Most skill based sport?

[Midway]

What makes you consider it a sport rather than a game that requires a physical skill?

Sport is an activity concept involving rules, like football, sailing, chess, curling, even virtual dogfighting for fun.  A game is an event with a winner and a loser of a sport.  At least that's how I think of them.

Note the International Olympic Committe recognizes chess and curling as sports, neither of which require significant physical activity.  Although the tension of a game of either might make you sweat.  

[Ten60]

“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”

Actually a Mark Twain original

[icepac]

Hitting a 90+ mph fastball is about the hardest thing to do in sports

Easy compared to throwing a 90+mph fastball.

[VonMessa]

Golf.

Why is this wonderfully maddening, royal and ancient game still played in the 21st century? What is it about this exhilaratingly taunting game that can make grown men cry, mold men into boys, make preachers swear and atheists pray? It is, without a doubt, the most infuriatingly challenging, temper-bendingly complex, sublimely enjoyable sport on earth. Simply put, it’s the best damn game ever invented.

No one disputes that golf is the most difficult of all games to master. But how can this be, since as the golfer prepares to hit his shot, neither the golf ball nor his target is moving? No one ever tackles the golfer. No one ever tries to catch or deflect the ball, and no one ever hits the ball back at him. And yet, making the flight of a golf ball behave consistently is harder than walking on water. Lifetimes are spent trying to change low, screaming, banana slices into high, gentle draws.

Golfers routinely shell out obscene amounts of cash for the latest sets of irons or newest, high-tech drivers without blinking an eye. And they gladly fork over $4 each for the latest, soon to be lost, revolutionary new golf balls. Oh, and don’t forget the books, videos, magazines, training gadgets and gimmicks.

Let’s face it. Golfers are suckers. If all the distance and accuracy promised by all the products they’ve bought over the years actually made it out to the course with them, every par 4 would be a drive and a putt and the average golfer would be playing on Sunday afternoons with Phil Michelson, Bubba Watson and Dustin Johnson. But sadly, the reality is no matter how much money the average golfer spends, he can’t buy a birdie and certainly can’t break 80.

Some days the golf swing is so easy, even effortless. And other days it is nowhere to be found. Sometimes a golfer gets so confused and confounded by his so-called swing that he doesn’t know whether to scratch his watch or wind his ass. But, therein lies the unrelenting, magnetic pull of golf.

It’s often said after a bad bounce or lipped out putt, “Man, that’s not fair.” But nowhere in the rules of golf does it say that golf will be fair. The rules do say, however, that every stroke shall be counted, even the ones that miss the ball. There is no such thing as a bad bounce or a good bounce in golf; it is simply the “rub of the green.” Golf makes no accommodation for double faults or foul balls. It’s just the player against the course, and when crunch time comes, there are no co-pilots, pinch hitters or time outs. In baseball, a 450-foot shot over the wall definitely counts more than a drag bunt single down the first base line. But in golf, a three-foot putt counts the same as a 300-yard drive, thank you very much.

True golfers are totally and utterly addicted to the game and freely admit it. Every mirror or window passed by is a chance to check a position at the top of the swing. Every pretty day is an excuse to sneak away from work a little early for a quick nine holes. Golfers live for daylight saving time.

There is nothing in the world more pitiful than watching a golfer with the yips. And, when a golfer’s swing goes bad, it can get ugly in a hurry. The post play description of a bad round sounds like a square dance call at the Tennessee State Fair: “Hooked it to the left and sliced it to the right. Hit it thin, hit it fat, boy what a sight!”

But when a golfer does manage to find his swing, even for just one glorious, TV shot, the world is perfect again and his hope to master the game is resurrected. He resolves to keep that swing for all eternity, usually only to lose it on the very next hole.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcnFbCCgTo4&feature=related

[Butcher]

Apparently fishing is the hardest sport for bill dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1lBoEeUiGk

[katanaso]

Easy compared to throwing a 90+mph fastball.

Hmm.  I'd have to disagree, as somebody that used to be able to do both.

[Midway]

Hmm.  I'd have to disagree, as somebody that used to be able to do both.

 

[icepac]

I still can hit a 90mph fast ball but I sure can't throw one anymore.

[JimmyC]

Its obvious....

Tiddly Winks...


or deathmatch drinking   

[JunkyII]

Been playing golf 13 years, I have a 5 handicap, have hit the ball 330 yards off the tee, and sunk shots from 120 yards....I still hit it in the woods every once in a while. annoyingly hard

Lacrosse is the hardest 2 feet running sport....not many breaks. Tired Hard

Gymnastics very hard

Hockey hard

Baseball is very easy to pick up, and just like all sports hard to go pro.

 

[Zoney]

I've participated and done fairly well in alot of sports, including motorsports.  Raced cars on road.  Raced motorcycles off and on road.  The one sport that used everything all the time was motorcycle roadracing.  Compared to automobile racing it was 10 times as hard.  The difference in the 2 being on a bike, you aren't strapped in to a seat, holding you in place so you can control the vehicle.  You are hanging on to the bars, turning the bike, right hand doing the gas and the front brake.  Left hand hanging on turning and doing the clutch.  One foot on the pegs and shifting, the other rear brakes.  You don't really sit down, you squeeze with your knees, transitioning from one side of the bike to the other as you hang off around corners.  Even the movement of your head changes things, sometimes it seems just moving your eyeballs effects the bike in a turn.  One mistake and your down, no cage to protect you.  The likelyhood of you sliding and then coming out of it wheels spinning throwing dirt up behind you as you re-enter the track, slim to none.

One of the greatest roadracers of our time, Valentino Rossi from Italy, tested with Ferrari in a Formula 1 car and had lap times that would have qualified him to enter a race with them.  He did it to get a taste of what he might like to try in the future.  I do not recall the reverse ever happening, re: A Formula 1 champion hopping on a bike and riding it fast enough to qualify.

Just my .02 !

[Rob52240]

the TT.  Absolutely the TT.
I can't think of another annual sporting event with a death toll above 250.

http://youtu.be/v0pLZyLXJKg?hd=1&t=3m3s

[Zoney]

the TT.  Absolutely the TT.
I can't think of another annual sporting event with a death toll above 250.

http://youtu.be/v0pLZyLXJKg?hd=1&t=3m3s

And I would agree with that.  20 years ago I had a full sponsorship to race there.  All expenses paid, $2,000 dollar "show up" mone, and whatever I might earn with a good position.

I was sent a couple of videos to study to help with memorizing the track which takes years to really learn.  Watched them both , once.  Sent them back with a note: "No Thankyou".

It's the place that kills the very best.  RIP Joey Dunlop, and all the other champions and racers that lost everything for what they loved.

[Krupinski]

RTHolmes, do they throw off-speed/Breaking balls in Cricket? I don't think so...

I'd like to see Semp track a fly ball.. 

[JunkyII]

RTHolmes, do they throw off-speed/Breaking balls in Cricket? I don't think so...

I'd like to see Semp track a fly ball.. 

Can a baseball player hit a tiny white ball 155 yards turning it almost 90 degrees in the air and land said ball to 9 feet from a designated target?

A golfer can http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOROLxwKI_0&feature=related