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Pool Beats Golf

Why Pocket Billiards is the Superior Game

By Matthew Sherman, About.com

Angry at the results

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As much I love golfing, I must say pool trumps it in so many ways:

  • Don’t have to bring my own ball(s)

  • Dress code is more chic

  • Fewer are allergic to felt than mowed St. Augustine grass

  • I can shoot pool when it snows or sleets and I hardly ever lose a ball in the water

  • No out-of-bounds stakes

  • One cue, not 14 different clubs

  • Open until dawn, not waking before dawn

  • Pool: $5 per hour; Golf: $5,000 per membership

  • The higher the score the better you scored

The National Sporting Goods Association ranked Golf in 2006 as the 16th most popular participatory sport (24.4 million US golfers). Pocket Billiards firmly ranked as eleventh.

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