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posted by Woods on Tuesday April 22 2014, @05:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-pizza-was-harmed dept.

The NYT reports that golf courses across the country are experimenting with 15 inch golf holes the size of pizzas to stop people from quitting the game amid reports that golf has lost five million players in the last decade with 20 percent of the existing 25 million golfers apt to quit in the next few years. "We've got to stop scaring people away from golf by telling them that there is only one way to play the game and it includes these specific guidelines," says Ted Bishop, president of the PGA of America. "We've got to offer more forms of golf for people to try. We have to do something to get them into the fold, and then maybe they'll have this idea it's supposed to be fun."

A 15-inch-hole event was held at the Reynolds Plantation resort last week featuring top professional golfers Sergio Garcia and Justin Rose, the defending United States Open champion. "A 15-inch hole could help junior golfers, beginning golfers and older golfers score better, play faster and like golf more," says Garcia, who shot a six-under-par 30 for nine holes in the exhibition. Another alternative is foot golf, in which players kick a soccer ball from the tee to an oversize hole, counting their kicks. Still it is no surprise that not everyone agrees with the burgeoning alternative movement to make golf more user-friendly. "I don't want to rig the game and cheapen it," says Curtis Strange, a two-time United States Open champion and an analyst for ESPN. "I don't like any of that stuff. And it's not going to happen either. It's all talk."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Tuesday April 22 2014, @08:32PM

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday April 22 2014, @08:32PM (#34579)

    Exactly. There is an extremely strong parallel between Golf and IT.

    Both are extremely fucking boring and tedious sometimes with a smattering of curse words and equipment smashed to the ground. At the end of the day, we are both drinking heavily from the experience. Ohhh, and a whole slew of products that promise to make it easier, but were designed by sociopathic morons, don't work, and you get ridiculed for buying *that* club.

    Their problem is that Golf is fucking boring as hell. It's entirely unwatchable unless you are either a golfer yourself, or stoned out of your mind. I believe George Carlin said it was like "watching flys fuck on a wall".

    You know what isn't boring? Miniature golf.

    It may well be the redneck version of Golf, but by golly, if I could be out right now as a grown adult, I would be trying to take some woman miniature golfing. The balls are colored, there are engineered obstacles, and you're never more than 200ft from beer or a urinal.

    I want televised Miniature Golf tournaments where some slob from accounting is playing against a 6 year old girl for the Grand Masters and $1 million in prize money. Slob loses his cool when the ball comes out the wrong hole to guarantee him par, and the girl wins the whole thing destroying him. I would watch the shit out of that. I dare say, I might even pay for it.

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  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday April 22 2014, @08:41PM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 22 2014, @08:41PM (#34582)
    I'd also say you could connect the topic to UI or even game design.
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