to you, which is better between golf and chess?

I just came here to see exactly how many actually said golf. I counted zero.

Golf has its upside as well. There's no 19th hole in chess to make you feel better about losing

I think asking which is harder is a good question also. I would even venture that comparing tennis to them is a worthwhile venture. I was faster than greased lightning and incredibly athletic when I was 20 years younger. Yet, the subtleties of raquet control gave me fits. Golf clubs are even less forgiving in my opinion.

Since the question was asked on chess.com, I would more or less expect that to be the case. Though I guess people could be fans of both and just perfer golf more.

Rick56 wrote:

I just came here to see exactly how many actually said golf. I counted zero.

Well, then, I'll be the first to say that I prefer golf over chess any day there isn't snow on the ground.

I used to be able to beat my brother at golf, then he started watching the tournaments on TV whilst trying to copy the swing of the pros. He managed to do it and is now far better at golf than I am!

I dont have a personal subjective preference between golf and chess, but of course, objectively speaking, golf is better.

One of my best friends is a professional golfer and his brother is expert strength at chess.

They've each made money at both from running tournaments and winning tournaments.

There's money to be made with both, but I like chess better by a long shot.

I like the comments on the chess vs sex thread better. That said, chess vs golf is more of a fair contest.

Bur-oak seems to be only concerned with the viewing of chess and golf with his comments,and yes watching both can be tiresome, but I thought the topic was about playing chess or golf.The playing of a game is the enjoyable part regardless of how bad a spectacle it is to onlookers.

Astronomer999 has obviously never played golf.Don't knock the most popular active sport in the world until youv'e tried it.

TheBigDecline is unfortunate to live in germany if it is an expensive hobby there. In Britain, and Scotland in particular,you can buy second hand sets of clubs for just a few pounds. Anyone can play all year for under about £500. To say that once you have a chess set and board is a cheap alternative is forgetting about the benefits of healthy exercise from golf.

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Where did you get that claim? The original author please

Just kicking a football around would have to be a bigger sport and more popular. Golf is a rich world thing, for morons who have to have a specially built park to take a walk in

They're both not team sports, they both don't require athletic body types, they're both fairly quiet games, they both require significant time before a move, but you can play chess at night..

..so chess is better.

my chess table has 4 beer holders...

Yes, football (soccer) is much more popular.

The rest of your post was written by a moron.

There have been too many rules imposed on Chess. And Chess WC players demands are too hard to be fulfilled.

These and other factors have made Chess not enjoyable and boring.

They should be more creative like inventing Beach Chess Championship like Beach Volleyball, etc. Or Grand Slams Championship, etc. Or Chess Cake Championships (Chess made from cakes), etc.

Once creativity is taken out from an activity, it's not enjoyable anymore.

But due to my purse, I still prefer Chess over Golf.

The rules of golf (The Decisions Book, as it's called) is over 500 pages.

nameno1had wrote:

I think asking which is harder is a good question also. I would even venture that comparing tennis to them is a worthwhile venture. I was faster than greased lightning and incredibly athletic when I was 20 years younger. Yet, the subtleties of raquet control gave me fits. Golf clubs are even less forgiving in my opinion.

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Completely true. Half a centimetre off on the downswing and you could be hunting for your ball for 20 minutes.

With regards to people saying golf is a rich man's sport, I don't agree. It depends what level you wish to play at or which club you choose to join. Personally, I am a member at a middle of the road one. Nice course, nice clubhouse. That costs around £600 for the year. Of course, there are a few really prestigious clubs that cost much more but, on the other side of the coin, there are public courses as well where memberships can be as little as £150, or £5 a round.

The same goes for clubs. In total, mine were about £1000-ish. Some people will spend that on a Driver alone. On the other hand, as someone else said, you could pick up a whole second hand set for about £30 in Scot-Ads.

The same with anything else, it's relative to what you can afford. You get chess sets worth thousands of pounds, not everyone buys them though. By the same logic you could call chess a rich man's game.