Note to Sports Afficianados

Golf is not a sport. Anything that involves stupid clothes, silly little carts, and whacking a ball with a stick once every half hour or so before you go relax at the club with a tall drink is not a sport.

It also does not require such florid prose or the analysis one would normally attach to the great minds of all times. Of course, sportscasters - and ego driven sports players - make it seem like football is this great mental challenge (sometimes, I'd kill to see how many major sports players could even spell "mental challenge" - but it's not.

Nor is golf.

If you want to play it, fine. Just don't pretend it's a sport or that most of the rest of the world could possibly be interested.

No offense, of course, to my neighbors who run a golf course. They're very nice neighbors even if they have a golf course.