The Beijing Winter Olympics have been 5 days old.
The ice and snow event at the doorstep of the home has become the top event of brushing up the whole network.
Are you also excited about Gu Ailing's domineering gold grab?
(And don't forget to look back at your own baby)
Or do you even have to queue up all night to buy an ice pier?
(Even if you are frozen into an ice pier)
Or is he secretly praying for whether Ha Sang-hyun can "triple crown"?
(Of course, our Liu Xinyu also let the Yan dogs lick the screen)
However, in the process of watching the game, golfers may have a little bit of "loneliness". After all, although golf is an Olympic sport, it belongs only to the Summer Olympic Games and has nothing to do with the Winter Olympics.
But this does not prevent high-level fans from opening their minds and successfully rubbing the hot spots of the Winter Olympics in various ways. For example, Alison Perkins, a female golf coach from England, successfully "transformed" the clubs and small white balls into curling, biathlon, and alpine skiing:
But is the Winter Olympics really completely irrelevant to golf?
High-profile fans can also form a delegation
If you check the official website of the International Olympic Committee, you will find that many of the athletes participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics have filled in the "golf" in the first column in their hobbies. For example, among the 50 athletes who have won gold medals so far (as of the evening of February 9), there are Winter Olympic hardware winner Natalie Geisenberger (women's singles sled gold medal), Canadian Max Parrot (Snowboarding Men's Slope Skills Gold Medal) who pushed Su Yiming to win, Austrian veteran Beat Feuz (Men's Alpine Skiing Men's Downhill Gold Medal), Japan's Ryoyuki Kobayashi (gold medal in the men's individual standard ski jump) and Johannes Ludwig (gold medal in the men's single bobsleigh) who won the first gold medal for Germany in the Winter Olympics and many other "gold medal" golfers.
Geisenberg, who won 5 gold medals at the 3-time Winter Olympics, has competed in several golf tournaments
When it comes to "golf families", this Winter Olympics is even more numerous, including even members of the Chinese delegation - the defender of the Chinese women's ice hockey team nicknamed "Wang Bomb", the Canadian-born Chinese celebrity Wang Yuting, and his cousin Peter Campbell, who won the 2018 Beijing Championship at Yanqi Lake, and is the winner of the PGA TOUR China! Takari Onitsuka, the younger sister of Japanese women's snowboarder Onitsuka Masa, is a professional player on the Women's Japan Tour.
In the eyes of many sports fans, among the 15 sports events of the Winter Olympics, the most similar to golf is curling. "Both projects have a lot in common, take a long time, and the pace is relatively slow, meaning that every dozen, skill and thinking can not be less." Eve Muirhead, the female captain of the British curling team who served as the flag bearer of the British delegation at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics and a 68-shot golf course, said, "Reading the line especially on the green has been of great help to my mental judgment and strategic thinking in curling. ”
Canadian curling queen Jennifer Jones is also a low-handicap high fan
Perhaps because of the similarities between the two sports, the list of curling players at the Beijing Winter Olympics has become a "hard-hit area" for golfers - for example, Mullhead's men's team mate, British young man Ross Whyte was once a member of the Scottish U18 golf team, almost reaching 5. Jennifer Jones, who competes at the age of 47 and has the reputation of the greatest "curling queen" in Canadian history, is not only a single handicap player, with the exclusive endorsement of Cobra ball dealers, but also a frequent guest of the country's major charity golf tournaments. And her men's teammate Brad Gushue was once Canada's 18th amateur golfer...
LPGA stars have shone in the Winter Olympics
However, the closest professional golf to the Winter Olympics should be Pyeongchang four years ago. At the opening ceremony, Park Se-ri, the first person in South Korean women's golf, served as one of the 8 sports stars who escorted the national flag to the entrance. Park In-fai, the 2016 Rio Olympic golf gold medalist, was one of the last torchbearers to bring the Olympic flame to the Pyeongchang Stadium.
Park in-law relayed the torch at the opening ceremony of the last Winter Olympics
For the first time in history (both summer and winter), two professional golfers have performed at the opening ceremony of an Olympic Games. In addition, LPGA star Tian Renzhi and women's Day Tour bonus King Lee Baomei also participated in the previous Olympic Torch Relay, and the status and influence of golf in South Korea can be seen.
Also four years ago in Pyeongchang, The Chinese golf star Feng Shanshan, who was ranked first in the women's world at the time, was invited to observe the Winter Olympics together with Yao Ming and other Chinese sports representatives as guests, and also appeared in the final of the short track speed skating men's 1500 meters.
"Even though I played at the Rio Olympics two years ago, I still think the Trip to the Winter Olympics was a really great experience because the two Olympics are completely different." A Chinese sister said at the time.
Buick Feng Shanshan AJGA Invitational, Feng Shanshan and The Chinese youngster will cheer for the Winter Olympics
At the AJGA Invitational Tournament held in Los Angeles a week ago, Feng Shanshan also worked with Yin Xiaowen and more than a dozen other Chinese players to pose as skiers with golf clubs and cheer for the Winter Olympics.
In fact, golf is also a winter sport
The Winter Olympics are a winter sports event held on the ice and snow, but I am afraid that many people do not know that golf, in fact, was also a winter sport - its history is even hundreds of years before the Winter Olympics itself.
As early as the 14th century, golf was already popular in Scotland, France and Northern Europe. In the Netherlands, golf was originally even played as a year-round sport. That is, in the winter, it becomes Snow Golf. To this day, many documents and paintings have been preserved, recording the scene of European aristocrats and upper classes at that time, swinging and hitting the ball in the snow.
Golf on the snow depicted by Dutch painters in the 14th century
The inventor of modern snow golf is even related to a Nobel Prize winner in literature. Rudyard Kipling, a famous British author and poet and author of the children's story The Jungle Book, is an avid golf enthusiast. At the end of the 19th century, during his travel writing in the United States, in order to alleviate his addiction during the long cold winter, he took out persimmon clubs, painted golf balls red, and designed a temporary course in a vacant lot - thus making snow golf popular in North America.
Some snow golfers have even combined the words Snow (snow) and Golf (golf) to give the sport an unofficially beautiful name: SNOLF!
However, snow golf faces many challenges in promoting it. First, low temperatures can cause muscle tension, cramps, and strains that are common problems for snow golfers. The extra layers of clothing will also affect the golfer's swing, as well as the image of this gentleman's sport. Even today, for many golfers who are new to snow golf, heavy clothing is still difficult to adapt.
Playing golf on a snowy day is not generally difficult
Second, the cold also makes the golf ball hard and compressed, shortening the batting distance by 20%. Clubs are also affected by low temperatures. Cold shaft body means instability, not only greatly affecting the distance, but the carbon shaft will even automatically break at extreme low temperatures!
If a player is used to playing in a tropical climate, they will find that snow golf is very different from the type of golf they are usually accustomed to. Imagine that when your ball is caught in more than ten centimeters of snow, let alone save the ball, the difficulty of finding the ball is no less than that of the long grass area. There is also the so-called "green", pushing poles on the snow in the "white expanse is really clean", not only the line and strength, but also the need to rack their brains to adapt, the speed of the green? Even more so.
Just as the Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympics are held in two different seasons, most of the world's most famous golf courses that we are familiar with are not ideal for a snow golf game. However, in high-latitude countries such as Finland, Austria, Switzerland, and Argentina, snow golf is a popular sport that is routinely practiced every winter.
Snow golf even boasts an annual "World Championship" – the World Ice Golf Championship has been held in Uummannaq, a small island on greenland near the Arctic since 1997, home to a 9-hole golf course built on a mobile ice shelf and the northernmost course in the world. The Ice Golf World Championships last for two days, and players with a handicap of less than 36 from all over the world can sign up, the tournament uses red golf, and ski goggles must be worn to prevent snow blindness...
The World Ice Golf Championships are serious
However, due to global warming, the ice shelves (that is, the stadium itself) can be shifted at any time, so whether the game can go smoothly that year is completely up to fate. Nevertheless, at the beginning of each year, nearly 100 fans gather in Greenland for this unique winter golf event.
Since golf is also a winter sport with a history of nearly 800 years, can snow golf one day become a competition in the Winter Olympics? Maybe it's just a beautiful dream. But isn't the Olympic event itself a stage to realize dreams?
Curlers who play golf on weekdays
Believe in the dreams of all golfers, as sung in "Together to the Future" -
Heaven and earth are white piece by piece
The more you love the future, the more you look forward to it
Together for a shared future
Let's go to the future together
We all have love
Come and leave all the doors open
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