dquarasr said:

I am not a golfer. I tried it many years ago and decided it wasn’t for me.

I am watching The Masters. I have previously thought that golf is inherently harder and crueler than pool. And pool can be pretty darned cruel: the rattle leaving the $ ball in the pocket; the roll that lands 1/4” too long or too short hooking yourself; the scratch after hitting a ball on the table you didn’t account for; the missed straight-in long shot where the CB is 4’ from the OB and OB in turn 4’ from the pocket. All these can be avoided or fixed by experience, and better focus.

But playing pool I’ve never missed a shot by fractions of an inch and had the OB run down a hill dozens of yards away. I’ve never had an OB land in sand or water because I misjudged a shot maybe 1% short of the power I needed, or behind a tree. I’ve never had to calculate how much the CB or OB will curve because the slate is uphill the first half of a shot and downhill the second half (well, maybe at some halls, lol.)

Pool is tough and frustrating enough for me. Golf seems much more so.

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Bob Jewett said:

The most irritating to me was the guy on YouTube who said I said you should not use any physics knowledge, just go with the order of the contacts you can actually see. He said that after I objected to:

[BeginGarbage] BCA/WPA referee guidelines (which are different from the rulebook available to players) specify that the referee must see the foul itself in these situations. Watching for after-the-fact "evidence", such as the direction the cue ball travels after contact, is not the correct way to referee. You must actually SEE the wrong ball be hit first, to call it a foul shot .And as we all know, it's very difficult to see, especially when the shot is played with speed. Benefit of the doubt goes to the shooter. [EndGarbage] ​

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