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The pros are not constantly making mistakes. They make an occassional mistake, followed by a brilliant shot. When Tiger (or most any pro) puts it into the trees, he doesn't have to aim sideways and put one into the middle of the fairway (like me), he can somehow go around/over/through the trees and find himself somewhere near/on the green.

While I agree that a pro makes a ton of better shots than an amateur and has more shots in the bag, I highly disagree that pros don't constantly make mistakes, it's just their mistakes are good shots for the average player. If they didn't constantly miss shots then they would birdie every hole and when's the last time that happened?


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While I agree that a pro makes a ton of better shots than an amateur and has more shots in the bag, I highly disagree that pros don't constantly make mistakes, it's just their mistakes are good shots for the average player. If they didn't constantly miss shots then they would birdie every hole and when's the last time that happened?

I do agree with you that their mistakes are good shots for the average player, I'm not arguing that. I think where we are disagreeing is in our definition of missed shots. From 150 yards, a pro's miss might be hitting the ball on the wrong side of the green and leaving himself 50 feet for birdie. An average golfer's miss might be any number of shots, chiefly, missing the green completely.

So while I have to scramble to give myself a chance at saving par, a pro is hitting a lag putt to give himself a tap-in par. That's a huge difference between a pro and an average golfer.

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I do agree with you that their mistakes are good shots for the average player, I'm not arguing that. I think where we are disagreeing is in our definition of missed shots. From 150 yards, a pro's miss might be hitting the ball on the wrong side of the green and leaving himself 50 feet for birdie. An average golfer's miss might be any number of shots, chiefly, missing the green completely.

Even though their mistakes are not as big as ours, they still quite often make mistakes. For them, they may be huge mistakes. For us, we would love to have their mistakes. So I agree with the assumption that they quite often make mistakes. I wouldn't necessarily say that they "constantly" make mistakes. I would just say that they do it often.

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Even though their mistakes are not as big as ours, they still quite often make mistakes. For them, they may be huge mistakes. For us, we would love to have their mistakes. So I agree with the assumption that they quite often make mistakes.

Thanks TN94z. This is the middle ground I was trying to find


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Ben Hogan was quoted as saying that anyone is luck to have five perfect shots in any round of golf. That should say a lot.

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If you have a lot of time, decent athleticism, and aren't a mental case, I think pretty much anyone meeting those 3 criteria can be scratch.

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