Golf Tips and Golf News

In Saturday’s Evening News, the subject of declining golf club members was opened up to questions. One reader wrote the following; “Why pay £580 to play golf in the wind and rain,” he queried, “when the Playstation and the Wii get the job done in the comfort of your own home?"

My response to this question might be obvious, but captain of Lothianburn golf club in Edinburgh, David McBain, put it well himself; "The comment indicates perfectly the national trend towards obesity and early ill-health through lack of exercise” he claimed, following up by pointing out “You can't get...the wonderful wellbeing it brings, on a computer”.

He is, of course, perfectly correct. It is a total mistake to even associate sitting in front of the TV twitching a game controller to the sport of golf. Sure, the video game may have the word ‘golf’ in the title and the little figure on the screen may be making golf-movements, but this is not what golf is. Golf is, essentially, the sport of accurately hitting a ball around a course – there is nothing even vaguely similar involved when playing golf games on a computer. You may as well compare cooking a meal to flicking through the cookery channels on Sky!