Golf Courses Shut During Lockdown.......

[Smowball]

COVID latest rules clearly state you can still exercise in a public place as long as you maintain social distancing - I was in a cab yesterday and in fact went past a huge park where loads of people were jogging on their own, exercising etc - so why are golf courses shut?? You couldn’t get more open/ outside and socially distanced. I don’t get it.

[Ken4155]

"The old hands learn the course......." That's where my money would go, 'horses for courses' :-))

[New Judge]

//If golfing was allowed thered be complaints that it was cos it was an upper class game so why is darts or pool not allowed.//

Golf is not an “upper class” game (whatever that might be). It is played by people across the social spectrum. The argument might also fail because golf is played in a vast open space and pool and darts are played in fairly small enclosed ones.

//Its only 2 more weeks anyway. Hardly an inconvenience when people cant go to gyms or visit loved ones.//

It’s nearer three weeks actually – nineteen days. But ALL these restrictions are an inconvenience to those they affect. You keep saying that these are nothing too much to fret over. But they are. They are restricting people’s normal activities in all sorts of ways and because you may not see them as important to many they are.

//The can still go for a walk for four hour's so not alls lost.//

Indeed. That’s why people pay hefty sums to buy golf equipment and pay club membership or green fees. How stupid of them when they can just go for a walk for an hour.

//Course fees and clubs are to expensive for the underprivalidged.//

Most activities are expensive for the underprivileged. That’s why they are underprivileged. But it doesn’t make those activities “upper class.”

There is a wider issue here. The legislation banning golf, as demonstrated here, is absurd. But it’s easy meat. Far easier to ban everything than to frame the legislation to make sensible exceptions so as to engender a little more respect. But when you have absurd legislation it breeds contempt for it. And that’s what’s gradually happening. Because of these absurdities (which are many and various) people are contemptuous of the law and the lawmakers. It will lead to more and more defiance and the whole point of shutting down the economy (which is a dubious strategy at best) will be lost. And whilst people describe golf as an “upper class game” and are fully supportive of it being banned, that contempt will only grow.

[Ellipsis]

The gates of my golf course are padlocked shut. If I do want a four hour walk, it's not going to be there.

[iluvmargie]

Very well said NJ, as usual.

[10ClarionSt]

NJ has been the main voice of reason throughout this pandemic. Other users on this site don't like to hear the accuracy of his replies because they've been panicked by Bojo the Clown.

[iluvmargie]

^ Yes, several of them have posted on here!!