Do I agree that Golf is The Sport?

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My quick answer is - NO!
It is a good activity. Expensive game to play.
I would personally play it on the real golf course.
I've tried one of those small artificial carpets with hole. It is fun. For half an hour maybe.
But I can not call it The Sport. There are several issues with golf that do not meet my term "Sport".
Availibility.
It is the most expensive "sport". And that makes it unaffordable to many minors. It is not even the price of equipment. It is the field of grass. You simply cannot go out and start playing that game on an unprepaired lawn.
Especially the part which is called "green". That should be carpet quality surface.
Non-Active.
Even though there is a team of golfer, advisor, club carrier and electric cab driver, only one person is actually playing. And that person is not able to carry clubs and cover the distance from the place he hits the ball to the place it lands? How about running? The sports I play require You to sweat from physical work. Not because You are nervous.
I am not big fan of Ice Hockey, but look at complexety comparing to golf. Try to squeeze that small little black thing in the small goal guarded by huge moving dude while sliding on a hard ice at velocity of Olympic runner. And there are five more aggresive guys who are trying to knock You out and take possession from You.
Hockey is a sport for strong active men. 
You strip it to "swinging only" and You get Golf. Game for rich.

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