I'm a bottom-liner sorta fella. The bottom line about "quitters" is this: People quit because they REALLY REALLY WANT to do better REALLY REALLY fast. What better, or shall we say EASIER, way of being better than by just quitting and saving only our good cards? None.
People have noticed I have a "thing" about this as well oh sure ...you betcha. However, if you ask me if I've ever quit due to various reasons and not come back to THAT particular game....the answer would be an honest 'yes'. But, most often due to technical 'jaggedy meter' type issues that got me at plus 10 or worse before the 8th green. That notwithstanding, please allow me to vent a bit and jabber on and on about the subject at the risk of being called once again as I have by a fellow player the other night...."a chatty Cathy":
I think the subject of quitting has to be defined by the type of quitting being done....and many have already proposed the multi-faceted divisions of those types...ie., jobs, sleep, internet problems, phone ringing, or whatever ...etc...blah.
Mr. Faterson obviously is expressing his very strong opinion words pertaining to my first paragraph.....which is unequivocally defining the lazy, cheating, cowardly trespasser of all things honest about the "pure" game of golf. To be able to possess 'holiness walking about" must be the goal here....correct? And you know what? He's right! In it's purest sense...that is indeed the superior goal of an honest game. Right? And ESPECIALLY so, when somebody just disappears without the gentlemanly or lady-like attitude one SHOULD have. What's wrong with just saying, "I'm going to leave now, I'm leaving because I ________ (fill in the blank) , thank you, buhBye" ...hmmm?
You know, there are other golf games out there that one can take as many "mulligans" as you want...or even control the ball "in flight toward the hole". And trust me, the sales figures of those games are monstrous. Why? Because it's EASY to eventually get good enough at finding "cheats" to play it to "GODLIKE" rating. This game has it's way that is easy to cut corners too. It's just that this game (when played with a smooth meter on a great computer with a fast connection and all the updated stuff) is a whole heck of a lot more realistic and thereby more FUN than any of those other ones......quitters or not. Am I right about it guys and dolls? So, my final bottom line to the subject is play it however you want, with whatever equipment you can afford, and at whatever levels you can attain with whomever you may play it with whenever you wish. And please feel free to gripe about "cheaters" and praise the truly "skillful" at the same time. Because the truth about how good somebody really is will come out in the big tournaments anyhow....right? = ) ~gDub