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CJ _24 Get to the Point Thread
- Thread starter DeadMan
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Brick
Well-Known Member
CJ_24
Well-Known Member
I think there is a distinction between a Cinderella story of an also-ran professional golfer playing great at a Major and the personality of that golfer. I think the "I'm the aw-shucks, every-man club pro" personality is fraudulent. I think he's professional golfer masquerading as a club pro and, more importantly, an attention hound pretending to be humble to get more attention.You don't think a 46 year old who has previously only made 4 cuts in his PGA career qualifies for "aw-schucks, humble ole me" status when he finds himself in contention for a major? To me, the real story is just as good as the soundbite narrative the media was pushing.
CJ_24
Well-Known Member
I follow a lot of golf. I cannot escape this story and it's annoying me. So I am venting to get it out of mah system
goblue96
Disney and Curling Expert
The margin between tour pro and high level club pro is both big and small at the same time. Ability-wise, it's not a big gap. They can all bomb it 300+ of the tee and hit irons with ungodly amount of spin. Arrogance-wise, the tour pros believe that they can make every shot from everywhere. The average club pro doesn't have that same belief. BLOCK probably could have carved out a nice career as a journeyman pro bouncing between the PGA Tour and whatever the AAA Tour is called this year. He makes a more consistent income as a club pro is Southern California and cleaning up on the club pro circuit there.
DeadMan
aka spiker or DeadMong
Yes, it is. Block is a +4 handicap is around 4 strokes per round worse than an average PGA Tour player. His swing speed is roughly 5 mph slower than the tour average. We can measure this stuff.
Block is a phenomenal golfer. Probably one of the 1,000 best in the world. The ability gap between him and a PGA Tour player is still huge.
DeadMan
aka spiker or DeadMong
Again, we can actually measure this stuff. Look at his strokes gained stats: https://www.pgatour.com/player/22764/michael-block/stats. He's roughly 4 shots worse than an average PGA tour pro.
goblue96
Disney and Curling Expert
We are talking about two different stats: stroked gained and USGA Handicap. The raw ability is not much different. You saying that if he was a touring pro instead of a club pro at age 25 and could dedicate eight hours a day to practice instead giving lessons to Mr. and Mrs. Havercamp, he would not have gained that extra 5 mph of club head speed needed to stay on tour. The margins are small but the gap created by those small margins is big.
