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  1. StillBlue

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    In my.defense I was chatting with Melb_user too.
     
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    I used to feel the very same way - until I started to play. Watching on tv was equivalent to watching paint dry - until I started to play. Unless you are at a competitive level or in a tournament, your only opponent is yourself (and the course). It taught me immeasurable amounts about concentration, balance and patience. The last one being the lesson I needed most in life.
     
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    I actually worked on the grounds crew of a public place with two courses. We'd start at 6 am and there'd already be some our seniors playing but we had a good relationship. They knew how to best let us work. We'd work with them too, if they'd hit onto a green we were mowing we'd mow everything between their ball and the cup for example. Then there were the "others". People who'd hit onto a green we were changing the pin placement for example or into a sand trap we were dragging without waiting for us to signal all clear. At best the pin would be placed in the absolute worst spot for your lie of if you'd made a particularly difficult shot onto the green we'd return your ball to you since you wouldn't want to break the rules and wait for you to remake your shot. I could go on and on about their lack of sanity, climbing a tree to get a thrown club down and then not being able to get yourself down and our signal to fire up the well pump for filling the lakes was a driver stuck in the mud, if we could see the head sticking out like the Loch Ness momster the lakes were too low.
     
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    Patience AKA Solitaire is the game that most of us need to learn. ;)

    SCNR!

    Interesting how other sports compare when it comes to competing with yourself, the course and requiring concentration, balance and patience. Riding off road bikes on Trials courses fits all of those criteria especially in slippery conditions. Mountain/Rock climbing is another and I suspect something like a Round-the-World Solo Yacht sailing would too.
     
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    Rachel Blackmore on Minella Times just became the first woman to win the Grand National.
    It's been a long time coming.

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    As far as modern sports is concerned, women’s athletic competition is going to be destroyed unless they make the decision to ban people born biological males from competing against biological females.
     
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    Australian swimmer Madeline Groves withdraws from Olympic trials, cites 'misogynistic perverts, boot lickers'
    https://www.yahoo.com/sports/aussie...gynistic-perverts-boot-lickers-200139025.html
     
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