Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours of practice?

Re:Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours... by chops on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @02:57PM (#2438617)

This reminds me of a blog I read a few years ago called "Scratch to Scratch". The point of the exercise was to go from being an ultrabeginner golfer to a par golfer in a year of serious practice and training.

Here's the about page from his blog: http://breakparblueprint.com/blog/about-2/

That is apparently, his new blog migrated from the original, found here: http://scratchtoscratch.wordpress.com/

The big thing was the time and effort investment: over 70,000 practice balls, and 2,000 hours in a year (that's close to a full-time job).

He actually ended up writing a book about it:

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Hack-Golfers-Challenge-Break/dp/...

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Re:Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours... by oldstrangers on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @10:55PM (#2440523)

You can also count on this "Dan Plan" becoming a book. Ultimately, that's the entire point of this project anyways. Not to be a golf champion, but to sell a lot of books.

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Re:Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours... by diegob on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @11:39AM (#2442736)

I thought the entire point was to become a PGA golfer ...

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