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If a guy takes up a miserable game just to get away from his wife, he deserves a miserable life. I never understood the social appeal about golf, the same way I don’t understand the social appeal of fantasy sports (see Knocked Up). And I mean no offense to anyone who enjoys either, unless I have to hear about your team’s fantastic sleeper players all day long. Then we’ve got a problem.
I just don’t know how we’ve gotten to this point, where we have to take up things we don’t really enjoy just to escape from other things we don’t really enjoy. When my friends were talking about taking up golf because that’s what their clients do, and business decisions are made on the golf course, I wanted to punch them in the head. This wasn’t “finally, I have the opportunity to learn and enjoy golf!”, this was “oh God, I’m not going to be able to move up at my job, unless I learn golf”.
