F-350? Maybe I mentioned pool because I was at a local tournament near here yesterday.
I don't know why you mentioned pool, and I never questioned why you did? Are we agreeing or agrguing?? Maybe you misinterpreted my seconding pool and adding 2 other actvities that aren't viewed by many as tough, bowling and cards. I grew up between the pool hall and bowling alley..I know how mentally and physically draining playing those games can be....especially when you can't pay what you wagererd if you lose (not me)
I watch those guys on TV play poker for huge bucks for days on end and that has to wear you out as well. I guess most things doe at a super high level would do the same.
I chatted with a guy born in 1921 who was also there. Not once did he mouth off suggesting that the players were wimps because of their chosen game. He was too classy for that. He even autographed his recently published book for me....
I don't know what that has to do with what I wrote about COMMENTATORS (not the competitiors) making golfing after an injury seem like entering the Roman Coliseum at less than 100% strength. As much as I love him, John Daly has more majors than 99% of the pro golfers who have ever, or will ever live, and he was no physical specimen back then either. He demonstarted that you can beat the best and be pretty poorly conditioned. On the flip side Daly also demonstrates that if you go too far, your conditioning will bite you in the ass. As in everything else, there are limits. Lefty isn't exactly ready win any 10Ks either and he has been maybe the 2nd best golfer of the Tiger era. That being said, I don't consider Tiger or any of the other pros "wimps", it's just when compared to to other endeavors golf is relatively low impact. If you asked the players they would say the same. Some seem to be trying to say golf is as physically demanding as the other major sports, and I don't agree. I don't think Hale Irwin (maybe the best athlete to play golf) can still be an all-conference defensive back for Colorado, but he certainly can walk a course playing competitive golf. Again... I said the COMMENTATORS made it out to be superhuman for Tiger to play, NOT TIGER or the PLAYERS.
Everybody who is a regular at this pool hall knows who the toughest guy there is, the second this man walks in. He's proven it.
Maybe you'd like to buy a copy? I'd like to see it on the non-fiction best sellers list.
"Easy Company Soldier"
by Sgt. Don Malarkey with Bob Welch
Although I bet it is a great book it would probably only reaffirm my opinion that the MEDIA treatment of a golfer playing through a rehabbing injury is hardly heroic in the grand scale of things. For the record, that was the basis of my original post. Apparently I struck a nerve with some golfers and Tiger fans. Maybe I'm wrong, but IMO... compared to many of the sports/activities golf seemed pretty mild.
I guess until I announce that golfing w/ injury is like scaling Everest or K2 w/ a busted ankle, or riding a bull w/ a broken leg I'll be villified..oh well.