Oh dear me ! - bubbles burst

Subject: Oh dear me ! - musical golfers
From: GUEST,Betsy
Date: 26 Nov 09 - 08:19 PM

Listening to Alice Cooper on Radio 5 this week (UK BBC ) apparently he is a scratch golfer. This basically means he is good enough to be a professional golfer.

He named quite a few performers who are also "addicted" to golf including one Bob Dylan.

There's a lot of then around in folk .
Are we allowed to be Folkies AND Golfers ?

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Nov 09 - 08:28 PM

Willie Nelson is also "addicted" to golf.

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From: Leadfingers
Date: 26 Nov 09 - 08:29 PM

Gol is just another way of spoiling a nice walk in the couuntry

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From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Nov 09 - 09:27 PM

We call it "Pasture Pool" out in my neck of the woods.

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Nov 09 - 09:59 PM

No, Gol is what you have if you say Bob Dylan can't sing...a lotta Gol.

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From: pdq
Date: 26 Nov 09 - 10:04 PM

"All Gol is divided into three parts..."

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From: Ed T
Date: 26 Nov 09 - 10:20 PM

Well, I"ll be gol-darned. Hard to believe.

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From: frogprince
Date: 26 Nov 09 - 11:23 PM

Golf: noun: An ineffectual effort to place an uncontrollable sphere in an inaccessable hole, using instruments ill suited to the purpose.

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From: mandotim
Date: 27 Nov 09 - 02:06 AM

The full story is interesting; apparently in the depths of his struggles with alcohol, Alice recognised that he had an 'addictive personality', and would always tend to follow particular paths to excess. He simply transferred his alcohol addiction to something less harmful.
To the originator; 'Scratch golfer' means very good amateur, not someone who is good enough to be a pro.
Tim (who no longer plays golf, but is still a folkie, sort of)

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From: Dave Hanson
Date: 27 Nov 09 - 02:48 AM

Golf ? a good walk spoiled, well someone had to say it.

Dave H

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From: open mike
Date: 27 Nov 09 - 02:55 AM

someone did say it...Leadfingers...several posts ago;;

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From: Rasener
Date: 27 Nov 09 - 03:25 AM

At least Golf gets you out walking and to play at a high level needs a tremendous amount of concentration whilst playing each shot, which I always found great for forgetting any problems/issues at home or work.

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From: Will Fly
Date: 27 Nov 09 - 03:29 AM

When I was a very small child, in Glasgow in the late '40s, my father would drag me round Milnegavie (pronounced "Mul-guy") golf course every Sunday. 18 holes is a long, long way for a small child, and I've retained a pronounced aversion (pronounced "aversion") to goff ever since...

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From: Splott Man
Date: 27 Nov 09 - 04:03 AM

Noel Murphy is no mean player too.

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From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 27 Nov 09 - 05:19 AM

As a former caddie, I consider that golf, or goff, is the placing of a sphere of approximare diameter one inch and three quarters, upon a sphere of approximate diameter 28.000 miles : the object being to hit the small sphere

without hitting the big sphere.

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From: Rasener
Date: 27 Nov 09 - 05:34 AM

A few famous people on these photo's

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/image_galleries/wiltshire_celebrity_golf_day_gallery.shtml?1

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From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Nov 09 - 08:23 PM

Kicking a stone along the road or going for a walk with a dog and throwing a stick for it to retrieve are earlier forms of the same activity. As with many things, earlier tends to be better.

There's an Irish development of the stone kicking version, Road Bowling, in which a bowl (originally a cannon ball) is thrown along a road competitively. Now that might be more in line with what we'd expect of our folk ruffians...

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From: Ed T
Date: 27 Nov 09 - 09:16 PM

It's useless to flog a dead golfer.

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From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Nov 09 - 09:50 PM

Tiger Woods- Income 2007, $117 million; total lifetime now approaching $1 billion.

Not bad for "pasture pool."

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From: Alice
Date: 27 Nov 09 - 09:53 PM

Speaking of Tiger Woods, he was in a car accident at his home this evening, running into a tree, cuts on his lips, no major injury.

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From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 28 Nov 09 - 05:48 AM

Great places Golf Courses. Short and long grass plus areas of undisturbed woodland.
Perfect conditions for a wide and interesting range of mushrooms, edible and otherwise.
I've had some of the best meals in my life courtesy of golf! Don't knock it.
As for the exercise factor. Nothing wrong with a good long walk in pleasant green surroundings. Like angling, it gives a reason for spending time somewhere nice without guilt.
I don't play golf, but I can see more purpose than throwing sticks and kicking a small dog along a road...
Quack!
GtD.

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From: kendall
Date: 28 Nov 09 - 05:53 AM

When they invented golf is when Diogenese gave up his quest for an honest man.

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From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 28 Nov 09 - 07:01 AM

Alice Cooper has been a golfer for decades.

It is common because it is exercise (a good walk spoiled), it is fairly expensive and fairly anonymous. And you can do it during the day when not on stage. There are a lot of clubs around the world.

Pete Townsend was (is?) a well respected serious book reviewer. I guess he wasn't into spoiling good walking.

Musicians at their level have a lot of time on their hands in strange towns. Tom Jones has to have a bodygaurd because he likes to go shopping. In olden days the bodyguard would probably be called a gentleman's gentleman or emmanuensis.

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From: GUEST,lox
Date: 28 Nov 09 - 07:07 AM

Yes - I've heard that tiger woods has been working on his driving ...

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From: GUEST,lox
Date: 28 Nov 09 - 07:08 AM

or perhaps I should have said - his drives have been a bit wild lately ...