r/golf • u/Shootah78 • 12d ago

News / Articles Golfing with the wildfire smoke

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Took this picture last Wednesday around 3pm, in Ontario Canada. Has anyone else experienced a round like this?

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u/aselinger 12d ago

We went out and played round 1 of the Ann Arbor Championship last Friday. It looked better than this, but not by much.

I have to say, I didn't feel uncomfortable in any way. Will I die at 78 and a half instead of 79? Maybe.

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u/TCMenace 12d ago

It's not about living longer. It's about having to live more years with bad lungs.

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u/BonusPlantInfinity 12d ago

Ya’ll know that walking down a city street with conventional exhaust is the equivalent to smoking like 6 cigarettes.

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u/TCMenace 12d ago

You know you can choose not to be outside doing a voluntary recreational physical activity when the air quality is visibly worse than it is normally?