I mostly agree that golf is a warm-weather function, but my deal is this ... I have a super stressful job (quality control manager for a management-training firm) and the older I get, the more that my primary motivation to work is to be able to (1) eat, (2) have food and a roof over my head, and (3) PLAY. Donna can tell you that I will go apesh** crazy if I have to sit in the house more than one consecutive weekend, so we golf or fish pretty much every weekend year-round.
I'd like to be able to just vegetate some weekends like normal folks but it doesn't work for me.