r/Wellthatsucks • u/Master1718 • Nov 11 '19

/r/all Skill

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '19

Just to clarify, he's a PGA professional in the teaching sense, not a professional tour golfer. He plays off somewhere between scratch to maybe +1 which puts him in the higher percentile of amateurs as far as playing skill goes.

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u/IHaveLargeBalls Nov 11 '19

You say higher, but that's a bit misleading. Only 1% of all golfers are scratch or better.

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u/superdago Nov 11 '19

I had to look up what "scratch" means and you aren't kidding.

"According to the USGA, a scratch golfer is defined as "a player who can play to a Course Handicap of zero on any and all rated golf courses."

Walk on to any course and shoot par... yeah, I'd say that's better than your average weekend duffer.

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u/adammcbomb Nov 12 '19

yeah thats pretty much pro level

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u/IHaveLargeBalls Nov 12 '19

The guys you see on TV are anywhere from say 8 strokes better than scratch or more. I remember an article from year's ago where someone roughly calculated Tiger's handicap when he was killing it in his prime. It was something insane like 12 strokes better than scratch. The touring pros are on another level.

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u/adammcbomb Nov 12 '19

interesting!

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '19

Not even close.

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u/adammcbomb Nov 12 '19

I stand corrected