re: Should Golfers be called athletes?

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Various activities were graded on 10 components of athleticism: endurance, strength, power, speed, agility, flexibility, nerve, durability, hand-eye coordination and analytic aptitude. Boxing ranked first, followed by hockey, football and basketball. Golf ranked -- take a deep breath -- 51st out of the 60 sports, just behind table tennis and horse racing. It did, however, place just ahead of cheerleading and roller-skating, with fishing finishing last.

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so that settles it. It's a sport and has athletes. Just not very good ones.

Nope, nevermind, anything that says golf is more athletic than cheerleading is null and void