How Hard is Golfing?

My roommate and I had an argument a couple days ago on if golf should be considered a sport. He thought that it should not be because he thought it was an easy sport, even though he has never played before. I thought that it is easily the toughest or at least in the top 3 of the toughest sports to be played. There are many reasons why golf should be considered one of the hardest sports to play.

The first reason I told my roommate was that you first have to hit the ball straight if you want to be at least somewhat successful. It is a lot harder than what it sounds like. The whole body has to be perfectly aligned in order to hit the ball straight. If its not, then either it goes way left or way right, or it goes straight if you are lucky.

The second reason why golf is such a hard sport is because once you drive the ball off the tee, you have to be able to hit the ball off of the ground. You have to hit the ball just right because if you don't, you will hit grass and dirt farther than the ball. Along with that, you have to know how far you can hit each club. After that, you have to be able to hit the ball in an area that is called the green. The green varies in size, but it still takes practice in order to land the ball on the green close to the pin.

The final reason why golf is one of the hardest sports to play is because you have to be able to putt a ball that has a diameter of 1.68 inches into a hole that has a diameter of 4.25 inches. To make it even more diffucult, the greens are not flat. Some have hills, some are slower than others, and most of them slat one way or another.

This is my fourth year golfing now, and I still can improve in all areas of golfing. Even though I golf at least once a week during the summer, I average around a 44 or 45 through 9 holes. Golfing could be the hardest sport to play, but their are arguments about how all other sports are just as difficult.