Is golf a game or a sport?

It's a car too.

Both. Yuck. I don't like golf courses.

You see a football GAME, and football is a sport. So I think it's the same.

Both... neither... depends on how you look at it.

Golf is a waste of time.

Golf is a sport, miniature golf is a game.
Based on the fact that I don't like sports, don't like golf, do like games, and do like miniature golf.

I think it qualifies as a sport.

I've never played golf, but I would assume both. It looks like a game of relaxation.

I've never played it. I'll say both, though it's hardly either.

It's definitely a sport.
Unless you play you don't realize how challenging it really is. How tiring it really is.

How is it hardly either?

Both, I guess.

Both!

Golf is like bowling. People always ask, "How's your game?"
It becomes a professional sport when there's money to be made.
Why else would Tiger be chasing the little white ball around?

Does it require much strategic thought? Does one work up a sweat? Come on, it's a cross between chutes and ladders and playing on the swings, if not for the business meetings which happen during games. Add a golf cart, and swings are more of a sport.

Does it require strategic thought? Are you kidding me?! Obviously you've never played before. The whole game is strategic thought. You can have up to 14 clubs in your bag, and each one is used for a different yardage, and you have to know that. You have to know what kind of stance will benefit you, how hard to hit it, and how the green slopes. You need to know where the hazards are.
And do you work up a sweat? Try playing golf in anything over 75 degrees while walking 18 holes. Uh, yeah, you'll sweat..and it'll be a lot. And even if you aren't walking, if you play during the summer, you'll STILL sweat a lot.

fail.

Yeah well, I hardly sweat bicycling 25 mph hours on end in 80º weather. Unless there's some reason not to got as much distance as you can, as in a final shot, I would think there's no distance to be choosing, and only knowing what club works best for a distance. Now pool in comparison seems to involve enough strategy to be called a game. I'm pretty decent at pool.

No. You have to take in the wind and other things like that and where on the green you want the ball to land. When your scorecard says 340yds to the green..it's until the center of the green..not necessarily where the pin is. You have to know where the pin is and exactly where you want the ball to be.

For what it's worth, I don't consider archery or bowling to be sports either, and hardly qualifying as decent games. Games of skill perhaps, but I don't consider games of skill to really be sports or games either, not like chess or even water skiing.

Perhaps one might consider my getting home on a bicycle with $200 of groceries and no basket or trailer a sport or game of sorts, except that I'm not competing against anybody.

I seem to do fine at aiming cannons, sailing, skiing, mountain climbing, that sort of thing. Skateboarding somehow eludes me though.

I don't see how what you do fine at indicates whether or not golf is a challenging sport.

I was just qualifying where my view comes from; that I'm not inept at things which simply require a natural sense of physics. Someone who does aiming games as more of a body practice and repeat might consider them more of a physical sport or strategy game. These things also require refined dexterity, but refined dexterity doesn't seem to me to indicate a sport either, otherwise some forms of automotive repair and roofing would count as well. I suppose that's a poor definition though, as things like herding sheep aren't considered sports either, yet are as demanding as football in terms of spontaneous strategic movement. Hmm, I guess that's a component I felt necessary for something to be a sport, spontaneity. That's what makes sports challenging for me. I'm a genius but I think and react quite slowly, and used to get hit by balls back in HS while trying to decide what to do.

..and you're really missing the main point. When I say I enjoyed things like water skiiing instead, it's really just an invitation for you to discuss your favored or dreaded related sports, or to at least discuss comparative outlooks. My actual view on golf means nothing in the big picture. Obviously people consider it a sport. I plan to get around to it when I'm too old for things like mountain climbing or paragliding. (I'm also designing a paraglider)

There really should of been a question mark at the end of the last thing I said. I wasn't trying to argue..I was just confused.

I dunno, I really like most sports..I honestly can't think of one that I don't at least want to try. I love playing soccer. It definitely has that spontenaity that you were talking about. I've never been water skiing, but I have been wakeboarding and that was really fun. Although, I guess at the point where I was, there wasn't really any spontenaity..it was just focusing on technique. Same with snowboarding, I've tried that..and at least when I was doing it I was really focusing more on being able to make it down the mountain than doing cool jumps and stuff.
I've actually thought about paragliding and mountain climbing seems like a lot of fun too. Unfortunately, the mountains are 3 1/2-4 hours away..Not that that's ridiculously far..just at this point in time I can't really go out there. I am closer to the beach however and I really enjoy doing beach things. Running on the sand should be considered a sport!
I'm really looking into starting riding my mountain bike..like cross country..but all of the trails are kind of far away..there's one in this city..but I have no idea how to transport my bike.

Wakeboarding is both more recent and more ancient than my water-skiing experience. Eleanor Roosevelt used to water board.
I'd say it wasn't sponataneous, just jumping across wakes and such, but it actually usually was.

There was the time behind a sailing schooner, worried about sharks while not getting enough accelleration.
The time in the bahamas reeling in cord to stay out of the water during a sharp u-turn, so I didn't have to find if the giant (like 12-14 feet) ray the gus were chasing was a sting-ray or manta ray.

The time I touched my head to the back of the ski, and all went blank as we flew into a dust storm I didn't see coming while looking backwards.

Several times with my keel dragging in the sand because the boat could get by in shallower water than my ski.

and interestingly enough, all water is a different experience. High lakes are hard and glassy, the ocean is really mushy, especially in the bahamas, and the colorado river is just perfect in my opinion.

I've gone bike camping before. The beach here has great cliffs for learning rapelling. The busses here carry bikes up front in racks, but I always prefer to just bike the whole way.

Glad to hear it wasn't an argument, not that I didn't sort of deserve one.

Yeah, we're cool

I've never been in a river. I've been to the beach a million times..and the lake, only once. I really liked the lake though..it was warm..and calm..Of course it was July, so the ocean was warm by then too..and I like the waves..So I don't know where I'm going haha.

Rivers were definitely my favorite. I liked floating down them in innertubes with a boda bag of wine too. It was like 115º out there.

Oh wow! The only river-esque experience like that that I've had was the lazy river at the water park haha

The category shows bias!!

It fits the definition of both..like a football game, baseball game...etc, both sports and games