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Golf is not considered a ball sport, nor is pool/billiards at least in the US. Another term for ball sense is "ball skills". BB<div><br><div><div>On Feb 22, 2009, at 7:17 PM, Richard Rhodes wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="width: 655px; position: relative; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; "><div id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 470px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 25px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; z-index: 1; line-height: 1.22em; "><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia; "><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">People say "game sense" (49 million hits on google). And "ball sense" (13 million hits). And there are plenty of less than professional quality ball players who have good ball sense and good game sense.</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; ">But ball sense doesn't really apply to golf. It means the player knows were the ball is going to be and so reacts appropriately, so it applies to games in which the player must react to the path of ball (soccer, American football, basketball, baseball, tennis, field hockey, etc.). (Interestingly, I had never heard "puck sense" for ice hockey, but it gets a million hits on google and the definition matches "ball sense".)</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Game sense is about understanding the flow of the game, and again is mostly about tactics and players' ability to solve tactical problems. Doesn't really apply to golf. It even seems odd to me for tennis.</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Rich Rhodes</div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></div><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4px; line-height: 1.22em; "><font color="#000080" style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Scott,</font><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4px; line-height: 1.22em; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080" style="line-height: 1.22em; "> </font><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4px; line-height: 1.22em; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080" style="line-height: 1.22em; ">I wonder how you define "Sprachgefühl.<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">" That would help me to answer your question.</font><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4px; line-height: 1.22em; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080" style="line-height: 1.22em; ">I also wonder why certain words are borrowed from other languages. English has not</font><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4px; line-height: 1.22em; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080" style="line-height: 1.22em; ">borrowed "Ballgefühl" which exceptional players of games have where a ball plays a role</font><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4px; line-height: 1.22em; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080" style="line-height: 1.22em; ">(Diego Maradona, Tiger Woods, Rafael Nadal). How would one say "Ballgefühl" in English?</font><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4px; line-height: 1.22em; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080" style="line-height: 1.22em; "> </font><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4px; line-height: 1.22em; "><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000080" style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Fritz Goerling</font><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4px; line-height: 1.22em; ">Is this the wrong list to ask whether, in your opinion or research,<br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Sprachgefuhl varies most by class, region, or level of education?<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><br style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Scott Catledge<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4px; line-height: 1.22em; "><x style="line-height: 1.22em; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x><x style="line-height: 1.22em; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x><br style="line-height: 1.22em; "></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4px; line-height: 1.22em; "></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 4px; line-height: 1.22em; "><x style="line-height: 1.22em; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x><x style="line-height: 1.22em; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x><x style="line-height: 1.22em; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x><x style="line-height: 1.22em; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x><x style="line-height: 1.22em; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x><x style="line-height: 1.22em; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x><x style="line-height: 1.22em; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></x><x style="line-height: 1.22em; "> </x></blockquote></div></div></div><img src="http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11682781/grpspId=1709195911/msgId=4890/stime=1235359078/nc1=3848621/nc2=5191953/nc3=5349273" width="1" height="1"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><div style="color: white; clear: both; "></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div>
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