I think this is a healthy little debate. I don't think this is a knock-out, drag-out like described in the other thread.
All I know is this:
In pool, I always feel as though there's a chance (even if it's a snowball's chance in hell... there's always a prayer) of winning a match almost no matter how I play.
In golf, there's nothing like playing in a nassau with a 2-down auto-bet while you're playing like shit and then spray your drive about 3 yards short of the largest weeping willow you've ever seen, with no line of sight to anywhere near where you need to go (while your opponent bash-fcks his drive 300 up the gut).
The feeling is so helpless, so desolate-like. Part of you wants to throw your clubs into the pond and storm off the course and another part of you is hoping your opponent chunks his shot and throws his back out.
In pool, your opponent can run a bunch of balls and dog the key ball and lose. In golf, each player has to get to the hole and hole-out. It's not like your opponent hits a green in regulation, misses a put and you tap it in for your birdie.
I've had countless rounds where I've made a bet on the tee and blow-up the first hole by hitting OB twice in a row. Golf scores build progressively. Meaning, if you hit OB (when there's pressure), it's now twice as hard (mentally / physically) to hit your next shot after you drop the ball. That means, when bad shit happens... it comes in FORCE.
Straight pool is the only pool game that's remotely close to golf, because each player must reach 100 or 150 (same as each player must finish the hole/round). One player can't make 149 balls, miss, and have the other guy tap the ball in and win.