[PhilipFreneau]

>> Golf is great and I play it, but it is full of the most pretentious jerks I've ever met. You just have to laugh at the idiots who can barely play their way out of a sack yet have the most expensive equipment, talk the biggest game and curse the loudest when they screw up. The club house/country club atmosphere is insufferable.

Hmmmm... it is very civilized in my area. I have played 53 rounds on 25 different courses in the past year, and I have met only three people I thought were obnoxious.

[engrpat]

I took up golf about 3 years ago (retired) and some of the nicest people I have ever met have been on the course sharing a cart. I have a lot to learn and have made many mistakes and not one person ever had anything nasty or mean to say. If anything they went out of their way to be helpful. It is about the only thing I am not good at that I say I truely enjoy.