|
Post by Brighttail on Nov 25, 2015 16:46:20 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by AFCTUJacko on Nov 25, 2015 17:22:58 GMT -5
Golf doesn't belong in the Olympics.
Nor does any professional sport for that matter
|
|
|
Post by Brighttail on Nov 25, 2015 17:33:11 GMT -5
Golf doesn't belong in the Olympics. Nor does any professional sport for that matter That criteria would kill most of the sports as there are... Professional football players, Professional archery, gymnastics, track n field and more..... I suppose it depends on your definition of professional. Whether or not you get paid for performance.
|
|
|
Post by AFCTUJacko on Nov 25, 2015 17:45:42 GMT -5
Golf doesn't belong in the Olympics. Nor does any professional sport for that matter That criteria would kill most of the sports as there are... Professional football players, Professional archery, gymnastics, track n field and more..... I suppose it depends on your definition of professional. Whether or not you get paid for performance. The vast vast vast majority of Olympic athletes don't get "paid" per se for what they do. Large percentages of them have day jobs. They might receive grant funding or money through personal sponsorship, but that's mainly to cover costs....and hardly the same as Golf/Tennis where they literally compete for large pots of money week in week out. And i'm obviously not talking about the Usain Bolts of this world. More to the point, Olympic Gold should be the pinnacle of a sport, but i'm pretty sure any golfer would rather win a major, and any Tennis player would rather win Wimbledon.
|
|
|
Post by pablo on Nov 25, 2015 17:45:42 GMT -5
Golf doesn't belong in the Olympics. Nor does any professional sport for that matter I get your point, but maybe then visa, coca-cola, all those sponsor don't belong neither. And the IOC would not love those olympic games. For sure Pierre de Coubertain would support that "amateurism". The world we are living "needs" sponsoring. Visa would not pay a tenth of what is paying now if instead of Usain Bolt, the 100 m. were won by an unknown athlete who is studying in some university in, for instance, Siberia. Obviously in this second case the sportmanship would be incredibly bigger. But the IOC members luxurious lives are not paid with sportmanship.
|
|
|
Post by Brighttail on Nov 25, 2015 17:53:07 GMT -5
Unless you are the top of your sport and get the endorsements OR unless you are from the eastern block countries who are born, then bred for these types of sports, you are right, they don't get paid.
|
|
|
Post by AFCTUJacko on Nov 25, 2015 17:55:07 GMT -5
Golf doesn't belong in the Olympics. Nor does any professional sport for that matter I get your point, but maybe then visa, coca-cola, all those sponsor don't belong neither. And the IOC would not love those olympic games. For sure Pierre de Coubertain would support that "amateurism". The world we are living "needs" sponsoring. Visa would not pay a tenth of what is paying now if instead of Usain Bolt, the 100 m. were won by an unknown athlete who is studying in some university in, for instance, Siberia. Obviously in this second case the sportmanship would be incredibly bigger. But the IOC members luxurious lives are not paid with sportmanship. It sure is an interesting and difficult compromise to maintain the initial concept of the Olympics in the corporate world we live in today. I guess my point above is the most important in a way. Olympic Gold should be (and is) the dream for most of the athletes who compete there. Golfers, Tennis players, Football (Soccer) players do not go to bed dreaming of winning Olympic Gold....IMO
|
|
|
Post by pablo on Nov 25, 2015 18:03:55 GMT -5
It should be the dream, and maybe it is the dream. But like te IOC members, the dreams don't pay the mansions. The profesionalism is in the sport. In all the areas of the sport. For good and for bad. Just we may enjoy the good parts and hope for the remaining sportrmanships to fight the bad parts (corruption - fifa; dopping....)
|
|
|
Post by joegolferg on Nov 26, 2015 5:34:29 GMT -5
I can't say i am excited for Olympic golf.
|
|
|
Post by mcbogga on Nov 26, 2015 19:40:28 GMT -5
They should have made it a two man or even better mixed team format. That would be fun and interesting.
Olympics is about nations not individuals and as for 72 hole stroke play events this would rank somewhere together with the John Deere Classic. Maybe some nice bragging rights for whoever wins it - but it's no major championship...
|
|
|
Post by edi_vedder on Nov 26, 2015 20:44:33 GMT -5
They definitely could have been more creative about the format being used/played.
No doubt about that.
|
|
|
Post by adamhill413 on Nov 27, 2015 6:50:02 GMT -5
Golf doesn't belong in the Olympics. Nor does any professional sport for that matter There used to be a town planning event.
|
|
|
Post by ProjectM4yhem23 on Dec 1, 2015 15:10:59 GMT -5
Belong or not you can bet the Russians are bringing their hori's!!!
|
|