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  1. Terry Nutkins

    Terry Nutkins Well-Known Member

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    Snooker and Golf are very difficult to master. You can look amazing on certain days and terrible the next.

    Mountaineering is incredibly hard but not sure I'd call it a hard 'sport'.
     
    Terry Nutkins, Aug 9, 2023
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    I’ve hit unbelievable snooker shots but remain overall pretty awful at the game. Highest break 16…

    I’m ok at pool but I’d probably be beaten by a good half of the people in any pub at any time.

    Never played golf beyond pitch and putt and crazy golf - but I once holed a putt on the nine hole pitch and putt in Keswick from all of forty feet, from off the edge of the green. It was the standout shot of the probably 100+ I hit to complete the course…

    I’ll add darts. I’ve hit 180, I’ve got triple figure checkouts. Rarely, but I have.

    And yet I usually take fifteen darts or more to finish a bloody 101 with my son! Most of them at double one usually…
     
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    Mud wrestling.
     
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    Hard mud. :confused::) be like wrestling on concrete. :)
     
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    Gary Lineker had a well publicised accident whilst playing sport, but I dont think it was hard, more fluid probably.
     
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    Me and Anne have just started playing Pickle Ball. It's a cross between tennis, table tennis and badminton - it's the future.
     
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    If you want to improve at snooker, play billiards. It's a great game and really helps you to learn how to control the cue ball. My dad told me that back in the 40s, nobody played snooker but where he grew up in Thurnscoe there was a billiard hall with 20 tables and you had to book to get one.
     
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    Bog snorkeling.
     
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    I've just thrown the towel in with golf. I've played and practised for the best part of 40 years and only managed to be a 6 handicapper at best. Like someone once said it spoils a good walk.
     
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    I thought that was tennis.
     
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    Mountaineering is incredibly hard but not sure I'd call it a hard 'sport'.[/QUOTE]

    You certainly wouldn't want to be good one day and 5hit the next at that.
     
    Stephen Dawson, Aug 9, 2023
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    Yeah tell me.about it.
     
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    Your knob'll freeze off.
     
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    I understand after a terrible day mountaineering you can feel quite flat!
     
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    You're blowing out your arse.
     
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    You played off 6??? That is pretty decent!
     
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    I thought same. I think he needs encouragement to continue.
     
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    I was just getting half decent when I jacked cricket. That was 13 years ago. I was an opening Batsmen but my single figure scores were becoming regular double figure scores then I hit 20, 21 and 19 in consecutive innings. Sounds bugger all and probably is but I regret it.
     
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