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re: What athletes do you think could succeed on the PGA Tour?
Posted on 4/12/25 at 8:33 am to TackySweater
Posted on 4/12/25 at 8:33 am to TackySweater
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I’m not sure why they aren’t good enough. I’m sure they’d suck way more at any other major sport though
This is an argument FOR it being more difficult to make it as a pro golfer.
Golf is the only sport where people aren’t basically ruled out of becoming a professional athlete at birth due to genetics. There’s only so many people with lifelong training who will ever be able to run a 4.5. Only so many people who will ever be 6’8”. Etc.
The pool of people to compete against in golf is much larger.
This post was edited on 4/12/25 at 8:34 am
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Posted on 4/12/25 at 8:35 am to PhiTiger1764
That is some impressive mental gymnastics, I must say lol
Posted on 4/12/25 at 8:37 am to cdur86
quote:i never thought this was a thing but many years ago we hired a former small college qb and he came out to play with our softball team and we had him pitch because he was so bad. He threw a softball like a 5 year old child so underhanded was pretty much his limit. A few months later at a work picnic, someone had a football and he grabbed it and and threw a 30 yard Elway-like rope. I still don't get it 30 years later
I've tried watching some "athletes" try to throw a baseball.
Posted on 4/12/25 at 8:43 am to JerryTheKingBawler
I’m just here to laugh at the naive answers.
Posted on 4/12/25 at 8:44 am to UncleFestersLegs
If you took the entirety of the mlb, put them in a Time Machine and devoted them to golf from childhood, you would end up with multiple pga players
If you took the entirety of the nfl, put them in a Time Machine and devoted them to golf from childhood, you would have multiple pga players
If you took the entirety of the pga tour, put them in a Time Machine and devoted them to football from childhood, you may get a deep snapper
Same for pga tour and baseball
Golf is EXTREMELY HARD, but the “best chance” the average child has of being a pro athlete is in golf.
If you took the entirety of the nfl, put them in a Time Machine and devoted them to golf from childhood, you would have multiple pga players
If you took the entirety of the pga tour, put them in a Time Machine and devoted them to football from childhood, you may get a deep snapper
Same for pga tour and baseball
Golf is EXTREMELY HARD, but the “best chance” the average child has of being a pro athlete is in golf.
Posted on 4/12/25 at 8:46 am to PhiTiger1764
quote:Dude, just the opposite
This is an argument FOR it being more difficult to make it as a pro golfer. Golf is the only sport where people aren’t basically ruled out of becoming a professional athlete at birth due to genetics. There’s only so many people with lifelong training who will ever be able to run a 4.5. Only so many people who will ever be 6’8”. Etc.
More people the second they are born have a 0.0% chance to be a pro in football. That quite literally makes it harder
This post was edited on 4/12/25 at 8:47 am
Posted on 4/12/25 at 11:54 am to lsupride87
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More people the second they are born have a 0.0% chance to be a pro in football. That quite literally makes it harder
I’m not arguing against this. Essentially I am saying that for current professional athletes: football, basketball, baseball players… they were already ahead of 99% of the general population at birth due to genetics and the athletic requirements of those sports.
If they all played golf growing up, none of the physical advantages they had to start above 99% of the population apply in golf. So I disagree with your earlier post that there would definitely be multiple PGA players from those groups if they chose golf growing up. There might be some, or there very well could be zero.
Posted on 4/12/25 at 12:06 pm to PhiTiger1764
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or there very well could be zero.
There’s a 0% chance this is true lol
This post was edited on 4/12/25 at 12:07 pm
Posted on 4/12/25 at 1:58 pm to JerryTheKingBawler
Any goal scorer in the nhl would succeed they have the right hand eye coordination and balance
Posted on 4/12/25 at 2:04 pm to TackySweater
Not much of a golfer are you…
Posted on 4/12/25 at 2:16 pm to JerryTheKingBawler
I was thinking about this relative to the thread about golf being the toughest sport - which I don't think is necessarily true,
There are for sure some sports where a rare genetic gift is a prerequisite - being able to run sub 4.5 in football; being 6'9 in basketball.
That genetic gifting isn't as big a requirement in golf, or (I think) in baseball.
And I believe being a competitive pro baseball player is more difficult than being a professional golfer.
Ted Williams - one of the best pure, disciplined hitters ever - could have played professional golf in my opinion
There are for sure some sports where a rare genetic gift is a prerequisite - being able to run sub 4.5 in football; being 6'9 in basketball.
That genetic gifting isn't as big a requirement in golf, or (I think) in baseball.
And I believe being a competitive pro baseball player is more difficult than being a professional golfer.
Ted Williams - one of the best pure, disciplined hitters ever - could have played professional golf in my opinion
Posted on 4/12/25 at 2:16 pm to JerryTheKingBawler
I don’t think y’all realize how good your players are
Posted on 4/12/25 at 2:29 pm to CBandits82
The elements effect golf more than any other sport.
Posted on 4/12/25 at 2:31 pm to Madking
Tacky is either an 8 year old or an Aspie living at home at 30
Posted on 4/12/25 at 4:50 pm to dukke v
quote:
Not much of a golfer are you…
Thanks for answering the question though
Posted on 4/12/25 at 4:52 pm to JerryTheKingBawler
Aaron judge was the last human that came to mind for me
Posted on 4/12/25 at 4:56 pm to InCaliForNow
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That genetic gifting isn't as big a requirement in golf, or (I think) in baseball.
Maybe not, but I bet it helps to be born without a sciatic nerve, to be putting that much torque on your lower back all day almost every day.
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