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The strategy remains the same for every hole, every time, ie, the smallest number of strokes. You don't 'hold back' strategically at any point.
Even something seemingly as simple as winning an 800m race depends on timing, deception and interaction with that of your rivals.
In golf none of the competitors are playing against each other at all, they're playing against the course designer who probably isn't actually present and may even be dead.
A sport must be measurement based (not based on judges scores) and involve more effort than the equivalent time spent walking. Golf fails on the second point.
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We've mentioned that Golf is one. But there's also synchronised swimming, darts, figure skating, skiing, luge, skeleton, bobsleigh, javelin, discus, shot putt, high jump, long jump, triple jump, pole vault, gymnastics, diving, canoeing, weightlifting, show jumping. There's also cycling time trialling on road, but concede there is the possibility of direct head to head between competitors since they technically share the same course at the same time.
For those non-interactive 'individual' sports, I suggest there's very little 'strategy' going on. It's all about you and what you're capable of. You could get a personal best score or time and not win. You could keep on improving that score/time over months and years yet still never win a competition. That improvement comes by sheer effort and mind-over-matter, not strategy. You might have a plan of which races to run, but it's not 'strategy'.
'Strategy' surely only comes into play where there's a genuinely interactive element to the competition - e.g rugby match, marathon race, cycling road race (or even a board game like Monopoly or Settlers of Catan) - and becomes more pertinent the more factors there are (number of competitors & their strengths/weaknesses, timescales, weather, obstacles, handicaps). I suggest there is far more strategy, say, to the Tour de France, than a simple football game, but it's still there. Unlike golf, which could be considered an adult version of whack-a-mole but with a small white ball. Where's the 'strategy' in that?
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Two trespassers get caught by the ghillies and asked to explain what they are doing on the laird's estate. They claim to have got carried away, playing a game that they have just invented - which they then have to describe in some detail.
The remainder of the Connolly routine probably overlaps a great deal with the Robin Williams one. I do not know whether Williams or Connolly came up with the idea first.
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The issue of strategy requires expanding. Most golf players know nothing about course strategy. They stand on the tee box and hit the ball as far as possible, with no eye for an easier second shot or a thought on how to play the hole as the designer designed it. For example, the green might be sloped from back to front and from right to left (when viewed from the tee). And two green side bunkers protecting or defining the green, one front right, the other side left. The obvious approach is from slightly left where the player can bump and run the ball to the green, between the bunkers, knowing the slope of the green will stop the ball. A shot to that green from the right means/requires a high pitch over the bunker to an away sloping green with the possibility of ending up in the far bunker. Most players hit driver with a right shaped curl on the ball flight (slice or fade depending on severity of the curl). Irons hit the ball straighter so an iron off the tee slightly left of centre of the fairway puts you in the best position to end up on the green with your next shot. Not as macho as using the expensive driver but better for scoring. Using your brains, employing course strategy to get the ball into the hole in the fewest number of shots.
Using length can be strategic but only if the ball ends up at the required area of the fairway. Not in the rough or amongst the trees. Or lost or out of bounds!
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In match play, you play against your fellow player. It does not matter how many shots you take at each hole, "all" you need to do is take one shot less than him at one hole and match his score for every other hole, then you win the match. Great fun but rarely used.
I agree with your assertion that chess is strategic. As is football, marathon running etc etc
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