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Yaya
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SeoulNate
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I lol'ed.
Best part about that article: Space is listed at number 20, S.Korea is 42. The times online is a joke. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:15 pm Post subject: Re: NY Times ranks Korea one of the 45 places to go in '12 |
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Korea? For golf??...........that's so off the mark. Korean golf courses are awful.
The 'grass' is brown for 6 months of the year. The ground is hard and virtually unplayable during the Winter. In the Summer it can become waterlogged or just too hot to play. Most courses are so tight that any slice or hook will invariably put you into an adjoining fairway. Half the players there have no idea of golfing etiquette.........
....then they ask you to pay 4-6 times more than courses in western countries??? 
An absolute joke. |
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Yaya
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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I watch golf when I'm out of sleeping pills.  |
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toby99
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Location: Dong-Incheon-by-the-sea, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Easily one of the dumbest things I've seen in the NY Times, and that's saying quite a bit. |
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radcon
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Do these fancy new Korean golf country clubs written about in the article even let foreigners tee off? I bet many of them don't. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 10:55 pm Post subject: Re: NY Times ranks Korea one of the 45 places to go in '12 |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Most courses are so tight that any slice or hook will invariably put you into an adjoining fairway. Half the players there have no idea of golfing etiquette......... |
It can get dangerous. Several times I've had stray balls land very close to where I was standing without any warning whatsoever. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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Hey NYT, don't you mean Screen golf, not Korean golf courses?
One is a poor facsimile of the real thing, the other is a computer game.
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everything-is-everything
Joined: 06 Jun 2011
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I've heard that on Korean golf courses you're not allowed to drive your own cart!
You need to hire someone to do that. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| everything-is-everything wrote: |
I've heard that on Korean golf courses you're not allowed to drive your own cart!
You need to hire someone to do that. |
Considering how upper middle-class ajumma drive, that's a good thing!! |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 2:30 am Post subject: Re: NY Times ranks Korea one of the 45 places to go in '12 |
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| eamo wrote: |
Korea? For golf??...........that's so off the mark. Korean golf courses are awful.
The 'grass' is brown for 6 months of the year. The ground is hard and virtually unplayable during the Winter. In the Summer it can become waterlogged or just too hot to play. Most courses are so tight that any slice or hook will invariably put you into an adjoining fairway. Half the players there have no idea of golfing etiquette.........
....then they ask you to pay 4-6 times more than courses in western countries???
An absolute joke. |
Many Koreans, even the rich ones, opt to golf in Southeast Asia like the Phils and Thailand. So yes, I question this list so much. |
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Mix1
Joined: 08 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:01 am Post subject: Re: NY Times ranks Korea one of the 45 places to go in '12 |
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| Julius wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
| Most courses are so tight that any slice or hook will invariably put you into an adjoining fairway. Half the players there have no idea of golfing etiquette......... |
It can get dangerous. Several times I've had stray balls land very close to where I was standing without any warning whatsoever. |
My friend's dad visited here. He nearly got hit a few times too, so he finally hit it back at them. Apparently it never happened again.
He had some interesting things to say about this place. He liked the food but called the trip an "anti-vacation". |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:11 am Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
Hey NYT, don't you mean Screen golf, not Korean golf courses?
One is a poor facsimile of the real thing, the other is a computer game. |
Win. |
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Mix1
Joined: 08 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:13 am Post subject: Re: NY Times ranks Korea one of the 45 places to go in '12 |
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| Yaya wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
Korea? For golf??...........that's so off the mark. Korean golf courses are awful.
The 'grass' is brown for 6 months of the year. The ground is hard and virtually unplayable during the Winter. In the Summer it can become waterlogged or just too hot to play. Most courses are so tight that any slice or hook will invariably put you into an adjoining fairway. Half the players there have no idea of golfing etiquette.........
....then they ask you to pay 4-6 times more than courses in western countries???
An absolute joke. |
Many Koreans, even the rich ones, opt to golf in Southeast Asia like the Phils and Thailand. So yes, I question this list so much. |
I thought that was mostly for the cheap hole in ones...off the course. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 4:37 am Post subject: Re: NY Times ranks Korea one of the 45 places to go in '12 |
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| Mix1 wrote: |
| I thought that was mostly for the cheap hole in ones...off the course. |
There are only about 10,000 golfers in Vietnam yet there are almost 100 golf courses, according to an article I read in the times awhile back. Those exist mostly for Japanese and Korean tourists. Not that the extracurricular activities you mention don't occur, but there is golfing as well. |
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