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Originally Posted by ntnBO
For the record, you're not going to find a pro that disagrees with me.BO
Please allow me to be the first golf professional to disagree.
For starters, I think this guy's chances of making the PGA Tour are so small that I couldn't find a way to measure them. I believe everyone on here realizes that, and understands his goals are probably unrealistic. I would agree that to make it on the PGA Tour it takes more than hard work - those that make it & win have both a unique ability & have put in thousands of hours honing their skills. That being said, I think throwing out ridiculous percentages with no fact other than "trust me, I know golf," and absurd analogies (c'mon - comparing football to golf is not comparing apples to apples), in addition to resorting to childish name calling is just plain foolish.
Bo, I know you're supposedly a good player, very knowledgeable about golf, and the first on here to tell most people their goals are unrealistic, but seriously, this quote might be the most ridiculous I've seen on the forum:
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1, you have to be born with the ability. 2, you have to work your butt off. If you don't have 1, you can work at golf 24/7 for the rest of your life and never break 80
I've seen blind people break 80, players missing arms/legs break 80, and I believe the world is full of people who challenge limits and conventional thinking, and those that tell them it cannot be achieved. Apparently you feel that the creator blessed you with a superior ability that 99% of the world didn't get and with no amount of training, resources, or work that they could ever achieve. I'm sorry, but I do not agree with that line of thinking.
Certainly, having good to great athletic ability is a huge advantage - look at the number of pure athletes who are on the PGA Tour now compared to 20 years ago, and that athletic ability will allow someone to advance faster than someone with less athletic ability, but saying someone needs to be born with that talent to break 80 just isn't fact. To play on the PGA Tour someone must be a superior athlete - both mentally & physically, but to break 80 or even to get to a low single digit - is a completely different story.
I 100% agree that putting 10,000 hours in a different sport wouldn't get you to the professional level (I don't think Heath Slocum, 5'7, 135 would be "taking his talents to Miami" to suit up w/Lebron if he'd spent his time playing basketball instead of golf), but I think if a player committed themselves to proper practice, fitness, lessons in mechanics & mental, they could reach their potential in the game, and I think with those factors & 10K hours of practice a player could break 80 easily & play to a low, single digit handicap - maybe not at Bethpage Black from the tips in US Open condition, but from their home course on a set of tees appropriate to their skill level.