Brad Steinthal

Acquisition Broker, Symphony Wireless

[Brad Steinthal @mbs2515]

2215

[Rick Golfs @Top100Rick]

How the golf cart destroyed American golf culture:

Disclaimer: I play in carts sometimes. This isn’t “You suck if you play in a golf cart”.

Public golf culture in the USA has a lot of problems. And imo the golf cart was what changed the game.

In the UK and Australia, golf is seen as a healthy social hobby. It’s a nature walk while hitting a golf ball and then a beer with friends afterwards.

In America, it’s mocked. A lazy man’s game. Driving around getting smashed. It’s slow and often tense. It’s like sitting in traffic.

How did the golf cart hurt the game?

Takes away the health benefits
Horrible for the turf
Makes expensive and ugly cart paths mandatory
Allows for more drinking, most don’t want to get drunk while walking
Takes away the natural high
Allows for bad golf course design

Almost all of the great private golf clubs in the USA are walking only or highly encourage walking. This isn’t a coincidence. Golf is simply a walking game. It’s better for all involved. (With exemption for the handicapped.)

As American golf evolves, thankfully we are seeing a move back to walking courses. The Park in Florida mandates walking in the mornings. Bandon Dunes and Sand Valley are walking only. And golfers are buying in!

I learned playing cart golf as an adult. Walking 18 holes seemed like a chore.

But once you start walking, you get it. And it becomes easier and easier and then becomes what you crave. The walk.

Yes in Texas or Florida summers, carts will be used. Yes at mountain and some desert courses they are needed.

But for a normal parkland course, we need to eschew the cart. It’s better for the game and for everyone who plays it.

For all the cart golfers, give it a try if your course is walkable. It’s better in all ways.

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@ThoNg676733 Very good, listen to Clarence Clemons in Badlands

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@BowTied_Golfer

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@GolfDigest Not sure how WF East & West can be 16 places apart they are both conditioned the same…also I have been playing for 50+ yrs & there might be 6 courses conditioned as well as WF West but there aren’t 6 better.

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@RealPitino

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@HistoricHub

[Ron DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis]

Florida is establishing September 11th as “9/11 Heroes’ Day” to honor those who gave their lives for our freedom.

Our middle and high school students, who were not alive during this time, will be required to have 45 minutes of instruction to learn about the attack on our country and those who gave their lives to save others.

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@TAYVAY_ Flow

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This is so cool

[Sports Business Journal @SBJ]

This transformation 🇺🇸

Tonight on #VeteransDay, the 2022 Peraton Armed Forces Classic, hosted by ESPN, will take place on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in San Diego.

(via @USNavy, @SportsCenter)

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Thank you Dr Prasad https://t.co/8qcF6SZ052

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@TheOpen @frank_nobilo There are select times in one’s life where you get to see a special individual & institution meet to display what is truly special in the world we live in. Thank you #jacknicklaus #StAndrews

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This is excellent https://t.co/vZjldpIugA

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Possibly one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

We need more dogs driving beer cans around as a society. There is no effective counterargument for this.

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Really good listen thanks #Bari https://t.co/3Ty4t1YqMD

[Jim Bianco @biancoresearch]

Not every recession is led by a 50% rise in crude.

But every 50% rise in crude has led a recession.

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@DaveShedloski @PGATOUR And that’s about the end of the discussion

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@APompliano Available on my Spotify

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I just searched my Spotify…are you kidding me…#doasisaynotasido

[Symea @SYMEA]

Beware. She can move in any direction.