I hate the whole "pro/amateur" illusion!

The following is a brief rant by TXjammer.

Pros are not super-human. Amateurs are not failures. The golf clubs pros play with are NOT "special". Your golf clubs are NOT "sub-standard". Pros DO hit bad shots, have bad days/scores, and not EVERY one of their drives goes farther than 250yds. Amateurs CAN hit further than 300yds in the right conditions on a good day.

What is the REAL difference b/w an amateur and a pro? A real job. If you have a real job, you have to work at it. Therefore you can't play as much golf as someone who's real job is to play golf. Therefore you cannot develope your game playing once/twice a week as well as someone who hits 1,000 golf balls/day, and should not expect to. Realizing this will greatly decrease a lot of the stresses and dissappointments discussed by the amateur golf community, and hopefully break down the myths that have become a mystical cloud surrounding the professional golf community.

Am I a little envious of said pros? Yes.

Rant over.

Damn can you get me some Acid?

Sorry, I don´t ship to Boston. It´s also illegal. You sir, should be ashamed of yourself.

A rant is what it is....random thoughts thrown out there to spark conversation and debate between people with common interests...in this case, golf. All thoughts expressed in my rant were derived mainly from the reading of posts in this forum.

NO. Read carefully and you will see I was saying we shouldn't be dissappointed when we don't play to the level of the pros when we can't apply the time to the game that they can.

Shortest drive of the year on the 2010 PGA Tour: Aaron Baddeley hit a 24 yard drive. Now

I can't say I buy that argument. If that's all that stopped people we would see a lot more 9-5ers quitting their jobs. Tour pros don't have a job because when they were young someone realized that they had a talent for golf. Of course, you are going to have some exceptions, but they are just that; exceptions.

Sure, being a scratch player could happen to a percentage of people on this forum if they played everyday but also keep in mind, scratch is still VERY far from pro.

i take it you have never been to a large turny for softball? The Mens majors will make somewhere between 100k-350k a year ?

Yea...I didn't word that very well did I? I didn't literally mean "THE ONLY DIFFERENCE"...sorry.

Whatever man...

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At that's the beautiful thing with opinions. I respect yours and fathom wasn't meant to be used negatively. I played baseball for the Jr blue jays, NCAA DIV1 and Single A ball in the minors - baseball was my 9-5. I threw 90mph and came close but still, even still with all the athletic ability, talent, whatever that I had, just couldn't get there. That's what I mean by fathom. When you can taste it and still be so far away from the big show.

No doubt Deryck. And it's true I have aspirations that are out of my reach....maybe. BUT, I'm just one of those kind of people who has to have something to strive for or I get severely BORED with life. Like you, I have tasted closeness to the "big show", but in music. Being a prof. musician since I was 15, I have shared stage with some big acts and names and could never claim my own spot on the world stage.....there's just "that thing" I didn't have....whatever that is. Just being able to hit the notes and play the riffs wasn't enough. Likewise I know a few golfers and have read about tons more out on the mini tours that can actually outplay some of the tour pros...but opportunity hasn't presented itself. Anyway, we're way off subject now, but who cares.