Because on his best day...Tiger Woods couldn't put 6 consecutive putts this close together from 25 yards.
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Just playing with my Zipper tonight...
Heh heh....
Nice shootin Tex!!!
I bet he can!
AND ya don't need a Caddy! :bigsmyl:
Them there Zippers sure do perform. I absolutely love mine! Recently found a set of 51# LB limbs for her. Looks like you got your's dialed in right good! Nice shootin!
JL
I wonder if a fleched a golf ball would fly better?? :biglaugh: anything would help my game!!
I wonder if a Double Bull comes with a ball washer?
Because golf is too much like doing cocaine: You are always taking hits on some little white thing and chasing after it.
Golf; A beautiful walk, spoiled by a little white ball...lol
Sure would like to be able to slice an arrow around a tree like I do a golf ball when I drive one off the tee into the lake. Also my hunting boots dont look as goofy. :)
never had an interest in 'cow pasture pool' but archery....yeeee haaaa!
I know golf balls make pretty good targets.
Yeah, but he can make one every now and then... and as much as you enjoyed stackin' those arrows, you don't get paid a bazillion dollars to do it... ;)
Because we don't have to dress like Herb Tarleck or Larry from 3's Company!
Never killed a whitetail with golf ball, I did put the hurt to a goose once though and have missed a couple of times at moose at 150 yrds.
I've lost alot more golf balls than arrows too.
Never played golf, so bowhunting is better :cool:
I don't play golf but believe it is the closest sport to archery.
I like both....
Wish I could afford both, Golf is good exercise, If you carry your own Bag and walk a course....Like I used too....
You should try Archery Golf. Very fun.
I have always wanted to try archery golf..never heard of anyone doing that around here.
I'd like to build a golf course, instead of fairway bunkers I'd have fairway food plots, instead of sand traps food plot traps. Now as a member of my golf club you can take your bow while golfing. The course marshals will be instructed to keep play and hunting moving along. Anyone taking excessive time stalking a deer would be ask to pick up his hunting gear and resume his golfing. When any deer is shot all play will be suspended until the deer is recovered, all members will encouraged to assist in tracking. Anyone taking unethical shot will be penalized, maybe I'll hire me some of those Ole boys like on Deliverance, that should insure broadside shot only. I bet you some of those deep pocket guys would pay a 1000$ a round, heck if I fence it in and put some exotics I could 3000$.
I really dont understand the whole golf thing...a waste of hunting land...I honestly think alot of these people have never tried 3d archery...I mean think about it...would you rather be a golfer or an Archer?...Archer sounds so much cooler...Archery is still the sport of kings...literally
QuoteOriginally posted by Bear Heart:
I don't play golf but believe it is the closest sport to archery.
I'm an avid acrher. My father's an avid golfer. Every time he and I golf together I'm reminded how much alike the two sports rally are.
A local lady who's a former multi-time NAA champion once told me that anyone can nock an arrow, pull a string and make an arrow fly. But the real challenge, the difficulty, is being able to put it where you want every time. In that regard, anyone can swing a golf club and hit a ball. But hitting where I want? I could spend a lifetime and never figure that out. ;)
Because golf is just an over sized version of a yard game that allows those who have no athletic ability whatsoever or who have lost their competitive desire to pretend. Golf has no meaning at all.
There is no end as there is in the success or failure of a hunt. In fact, it is so silly that if you do not like your score you just buy the latest equipment to improve and pretend that it was you! (And we aren't talking compounds here.)
Plus, there has never been a greater waste of natural spaces then the "pretty" - artificial looking and chemically loaded land that is a golf course.
Send golf back to overcrowded Europe where it belongs!
Wow Mr. Witherstick, I respectfully don't believe I could disagree more with your post.
I'm way more competitive golfing than I am shooting my bow and hunting. Both require similar athletic ability - concentration for hours, ability to walk for hours, you must use your repetitive muscles exactly the same over and over, it's necessary to adjust and improvise as necessary based on the situation.
Buying the latest driver is no different than buying a new bow or trying a different arrow - it doesn't help a lick unless you practice. You only get out of it what you put into it.
I love the beauty of watching the sun rise over the ridgeline or over a well maintained course. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
That said - I always park my clubs with the onset of the fall weather.
Downwind Lefty,
Suffice it say there are those that don't get it and never will get it. That's fine.
I appreciate golf as much as archery, fishing, shooting rifles and shotguns or any other sport that takes more than a rudimentary amount of skill.
You do too. And those people who don't will never have the satisfaction of making a truly great golf shot or playing a great round with a good friend.
Mark Twain said it best "golf is a good walk spoiled"
Thought I'd share some pics of a charity archery/golf shoot held on an 18 hole golf course south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
All traditional gear, long arrows w/blunts for the fairway shots & flu-flu's w/blunts for the "putts".
We play with regular golf scorecards. The "Putt" is a short shot at a small whiffle ball on a PVC pipe.
It's a blast!
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Photos taken by Mike Teifer.
Downwind Lefty and reddogge,
While we will have to agree to disagree on this one, I did try golf for a couple of years with some friends. I broke hundred the first time out and never shot worse than a 96. My second summer while on a par 3 course I scored a whole in one.
Still, the notion that I had to follow this prescribed course as dictated by the hand of man left me with little satisfaction. No, I suppose that I will never get it when it comes to golf. Honestly, I hope that I never do.
But, what a boring place it would be if we all agreed on everything!
Toxo
Only in the south could you have an archery golf setup with sponsors on the tees.
Very cool!!!!
Otto, Yep, this has become a big annual event for a very worthy cause.
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Otto,
Sorry if I sorta "hijacked" your topic to post the info about archery golf.
As a former golf addict and current archery addict, I would comment that archery is similar to but better than golf in many ways.
Even though I loved the game, I could never get over the feeling I was wasting a lot of my time when I played golf. It's not that way for me with archery. Golf courses are beautiful places but are somewhat artifical. Being in the woods with 3D or hunting is closer to heaven.
One thing Golf and Archery have in common is that you have to be able to judge yardage....
The people!
One of our local golf courses opend a deer saeson on the course this year due to too many whitetails. There were over 30 deer taken in 2 days of hunting... Not for me but the others took advantage. One succesful hunter told me he set his DB blind up close to the 18th hole.
Golf, maybe when I get old and can't shoot or hunt. But for now its not for me. I know to many people who used to hunt and now golf.
I do both. To me they are similar in a lot of ways. The concentration it takes to make good shot in golf and in archery are very similar. When I am playing really good golf, and when I am shooting really good with the bow it is the same. I'm in a zone where nothing else bothers me, and it becomes very easy. In golf terms your in the field. I know this sounds way out there, but I actually think I see the earths energy waves on the course, and when I am shooting my bow. You can actually manipulate them to help your shot. Ok enough of my rambling. I'm addicted to both, and both feed my soul. With that said if I had to give one up it would be golf.
Archery is as much or more fun than golf and it's a lot more family oriented, too.
That said, I sure wish I could learn how to "fade" or "draw" an arrow around an obstacle!
:archer:
Nice shooting, but honestly Tiger could probably make that put in his sleep haha
i have to agree with a few others, golf courses just look fake. Maybe its just the courses i have been to. I was a lifeguard for a summer at one and i had the best view of the whole thing...i couldn't stand it. If only they would let the grass grow into a meadow!
but i do think archery is similar to golf. At lest the comradery of a 3d or target shoot.
SouthMDShooter
Yep..he can probably make it once. But he has to do it 6 times in a ROW!!!!.
Toxo...don't sweat the hijack. I think what you guys are doing is awesome. I'd love to be able to fling some arrows on the local course. I'm like you...used to play the game and then one day I woke up and couldn't bear the thought of wasting 6 hrs on a Saturday to play golf. so I gave it up cold.
Toxo,
I've always wanted to try archery golf. I hear there's a place in WI that does a shoot or two every year, but I've never been able to make it up there. It sure looks like a blast.
I wish golf courses were open year round! the deer woods would be less crowded!
DANG I'll admit, that "golfery" looks like a lot of fun!
I have shot some golf, but find that they don't taste as good as the game I've harvested with my bow...
They are exactly the same. The idea in both sports is to get a "hole in one"!
I can't afford to golf at $50 to $200 per round. But I can still sling arrows in the back yard. I have 2 arrows left and the upper right corner of my block still works.
a ball washer? Mine are always clean.
I don't golf but repect those who do . Seems like we have a little in common , one important thing I see is that both compete mainly with themselves regardless of other participants . I don't care if I shoot better than anyone else just as long as I shoot up to my standards and improve as I go along . That's why they make chocolate and vanilla , we're all different and yet the same . We've all eaten ice cream but enjoy different flavors , same with our passions , mine happens to be archery , Fred
Ever try to eat a hole in one? ;)
In archery you get to EAT what you shoot.
In archery you get to see better scenery and you get to sleep under the stars.
In archery you get to spent more time in the outdoors.
In archery you don't have to worry about some guy yelling "FOUR"...just too many blowing on bugles!
In archery I have never seen someone throw their bow into a lake!
In archery you get to make your own equipment.
In archery you can actually shoot "as straight as an arrow".
In archery it costs nearly nothing to go shoot "a-round" (once you have bought several bows, arrow making equipment, quivers, etc.!)
In archery you don't have to wear those shoes with spikes that make all sorts of noise when walking on payment and are uncomfortable.
In archery there are no water hazards, only wallows!
I like archery better than golf. The feeling of being at one with the woods and trying to get close enough to kill an animal that spends its entire existence trying to avoid that very circumstance is amazing. That being said about the only golf I play now is more enjoyable than any day shooting archery. I only play golf now when my father visits from Australia or I get home for a visit and we play one round. He is an avid golfer and it is special time with my best friend. We don't take it seriously and really enjoy ourselves.
One thing golf has that archery doesn't is the 19th hole :bigsmyl: