Becoming an "Expert" golfer

[Shorty]

Then you might be missing the point of the theory. Just haphazardly playing 10,000 hour of golf for fun with no intention or desire to improve doesn't put you on the path to being an expert. The theory is partially assuming that the person is willing and actively trying to get better and improve through practice, etc.

My point is that you can't put a number of hours on what it takes to be an "expert" in any field. It's an idiotic notion. People have varying levels of aptitude and motivation.

Different activities have different degrees of complexity and depth. I would pretty much call an 18 year old + handicapper an expert if he's been playing seriously for 3 or 4 years. My comment was about the 23 year old pro as much as the 50 year od. It was my understanding of the OP that it was an "am I an expert yet?" kind of post. And I know that the OP didn't ask that question.

[Joeyvee]

yeah. I have spent well over 10,000 playing hocey and I am nowhere near expert level. Compared to someone who has never played yeah. It would be ridiculous to try and play me but still. I'd get smoked in a minor league game, never mind concussed pretty quickly. lol.
Shoot I've probbaly got 10,000 hours coaching hockey but I could never coach college or pro hockey. I mean not this week.

[Stretch]

and if I wasnt then why would I say I am?

"If I'm not me, den who da hell am I?" -- A. Schwartzenegger.

[alo1984]

and if I wasnt then why would I say I am?

Right, so I am.

[B-Con]

Some approximations: 10000 hrs works out to 1,000 days of 10 hours. So, once you've put in the equivalent of 3 solid years worth of long work days every day, or roughly 5 years of 10 hour work days 5 days a week week minus some holidays/vacations, you'll have your 10,000 hours of time.

So, have you spent as much time golfing total as you have spent working over the last 5 years?

[Bigtank]

Who would want to be called a golf "expert"? Then you would get lumped in with Jack-Wagons like Gary McCord and Johnny Miller!

IMHO...So called Golf Experts dont know their a** from a hole in the ground!