Name your top 5 sports/events to watch on TV

[Assassin]

Football

Golf

Motorcycle racing

World Combat League

Dwarf throwing

[Darkon]

Anyone who thinks playing four rounds of golf in four days across a championship course against the best hundred and forty players in the world isn't physically challenging obviously plays golf like they debate.

what does it matter who you play against in golf it's not like they are pacing you from behind, you just walk around. and an average round of 18 holes of golf is about 8km including distance between holes, it's not exactly an ironman you are doing in the span of a few hours it takes to get around.

it is mentally challenging without a doubt due to the nature of the competion, but is is in no way a physically challenging sport. No more than playing bowling is physically challenging.

[Darkon]

If you read my defination, it says sport requires skill and/or a level of fitness - so a sport could require skill....it could require a level of fitness or it could require a bit of both

so the other end of the skill vs fitness arguement could be say the 100m......Loads of fitness yeah, but as per Darkon's arguement of "golf is just like walking through a forest" - running is just running as fast as you can, some people just happen to be faster than others and their is no skill* involved - but it's still a sport - so darts may have the least required fitness levels of sport, but it has a very high skill level arguably higher than running.


* before some pedantic ******* comes in - yes i know running is very scientific and therefore 'skillful' - i was just using it as random example to show why darkon's claim that golf is not a sport is just absurd you could argue any sport is just a 'game' if you wanted to.

I read your def. and it said and/or as you stress out, which means it could just require skill, which many boardgames does - there are many other games than just the roll of a dice board games that require no luck, let's take chess, go, kalaha and scrabble for some of the more famous ones that require heeps os skill and therefore apparently are sports to your definition.

and to me it's not absurd not calling golf a sport, the argument from golfers always end up at "it's mentally challenging" and "it requires skill" and the worst of them all clinging to straws that it's hard walking around 8km a day swining a club. To me it's no more a sport than bowling, snooker and dart.

Coming back to my definition and what defined the real olympics, it would require a show or compitition of strenght, speed or stamina and none are applicable to golf.

[Gibbo]

Football
MMA
Tennis
Boxing
Darts(if that can be classed, if not Rugby League)

[ChesterDave]

Sports?
Football
Cricket
Darts
Rugby U

Events?
Ashes
T20 Finals Day
Olympics

[CJ]

will muddled be able to narrow his viewing list down to a top 5?

[spud_gun]

Surprised the number of people who're listing Boxing given that for years the doom mongers have long predicted the demise of the sport.

[Hollowman]

what does it matter who you play against in golf it's not like they are pacing you from behind, you just walk around. and an average round of 18 holes of golf is about 8km including distance between holes, it's not exactly an ironman you are doing in the span of a few hours it takes to get around.

Of course the level of competition matters. If I was playing Rory McIroy he could probably stroll about lobbing the ball around with casual 8 iron strokes and whip me silly. If he's playing a world class field he has to drive the ball long and straight on every hole, which is physically as well as mentally draining.

it is mentally challenging without a doubt due to the nature of the competion, but is is in no way a physically challenging sport. No more than playing bowling is physically challenging.

By the same token, running 100m isn't physically challenging. But doing it in less than ten seconds is.

Walking around a gold course windmilling isn't physically challenging. Doing it four times in as many days in less than 270 strokes is.

If there is no physical challenge to golf, then why are men significantly better at it than women, when the only advantage they have over them is physical?

[Darkon]

Of course the level of competition matters. If I was playing Rory McIroy he could probably stroll about lobbing the ball around with casual 8 iron strokes and whip me silly. If he's playing a world class field he has to drive the ball long and straight on every hole, which is physically as well as mentally draining.





By the same token, running 100m isn't physically challenging. But doing it in less than ten seconds is.

Walking around a gold course windmilling isn't physically challenging. Doing it four times in as many days in less than 270 strokes is.

If there is no physical challenge to golf, then why are men significantly better at it than women, when the only advantage they have over them is physical?

that is why I don't really want to use physically challenging as it is to vague and I name the three things I consider that at least one needs to be a competition of ansd spped is the essential of 100m.

and yes men are generally physically stronger but that does not make golf a test of strenght speed or stamina.

[jono]

Mine would be:

Football
Rugby League
Cricket
Australian Rules
Tennis

[Norbs]

Football
Cricket
Golf
Tennis
F1

Spose

[Neil Young]

Of course the level of competition matters. If I was playing Rory McIroy he could probably stroll about lobbing the ball around with casual 8 iron strokes and whip me silly. If he's playing a world class field he has to drive the ball long and straight on every hole, which is physically as well as mentally draining.





By the same token, running 100m isn't physically challenging. But doing it in less than ten seconds is.

Walking around a gold course windmilling isn't physically challenging. Doing it four times in as many days in less than 270 strokes is.

If there is no physical challenge to golf, then why are men significantly better at it than women, when the only advantage they have over them is physical?

Of course. It's the draining physical challenge that makes men significantly better at darts too. And chess.

[CJ]

Of course. It's the draining physical challenge that makes men significantly better at darts too. And chess.

i think it may be that women have better things to do than play darts or chess mainly

like absolutely anything

[Neil Young]

Golf, chess, darts...it's all the same.

Except darts can be quite interesting to watch once every few years.

[Muddled]

will muddled be able to narrow his viewing list down to a top 5?

No.