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Trad climber
Calgary
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Alpine climbers should take a #1 iron with them when lightening storms are a possibility because not even God can hit a 1 iron
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Brought to you by Yosemite Village Golf Shop, WBraun, Professional.
There was a nine-holer at the Ahwahnee years back.
They need a pitch and putt and driving range in the Valley: Teepee Tees.
"Go hit a rock."
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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They need a pitch and putt and driving range in the Valley: Teepee Tees.
"Go hit a rock."
They had one, that was reachable in one from the Jungle at the top of the Arches. I find them complementary (but not complimentary). The main differences:
Golf involves speed and timing more than strength and endurance; climbing requires strength and endurance more than speed;
Golf requires you to control your anger more than your fear (depending on how much is riding on that last putt); Climbing requires that you control your fear more than your anger;
Both are activities based on self-restraint and honesty;
Both have issues of speed of play and playing through on popular courses/routes;
Golf equipment costs less than climbing gear, but golf itself costs much more per round than the cost per climb.
But climbers haven't figured out how to make wagers part of the climbing game.
John
P.S.
Climbing uses three-letter words: pin, nut, cam
Golf uses four-letter words: golf, putt, club, ball, ##@!
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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golfng reqiures no SACCCC!!!!!!
Depends on what units you're playing for and how many presses you've got going on the 18th green.
John
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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both involve mainly white people,
ever see a black dude climbing the Matterhorn at Disneyland?
that ain't gonna happen,
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mucci
Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
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I wish I climbed as well as I golf.
2 generations of golf professionals in my family.
I used to be a 4 handicap.
Now I play once a year and shoot around the low 80's.
I wonder what a scratch golfer is in relation to hard climbing,
Every one of the guys shooting par, at least around the clubs I frequented were in top physical shape.
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Prod
Trad climber
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What do you mean by complimentary? Do you mean that being proficient at one will help you be better at the other? Or do you mean they are similar activities?
Both require concentration as well as coordination, but that is about as far as I would go with it.
Russ, 250 yds with an 8 iron? Not even if you bladed it on a dried out fairway with a slight down hill runout.
Prod.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Russ, 250 yds with an 8 iron? Not even if you bladed it on a dried out fairway with a slight down hill runout
Easy. Ever hear of a cart path?
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Every one of the guys shooting par, at least around the clubs I frequented were in top physical shape.
That's an interesting observation but you were probably wrong or, if you were right, it was just coincidence.
Take a look at the physiques of plenty of pro golfers--they're all great "athletes" but at least some definition, but "top phsical shape"? Nahhh
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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You can really screw you back up Golfing & that will Fvk with your climbing.
In the mid 70's I watched Reggie Jackson at a driving range I was at
The ball was still rising @ the 300 marker.
Everyone put their clubs down & watched till he left.
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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Golf and climbing are equally difficult and equally frustrating. When climbing, I'd like a beer cart girl to come by once in a while.
Curt
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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I will add one cool tip...
Golf shirts make GREAT climbing shirts.
They all have collars (which are great for gear slings), come in crazy colors, are designed to stretch as you flex, and are all high-tech'ed out to wick moisture and block sun. Find 'em cheap at Marshalls, you can get $75 dollar shirts for ~20 bucks.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Word k man.
My puma golf shirt is my sending shirt.
Edit
From Ross Dress For Less
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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When is the SuperTopo Golf Tourney?
Who's in? Palm Springs is right down the road. Hit the links in the AM and then the V0----- boulders in the afternoon and then shitalk all night.
I think Fogerty is some sort of golf dude and can get us great rates...
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sandstone conglomerate
climber
sharon conglomerate central
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What a silly-ass "sport"..who decides what piece of land gets raped for such a banal pursuit?
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Deekaid
climber
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you can draw comparisons between anything if you stretch it far enough.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Carlin>
I’ve got just the place for low-cost housing. I have solved this problem. I know where we can build housing for the homeless: golf courses! It’s perfect! Just what we need. Plenty of good land, in nice neighborhoods, land that is currently being wasted on a meaningless, mindless activity engaged in primarily by white, well-to-do male businessmen who use the game to get together to make deals to carve this country up a little finer amongst themselves. I am getting tired, really getting tired, of these golfing c*#ks@ckers in their green pants, and their yellow pants, and their orange pants, and their precious little hats and their cute little golf carts! It is time to reclaim the golf courses from the wealthy and turn them over to the homeless! Golfing is a arrogant, elitist game which takes up entirely too much room in this country. Too much room’ in this country! It is an arrogant game on its very design alone, just the design of the game speaks of arrogance. Think of how big a golf course is – the ball is that f*#king big! What do these pin-headed pricks need with all that land?! There are over seventeen thousand golf courses in America, they average over one hundred and fifty acres a piece – that’s three million plus acres, four thousand, eight hundred and twenty square miles – you could build two Rhode Islands and a Delaware for the homeless on the land currently being wasted on this meaningless, mindless, arrogant, elitist, racist, there’s another thing; the only blacks you’ll find at country clubs are carrying trays. And a boring game. A boring game for boring people. You ever watch golf on television? It’s like watching flies f*#k! And a mindless game, mindless. Think of the intellect it must take, to draw pleasure from this activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick and then, walking after it! And then, hitting it again! I say pick it up as#@&%e, you’re lucky you found the f*#king thing! Put it in your pocket and go home, you’re a winner! You’ve found it! No chance of that happening. Dork-o in the plaid knickers is going to hit it again and walk some more. Let these rich c*#ks@ckers play miniature golf! Let them f*#k with a windmill for an hour and a half or so! See if there’s any real skill among these people. Now I know there are some people who play golf who don’t consider themselves rich. F*#K ‘EM! And shame on them for engaging in an arrogant, elitist passtime.
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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But I like my arrogant elitist pastime...
Curt
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