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>>>>>What golf is to you is what snooker/pool is to me... a big waste of time.
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>>>>At least they can find their balls in billiards - and the fashions are better ;-S
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>>>I wasn't interested in this thread until I realized it was you that started it.
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>>I don't know whether to take that kindly or not :-)
>>What's my having started it got to do with its interesting you?
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>I know little about the game, tho I've played pool several times in my life.
>Your name gave this thread a face.
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>>>I assume you play snookers and are pretty handy at it?
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>>No, in fact i don't even know where/if in my town there is a snooker hall. I used to play, back in the day, but I was never any better than the next Joe. I also used to play pool, but I can't abide the "winner-stays-on" mentality of most places, where the ne'er-do-well regular user gets free goes at other peop;le's expense. As I said, I like the TV world champ tournament and it just occured to me while watching that there was no US snooker connection.
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>>In fact, the "safety shot" duels between the players often enthrall me more than their potting (wouldn't get THAT in golf! :-)
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>"safe shot"... is that like a "laying up" in golf?

I don't know what laying up is. As the object of golf is to get the ball into the hole in the fewest strokes I doubt if it's the same concept. The idea is, if you can't get a decent shot at pocketing the ball, you leave the shot with no prospective object balls easy to pot, preferably with the cue ball hard up against the cushion, or better still, having snookered you oponent in so doing. Sometimes these "duels" can go on for ages. One match the other night had them spend some 20 mins over the yellow ball (once all the reds are pocketed the other colours have to be potted in sequence).
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>what enthralls me is hitting a tiny ball into a small hole (4.25 inches in diameter) some 450 yards away in four shots or less.
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>But I don't wnat this thread to become snookers vs. golf. They're two totally different game.

Though I have seen golfers jokingly putt the ball, holding their golf bat like a pool cue :-)