is not only possible but likely.
By the way, PGA tour professional golfers do not use carts. They do have caddies, but no carts.
Baseball players often miss the ball entirely, by the way. Pro golfers virtually never have that problem.
And, as Gordon says, if you've never actually succeeded at hitting a ball 300 yards while making it land in a fairway only 20-30 yards wide, I highly recommend you try it. It's very addictive, and I bet you'll soon have a profound respect for the athletes that play the greatest game on earth.
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03/02/2007 09:19:01 AM · #22 |
Hmmm, I'm thinking about motorcycle racers who have to nail the corner inch perfect with exact throttle movement, bodyweight shift and gear action (the needle goes to the redline in the blink of an eye). But they do it with 120 dB of screaming engine underneath.
At least it is a heck of a lot more exciting to shoot!
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03/02/2007 09:19:56 AM · #23 |
Originally posted by ludde:
Dispite of what everybody thinks about golf it is acually kind of hard on your body. Try to walk 10-20 kilometers with 10-15 kg of clubs on your back. And hitting several hundreds of balls. If you go at it for a whole day i garante you will have some sore places in the morning ;) |
Professional Golfers dont carry their bags they have a caddy to do that for them. As far as hitting several hundred balls, do it every day of the week and its second nature, just like being used to doing your job daily. Carry my camera bag around all day while shooting tournaments and tell me your not sore if your not used to it. Heck the first few weeks of any season that makes me shoot different I get a bit sore in places that didnt hurt in the previous season.
The fact remains that as a professional he should have been able to continue his swing and not had any issues with a camera shutter. Golf is a boring sport and the golfers are some of the biggest whiners you could see. Its amazing that a high school kid who isnt used to being in front of any camera can shoot a normal round of golf while being followed by a photographer but a professional golfer cant.
MattO
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03/02/2007 09:20:32 AM · #24 |
if you're distracted by the sound of a camera clicking (remember he's outdoors, with heaps of other natural sounds also around) then you're not much of a sportsperson ... bunch of millionaires whining about having their photo taken during a swing. boo freaking hoo!!!
i agree that she's in violation of the course rules, but daly is an idiot for trying to stop his swing during the backswing.
i play golf, and i know it's a difficult game. but if you can't swing a club while someone is clicking a camera, then you shouldn't be in the pga.
/end rant! :)
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03/02/2007 09:20:57 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Hmmm, I'm thinking about motorcycle racers who have to nail the corner inch perfect with exact throttle movement, bodyweight shift and gear action (the needle goes to the redline in the blink of an eye). But they do it with 120 dB of screaming engine underneath.
At least it is a heck of a lot more exciting to shoot! |
but, they are expecting the noise to be there. :P |
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