Taking Sides: Disc Golf versus Crazy Golf versus Proper Golf

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Which is the bestest?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:09 (twenty-three years ago)

What about mini golf?

(this is different to crazy golf, as I was trying to convince people of in the the pub the other night - there's no craziness!)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:17 (twenty-three years ago)

so no craziness would mean:

no plastic windmill

no little tunnels to go down en route to the hole

would it also mean no impossible curves?

I doubt if there is a clear distinction.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

You need a little craziness, surely?

― Tag (Tag), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

There is also Adventure Golf I believe.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

tell us about Adventure Golf, Tom.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Mini golf dispenses with all that, yes. It is just like real golf but smaller. Except the balls, holes and clubs are the same size. And the players.

I think it's also called 'pitch and putt' but don't ask me, I know fuck all about golf.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:33 (twenty-three years ago)

yea, its called pitch and putt. it is tinkle tinkle to bling bling but is still good.

the answer to the question is Rave Golf

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

is that where yr clubs are actually giant glowsticks?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Mini golf != pitch and putt. Mini golf = putting greens and is yawnsome. Crazy golf is the only golf worth bothering with. I want to play crazy golf in Weston Super Mare: a quarter of a century ago it was the best thing ever.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

What is disc golf?

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:00 (twenty-three years ago)

With frisbees?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:11 (twenty-three years ago)

wasn't/isn't there a subbuteo golf?

you stood w.this stick thing which looked like a golf club right down to the actual club bit, where there was a very wee tiny little model golfer with his own tiny club, and you made him hit the ball by twisting the handle of your "club"

unless this i dremt

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

what were we thinking?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyway - crazy golf, pitch & putt: grebt fun. Real golf: Pointless waste of time, money & parkland.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Is golf associated with cunts in every culture?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)

no:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/fl/FLPANgoofyalien.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry - I meant 'proper' golf.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:34 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.gamepile.com/images/game4902.jpg

"An interesting golf game, but one that looks better than it plays."

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

"Golf Masters"!

http://www.spieltrieb.com/images/golfmasters5.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)

pitch and putt is not mini golf.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.gamepile.com/images/game2901.jpg

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

How about Venga golf?

Crazy golf is the sport of kings.

― Tag (Tag), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:23 (twenty-three years ago)

All I can think of is Father Ted.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

When I lived in Leeds, I invented a golf game were all you need is a ball and a putter(like crazy golf) and a house. What we did is start from the top of the house and putt the ball down two flights of stairs into the kitchen and into a box with a hole cut in the side.

It was loads of fun, you had to bounce the ball off walls and decide things like if it was best to go for the shot through the stair rails and risk getting a tricky lie in the bath, or go for the safe option of putting down the stairs.

We must have played it solidly for at least two days before we started stair surfing.

― Davel, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

My sister and I used to just race each other from the top of the stairs to the front door. I think mum banned it after we started attempting to jump the whole flight in one go.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Adventure golf is like krazy golf but with more props. There's a Indiana Jones/Jungle themed one in Croydon (Hang on I'm sure I've posted about this before... Fancy a game of minigolf?)
Anyway, it IS great. There's one bit where you have to putt through a revolving tunnel and when you walk through it you are thrown totally off balance. And there's snakes that pop out at you and stuff like that.

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Disc golf is the shiznit. Simple, affordable, and hella fun. No dealing with crying little kids who lost their ball in the windmill. No froo-froo executives asking "could we play through my good lad?". Just you, your peeps, the discs, the baskets, the wind, the sun, etc.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

real golf is the game, my good lad. fewer fookin hippies.

(these all rule in one way or another. the apex, however, is golf punk)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I vaguely remember in my youth writing a golf punk tune. I believe it was titled "No Spikes in the Clubhouse (Oi Oi Oi)" or something. I also wrote a Mark E Smith golf tune called "Shotgun Start, Shotgun Chaos (Means More Money for the Halfway House Tonight)".

Anyway, watching golf on TV is the best followed by actually playing it.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I like fo' real golf quite a bit, actually, but hauling around all those clubs all day (much less just finding a set of left-handed clubs) ain't easy. Plus, proper golf can take quite a chunk out of your day, where with disc golf it's pretty quick and simple. Crazy golf is the shit though too; the only golf I'll do when I've been drinking!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

tell me where I can play disc golf. It looks fun. But prior to catching a few seconds of it on TV a week or so ago, I'd never heard of it.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Proper golf all the way! I think I have the potential to be a truly great golfest. I have never played.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

They play disc golf in a local park from time-to-time round my way. You have to throw a frisbee into a bucket.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to play crazy golf in Weston Super Mare: a quarter of a century ago it was the best thing ever

Ah, the town in which I spent my earliest years! I can't imagine how many times I played crazy golf there, but they would all have been more than a quarter of a century ago. Last time I played crazy golf, some years ago, was with some friends including Andrew L, and he injured me!

Course I want to play on: the one in the Simpsons with the gorilla and the windmill where Homer and Marge got it on.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

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