Brickbat: Tin Cup

Chuck Winship, general manager of Florida's Tarpon Springs Golf Course, has had to crack down on those who play there. They can't make any bets on league play at the course. A former employee reported that members of some of the leagues that play there were wagering on the results, and cops are now investigating Winship for possible violations of state laws against keeping a gambling house and game promotion in connection with the sale of consumer products or services.

Comments

[nailzer]

The government has to get its cut or no one plays.

[Swiss Servator, alles klar?]

"I bet you a hundred bucks you slice it into the woods."

"Gambling is illegal at Bushwood, sir, and I never slice. [slices ball] Damn!"

"Okay you can owe me."

"I owe you nothing!"

[Atanarjuat]

Technical breakdown of SpaceX's Mars plans

[Snark Plissken]

We *are* playing strict rules of golf.

[Suthenboy]

I am not a golfer so I am not certain, but isn't gambling the whole point of golf for most people?

[UnCivilServant]

The point of golf was to show that A: you had time to waste chasing after a little white ball, and B: could afford the dues where you played. While there were courses for plebs, it was still stratified.

[Doctor Whom]

C. Networking with other people who have time to waste chasing after a little white ball and who can afford the dues.

[Snark Plissken]

I thought it was drinking beer. That was the whole point the three or four times I played it.

[Radioactive]

1 beer per stroke...the one who makes it to the third hole wins...golf for men.

[Radioactive]

if your drive doesn't make it to the womens (yes I said woemens) tee, you have to play the hole with your male organ exposed (dick out)...golf for men

[Radioactive]

or womens...whatever

[UnCivilServant]

I am glad I never golfed at the same courses you did. It really ruins an outing to see drunk people exposing themselves and blocking use of the fairway.

[Zombie Jimbo]

Nah, the exposed drunks are normally in the woods or the creek. Just play through.

[UnCivilServant]

Normally, yes, but Radioactive's drunks were trying to play a round.

[Radioactive]

just another hazard..hahahahahah

[croaker]

The police department doesn't have a facebook page but the city manager does. Just sayin'

[Rich]

Chuck Winship, general manager of Florida's Tarpon Springs Golf Course, has had to crack down on those who play there. They can't make any bets on league play at the course.

"Chuck Winship", indeed.

[Spoonman.]

What pisses me off about golf is all the municipal courses. Allentown, Pennsylvania has a municipal course, which is the last thing that place needs to spend money on, and worse, it's in one of those goofy skin-tags cities have, nearly surrounded by another municipality, so it isn't even convenient to Allentown's residents.

[sarcasmic]

I'm with George Carlin.

[juris imprudent]

Listen, the police aren't really cracking down on their gambling until they run a SWAT raid on the 19th hole.

[UnCivilServant]

Isn't that usually the name of the bar in the clubhouse?

[John]

Only the worst degenerate gamblers can tolerate playing golf. Without it feeding a gambling addiction, golf is without question the must frustrating and unpleasant game ever created. So banning gambling on golf courses is effectively banning golf.

[Matrix]

When I was at Ft. Sill, there were all these retired military guys who would keep asking me if I wanted to play golf with them after work. My response was, "I have no one that I want to get away from badly enough that I'm willing to chase a little while ball around when it's 100 degrees outside all while carrying a heavy bag."

Not married... no kids...

Plus, I hate golf! I don't want to watch it on TV, and I certainly don't want to play it.

[Old Man With Candy]

Australian Rules Golf is the best. Nothing else is worth playing.

[KB Check Release]

Haters all over this one. Perhaps I'm just smug as a 2 handicap.

Got 25 rounds in last year, looking for 30 this year.

I find in particularly interesting that among my age range (I'm 27), PGA Tour talent is really on the upswing while enthusiastic amateurs are seemingly very rare.

I guess Tiger Woods perhaps only galvanized the top athletic talent to play golf, while the economy and popularity of other sports like football disincentivized people from picking the game up.