Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.
In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.
Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.
Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
Golf is a better game played downhill.
Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.
Golf will grow so long as it's fun.
Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.