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re: Tennis is the most difficult sport to master
Posted on 1/20/22 at 4:00 pm to lsupride87
Posted on 1/20/22 at 4:00 pm to lsupride87
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How often you see a high level pro golfer experiencing full body cramps to where they need to go to the hospital for IVs after?
You can do that playing tennis without mastering it.
I could Very easily do that playing tennis.
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Posted on 1/20/22 at 4:01 pm to ManBearTiger
Oh fuzzy one,
One does not master tennis. One can only hope to keep the ball between the lines.
Signed,
Zennis
One does not master tennis. One can only hope to keep the ball between the lines.
Signed,
Zennis
Posted on 1/20/22 at 4:08 pm to jclem11
quote:The average Joe golfer probably shoots around 88-90 (by average I mean handicap, which most golfers don't even keep, so its probably worse)
Exactly. Golf is hard as frick. I'm not discounting that. I'm just saying it's easier to not make a total fool of yourself as an average joe than tennis.
If a 17 handicap teed it up with the pros at the masters or US Open it would be an absolute laughing stock. It would be an utterly embarrassing display. I can assure you they would look like a total fool. By the time the cut rolled around they'd be in last place by 80 strokes. Watching an old duffer not reach the fairway, take 3 shots to get out of a bunker, hitting it 20 yards out of the rough, and 5 putting...is just a different type of embarrassing than whiffing at serves and running around aimlessly, but still quite embarrassing
This post was edited on 1/20/22 at 4:10 pm
Posted on 1/20/22 at 5:00 pm to ThePoo
I agree and you are starting to see the same training and analysis that is used in baseball being applied to golf and that is going to make it harder and harder to become a pro.
Still easier than tennis. With golf you peak much later due to rotational strength which peaks later in life and can be trained like crazy and bodyweight helps a ton.
With tennis yea you train some rotational strength but with the amount of running required you can't gain tons of muscle without seeing other issues.
As much as boarding and academies are becoming more common, it's been like that in tennis for 25 years.
Literally in tennis they know by 16 the potential you have. Which is crazy.
Still easier than tennis. With golf you peak much later due to rotational strength which peaks later in life and can be trained like crazy and bodyweight helps a ton.
With tennis yea you train some rotational strength but with the amount of running required you can't gain tons of muscle without seeing other issues.
As much as boarding and academies are becoming more common, it's been like that in tennis for 25 years.
Literally in tennis they know by 16 the potential you have. Which is crazy.
Posted on 1/20/22 at 7:57 pm to ManBearTiger
Ping pong much harder
Posted on 1/20/22 at 8:00 pm to ManBearTiger
That's why teenagers can win majors right? because it's so difficult to master?
Posted on 1/20/22 at 9:24 pm to ManBearTiger
fricking no.
Answer is golf.
Answer is golf.
Posted on 1/20/22 at 9:30 pm to PhiTiger1764
quote:
Lol. Oh yea? Link me that would ya?
Tom Morris, the younger variety.
Posted on 1/20/22 at 9:37 pm to ManBearTiger
No way, I used to play some when I was a lot younger and the only thing I never quiet developed was a proper serve. The rest of my game was pretty good.
Posted on 1/20/22 at 9:41 pm to Ponchy Tiger
quote:This goes back to my earlier point
No way, I used to play some when I was a lot younger and the only thing I never quiet developed was a proper serve. The rest of my game was pretty good.
quote:Good natured ribbing you but also dead serious at the same time
They think they have tennis down because they can bump it back and forth with their podnuh But they shoot 95 in golf and they have a reference point on how bad they suck
Posted on 1/20/22 at 9:49 pm to ThePoo
The mythical local club scratch golfer can’t keep it in bounds playing in a major gallery. I’d imagine the pressure for a tennis player of equal talent wouldn’t be as high. In fact, a larger crowd would probably help the tennis amateur.
Posted on 1/20/22 at 9:54 pm to wutangfinancial
I’ve heard Rafael Nadal is a pretty good golfer, would be interesting to see him play against professional golfers.
Posted on 1/20/22 at 9:59 pm to ManBearTiger
I say nay. I will not get into the argument of which sport is the hardest to master because I believe that all sports are hard to “Master” because of the special set of skills that are unique to each sport, the opportunity to play that particular sport, the natural abilities of particular persons to play sports in general, and the desire to play whatever particular sport a person is interested in.
Could Micheal Jordan have been a master at tennis if he had the “Tennis” upbringing? Who knows. He is athletic enough to be good at it, as he was with golf and baseball (good is relative). Being good is not being a Master. There are very few of those folks that Master sport.
Could Micheal Jordan have been a master at tennis if he had the “Tennis” upbringing? Who knows. He is athletic enough to be good at it, as he was with golf and baseball (good is relative). Being good is not being a Master. There are very few of those folks that Master sport.
Posted on 1/20/22 at 10:01 pm to TomBuchanan
Golf isn’t a sport. It’s a game. OP said sport.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 7:14 am to lsupride87
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Being a great athlete is huge in golf. It is why guys like Steph curry and Smotlz can become scratch players while being full time pro in another sport
Curry and Smoltz are not scratch golfers. The only reason they would be close is if they only entered their best scores. Tony Romo is probably scratch or close to it.
Posted on 1/21/22 at 7:38 am to ManBearTiger
Nay
Posted on 1/21/22 at 8:03 am to maizegoblue
quote:Steph curry, who plays 100 games a year and spends a shite ton of tin wining r basketball and squeezes in time to play golf when he can, hot a 73 at an actual pro event
Curry and Smoltz are not scratch golfers. The only reason they would be close is if they only entered their best scores. Tony Romo is probably scratch or close to it.
Smoltz and Romo have both shot under 75 at pebble beach during the pro event
Name another sport where you can even remotely pretend feats like that is possible?
Posted on 1/21/22 at 8:07 am to lsupride87
Alright the gloves are off
A fricking woman played a PGA tour event and shot 71-74
Golf is the EASIEST sport to “master”
A fricking woman played a PGA tour event and shot 71-74
Golf is the EASIEST sport to “master”
Posted on 1/21/22 at 11:17 am to ManBearTiger
Probably golf. Hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports
*after reading this thread im altering my answer. Its not golf because the sport doesnt get harder the better your opponent is.
*after reading this thread im altering my answer. Its not golf because the sport doesnt get harder the better your opponent is.
This post was edited on 1/21/22 at 11:21 am
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