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Berreez

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Once Again bowling is being slammed in a national magazine (Golf Digest, April 2005)
« on: March 08, 2005, 01:58:37 AM »
I received my monthly Golf Digest last night a was shocked (not surprised) by an article that is published in it. On page 86 written by David Owen was an article named “Getting in the gutter during golf’s off season.”

Owen tells how he and some of his golfing buddies decided to go to the local bowling centre and try their hand at the game during the off season. He talked about ordering a plastic ball but then order another one with “more spin” and how they even made shoes for both right and left-handed people.

Then came the put-downs. He talked about when one walks into the centre how they feel like athletes compared to the locals. How the regulars gave them dirty looks for having a good time. Then he slammed the bowlers by comparing theirs body shapes to the pins (both have low centers of gravity). He slammed the food and how everything smelled like smoke. There were other put-downs but I’ll let you all read the article.

I read on this site how bowling doesn’t get the respect it deserves and how much of a “sport” this is. As you will clearly see when you read the article there are a lot of others out there that don’t think the same way. He they are putting their views out to millions of readers.

Oh, Owen also gave his e-mail address for any comments:

owen@golfdigest.com

Let’s all drop him a line.

Robert


Edited on 3/8/2005 11:30 AM
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Re: Once Again bowling is being slammed in a national magazine (Golf Digest, April 2005)
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2005, 11:09:54 AM »
Honestly i can say that the sterotypes are fitting, every center i walk into is the same... alot of middle aged men oogling anything female, making lude comments, doing a combination of smoking and pounding down beers.

On an average night at a center during leauge, you can spot the "good" bowlers *not house hacks*

Its sad but most centers live up to that rep.

PS bowling alley food is AWESOME!
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Re: Once Again bowling is being slammed in a national magazine (Golf Digest, April 2005)
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2005, 11:20:13 AM »
Checkerd pants, bright shirts, kickers... golf is not such a pretty sport either.
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Re: Once Again bowling is being slammed in a national magazine (Golf Digest, April 2005)
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2005, 11:23:13 AM »
I haven't read the article yet, but based on your synopsis, it sounds pretty accurate.

I don't think that description fits a lot of the people on this site, but you have to remember who Joe Bowler is.
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Re: Once Again bowling is being slammed in a national magazine (Golf Digest, April 2005)
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2005, 11:26:59 AM »
A TRUE[/] bowler wouldn't receive Golf Digest.
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Re: Once Again bowling is being slammed in a national magazine (Golf Digest, April 2005)
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2005, 11:27:39 AM »
quote:
I haven't read the article yet, but based on your synopsis, it sounds pretty accurate.

I don't think that description fits a lot of the people on this site, but you have to remember who Joe Bowler is.


Deffinetly, that is the point i was trying to convey.  BR = not joe bowler, were Ãœber L33T!
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Re: Once Again bowling is being slammed in a national magazine (Golf Digest, April 2005)
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2005, 11:29:12 AM »
Funny to me when I was playing golf in my HS years the regulars at the course would ridicule the guys and gals who were just hacking it around instead of being local pros like some of the others thought they were....I can almost guarantee you that more beer is put down on the golf course than in a bowling center.....and BTW I know for a FACT that there are dirty old men in both sports
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Re: Once Again bowling is being slammed in a national magazine (Golf Digest, April 2005)
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2005, 11:29:20 AM »
it's from Happy Gilmore...

The comment made about remembering who "Joe Bowler" is can be quite fitting, but does anyone know who "Joe Golfer" is?  Probably someone who is between 30 and 50 years old, generally a businessman, can be horribly out of shape but doesn't necessarily have to be.  

Just remember, golfers can be so lazy that you can have carts to ride around in!  I'll never see bowlers become so lazy that they'll have a cart take them up to the foul line so they can throw a shot.  That'll be the day...
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Re: Once Again bowling is being slammed in a national magazine (Golf Digest, April 2005)
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2005, 11:33:54 AM »
They don’t really look at themselves either.

Sit at a clubhouse on a municipal course and look at the body types teeing off.

Many have to ride a cart because they couldn’t walk one hole let alone 18. Besides they have to have the beer cooler handy.

Listen to the language when the miss a 3 foot putt, it would make Tiger blush.

They spit sunflower seeds on the green, the smoke big stinky cigars and leave ashes on the green. Granted they are outside and the effect is not as strong but when they go in the clubhouse, whew!!!

They take divots with practice swings, don’t fix ball marks, don’t rake the bunkers, and few really follow the rules of golf the letter.
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Re: Once Again bowling is being slammed in a national magazine (Golf Digest, April 2005)
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2005, 11:41:49 AM »
I used to walk 54 holes everyday for 2 months in the dead of summer on the 9 hole course I grew up playing on....like to see those bashing bowling do that.....instead they ride their $4000 golf carts with AC and CD players....I was an A-player in our Club Scrambles when I was 15 years old....now I carry a 182 average and it used to be 189 before a two year layoff and its going up more everyweek.....so to those golfers who think they are the stuff I could beat your butt in both sports still now....
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Re: Once Again bowling is being slammed in a national magazine (Golf Digest, April 2005)
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2005, 12:22:06 PM »
For those that think GOLF is a gentlemen's sport, who knows how the word GOLF came to be?  Basically, GOLF is an acronym; What for?



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Berreez

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Re: Once Again bowling is being slammed in a national magazine (Golf Digest, April 2005)
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2005, 12:26:46 PM »
Another

You trying to hi-jack my post?

But I couldn't resist:

G: gentlemen
O: only
L: ladies
F: forbidden
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Re: Once Again bowling is being slammed in a national magazine (Golf Digest, April 2005)
« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2005, 12:31:05 PM »
No hijack here.  
just bored.  

I'm glad someone knew.  


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Berreez

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Re: Once Again bowling is being slammed in a national magazine (Golf Digest, April 2005)
« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2005, 12:31:44 PM »
Here is my e-mail to Mr. Owen

Mr. Owen

   I take offense to the article you wrote in Golf Digest. I couldn't tell if this was tongue-n-cheek or you were actually serious about the comments you made.

   Bowling has been stereotyped for years and you sir helped with that by writing this article. Not ALL bowling centre's are filled with overweight, smoking, drinking slops! Ever hear of the PBA tour or the millions of people that belong to organized leagues?

   Golf Digest is read by millions of people who now have a dimmer view of bowling. I participate and truly love both sports but you made bowlers sound almost like a second class citizen.

   You article was written in poor taste.

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Re: Once Again bowling is being slammed in a national magazine (Golf Digest, April 2005)
« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2005, 12:37:58 PM »
Wish I could read the article believe me I would email a reply but without first hand information it wouldn't be right. I have never seriously played golf but have played a few scrambles with "golfers" for work and there are as many idiots on the golf course as in an bowling center I have ever been in. Nothing like the high and mighty passing judgement on something he knows nothing about. He doesn't rate high enough to hold my "bowling" balls.

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