This is why golf is the dumbest game on the planet...

As if golf wasn't lame enough check out this yahoo sports news story.  After a terrible shot Michelle Wie let her golf club rest on the ground.  Apparently this is called grounding and it's illegal because it can help you test the firmness of the ground or break sand up around your ball.

Now I've never had any respect for golf and this story doesn't help.  Watch the video and you'll see after Wie's craptacular shot her club comes to rest by her foot.  Really?  The ref or whatever the hell he's called probably had to nitpick because frankly he didn't have shit to do otherwise.  What a stupid sport.  Ever watched a real sport?  Like hockey or baseball, basketball?  I was at a hockey game on St. Patties day and watched a player penalized for beating the crap out of a member of the opposing team.  Now that's a reason to be penalized!  Resting your golf club on the ground, you got to be kidding me.

In case you hadn't figured it out I absolutely despise golf.  You have a bunch of well dressed pretend athletes who despite being some of the best in the world at what they do can't take a shot without the crowd being quiet and have someone else carry their clubs around.  They work up a sweat by walking.  I remember how my grandparents stayed healthy - they walked too.  I wonder if they'd be good at golf.

What's the saddest part of this story is the penalty cost Wie $90,000.  Now it's not sad she didn't make as much money.  What's really sad is that for there to be so much money in pro golf, that many people have to be watching it on TV.  And the fact there are so many people at home wasting all that time just sitting around watching some prepped up loser hit around a little white ball into a tiny hole in the middle of a field of grass instead of doing something that's actually fun or productive is damn near tragic.

The only good thing that has ever come from golf is Happy Gilmore .  Period.

I remain,

Damon