The home of golf has some ’splainin to do.
The city of Edinburgh is considering giving up some golf courses for use in growing vegetables.
Let me repeat that. Less golf, more carrots.
Apparently there is an allotment requirement and the golf courses look like prime tomato growing space for Edinburgh’s veggie growing/golf-hating citizens (who knew there were any?).
Our faith in the Scots commitment to the game will be shaken to the core if this actually comes to pass. Fortunately, it appears some staunch local resistance is already taking shape. A local golfer had this to say in the article linked above:
“I think it’s ridiculous. Golf courses are there for the enjoyment of people like me – workers. We use them for relaxation and now they want to use them for gardens? I don’t think so. They could find land for allotments somewhere else.”
Somewhere else indeed. May we suggest a large patch of land to the southeast?
Hack is a pen name for a marketing and media relations professional who enjoys blogging as a means to pursue his passion for his favorite sport – golf. He represents the yin to his collaborator’s yang. He doesn’t so much play golf, as the game plays him to his delight and likely demise. Follow his perspective on Twitter at @
Are you an anti-frogtite? You know, like an anti-dentite for those prejudiced against dentists…
I love the French. Especially their weaponry: “These here are French rifles…never been fired, only been dropped once.”
“Are you an anti-frogtite? You know, like an anti-dentite for those prejudiced against dentists…”
If you are trying to say the British, just say so. Everyone knows the Maytag Repairmen of England and Scotland are dentists. And it’s not because they have good teeth. And why the English have horrible dental hygiene is a mystery to me. It’s not like they have good food over there or anything.
“Unsurprisingly, the golfing fraternity takes a different view.”
Keyword: Fraternity.
By the way, to my Scottish and English friends: I am kidding. Don’t take me seriously. After all, you do so rarely anyway, so why start now?
Don’t worry OMP. No one reads this drivel.
Actually we get a surprising amount of traffic from England and Scotland. I think your earlier comment was simply an intervention…meant to help them.