If you practiced and trained 8 hours a day, every day, in 3-5 years you might be good enough to compete at the state and regional amateur level.
To compete at the pro level you have to be good enough to show up at a course you’ve never seen before, walk to the back tees, and on a bad day still break 70. Not often, not every once in a while, but every time. Even then, that’s probably not good enough to make Korn Ferry.
You need to be able to shoot mid to low 60s on basically every course you travel to to even sniff a chance.
Then you need to do that in tournament conditions. Pretty much every day, minus some days where you’re high 60s or have some bad rounds above par.
You are about 10 years behind and 40 shots. Let’s not even get into the fact that tournament setups are harder than basically most course you’ll play regularly and much longer as well.
So shoot those scores from further back and with harder greens. Then you’ll have a shot. Hopefully you can do it under pressure because you need to pay bills.
I get you love golf but you have such a minuscule chance you might as well just get better and learn to enjoy the game, not grind out getting to maybe eventually scratch and probably burn yourself out in the process.
Bro if you didn’t break 80 by 15 at the max, with all the practice in the world before you give up you aren’t even taking money from the local stick at the club
Not trying to be a jerk off here, but this is just a troll post, right?? Take a look at the scores of your local section's amateur tournaments...then state's. Almost all of the guys that are top 15 are + handicaps and none of them are even remotely close to being good enough to go pro.
There are currently at least 500 15 year old kids breaking par regularly on 6500 yard golf courses in this country. 1 or 2 will make the tour someday. You're too late sport.
Still a noble pursuit to get as good as you can.
You'll not get anywhere near the level you want obviously, but that doesn't mean you can't join a club, get an official handicap and play the weekend comps. The handicap system levels the field and theoretically should give you a chance to compete in the events.
That'll give you the competition you crave, and the better you play, the lower your handicap will become. At the moment the lowest you should probably try to focus on is getting down to 18, a shot a hole. If you ever get to that, then you can look at other goals too.
Good luck and have fun
30 years ago, people used to think they could get on the PGA Tour Champions (Senior Tour back then) when they turned 50, as it was a bunch of old guys back then.
30 years later, you'd be playing against Ernie Els and Steve Stricker every week.
And everyone is still shooting 95 at the muni every weekend.
Lee Trevino once advised guys who want to turn pro: "Win your club championship first". When you can do that, you can think about turning pro. You still probably won't make it, but at least you might have a shot. If you can't win your club championship, you are not going to make it as a professional.
Create a YouTube channel and document your process. If you are lucky you’ll attract enough followers to pay for your journey, but probably won’t make it.
Most of the better YouTube content creators are doing YouTube because they couldn’t make it on the tour.
I’m 26, shooting in high 70s and low 80s and even I know my dream of playing on the Korn Ferry tour is far fetched lmao. I’ve won one amateur tournament event and lost 2 already and I’m by no means a bad player. Tournament golf is hard and the tourneys I play in aren’t even remotely close to the Korn ferry tour
Unless you somehow are a prodigy and can shoot in the 60s like the other users have mentioned, I think you’re better off first learning to have fun with the game.
Going pro costs about 80-100k a year so if you have the funds, and are good, go for it.
But if not, love golf for the game it is. If you get to the point where you’re shooting well under par, feel free to revisit that dream
Not sure if this is one of those meta jokes or not. But if serious you honestly have about a 0% chance.
He would need to be 10x better to have 0% chance. This is actually a negative value at the moment
So you’re saying there’s a chance ?
If you work on your game 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, like a normal job, with a good coach twice a week, no chance.
So you're saying he just needs the coach 3 days a week instead?
Those are rookie numbers. He can push his chances to 1% if he only sleeps for 3 hours, and spends the rest of his life golfing.
Join the military they'll put you on tour
That's a way different tour.....
It's the only one this guy has a chance to make
You’ll go broke before you break 80 trying to go pro
If you practiced and trained 8 hours a day, every day, in 3-5 years you might be good enough to compete at the state and regional amateur level. To compete at the pro level you have to be good enough to show up at a course you’ve never seen before, walk to the back tees, and on a bad day still break 70. Not often, not every once in a while, but every time. Even then, that’s probably not good enough to make Korn Ferry.
You need to be able to shoot mid to low 60s on basically every course you travel to to even sniff a chance. Then you need to do that in tournament conditions. Pretty much every day, minus some days where you’re high 60s or have some bad rounds above par. You are about 10 years behind and 40 shots. Let’s not even get into the fact that tournament setups are harder than basically most course you’ll play regularly and much longer as well. So shoot those scores from further back and with harder greens. Then you’ll have a shot. Hopefully you can do it under pressure because you need to pay bills. I get you love golf but you have such a minuscule chance you might as well just get better and learn to enjoy the game, not grind out getting to maybe eventually scratch and probably burn yourself out in the process.
Do you think you could become a major league pitcher down the line? It’s not exactly the same but pretty much a similar hypothetical.
Bro if you didn’t break 80 by 15 at the max, with all the practice in the world before you give up you aren’t even taking money from the local stick at the club
Not trying to be a jerk off here, but this is just a troll post, right?? Take a look at the scores of your local section's amateur tournaments...then state's. Almost all of the guys that are top 15 are + handicaps and none of them are even remotely close to being good enough to go pro.
There are currently at least 500 15 year old kids breaking par regularly on 6500 yard golf courses in this country. 1 or 2 will make the tour someday. You're too late sport. Still a noble pursuit to get as good as you can.
You'll not get anywhere near the level you want obviously, but that doesn't mean you can't join a club, get an official handicap and play the weekend comps. The handicap system levels the field and theoretically should give you a chance to compete in the events. That'll give you the competition you crave, and the better you play, the lower your handicap will become. At the moment the lowest you should probably try to focus on is getting down to 18, a shot a hole. If you ever get to that, then you can look at other goals too. Good luck and have fun
30 years ago, people used to think they could get on the PGA Tour Champions (Senior Tour back then) when they turned 50, as it was a bunch of old guys back then. 30 years later, you'd be playing against Ernie Els and Steve Stricker every week. And everyone is still shooting 95 at the muni every weekend.
You could play golf everyday for the next 30 years and there still would be a 13 year old who could wipe the floor with you.
The second part.
Lee Trevino once advised guys who want to turn pro: "Win your club championship first". When you can do that, you can think about turning pro. You still probably won't make it, but at least you might have a shot. If you can't win your club championship, you are not going to make it as a professional.
I know several people trying to get their tour card... None of them will.
Create a YouTube channel and document your process. If you are lucky you’ll attract enough followers to pay for your journey, but probably won’t make it. Most of the better YouTube content creators are doing YouTube because they couldn’t make it on the tour.
I’m 26, shooting in high 70s and low 80s and even I know my dream of playing on the Korn Ferry tour is far fetched lmao. I’ve won one amateur tournament event and lost 2 already and I’m by no means a bad player. Tournament golf is hard and the tourneys I play in aren’t even remotely close to the Korn ferry tour Unless you somehow are a prodigy and can shoot in the 60s like the other users have mentioned, I think you’re better off first learning to have fun with the game. Going pro costs about 80-100k a year so if you have the funds, and are good, go for it. But if not, love golf for the game it is. If you get to the point where you’re shooting well under par, feel free to revisit that dream
Brutal honesty... That is the same dream as 98% of the people on this sub.....
You're too far behind pros at 21. Maybe aim for senior tour. You have 29 years to catch up.
You should try to go high level amateur first.
I usually have a bit of poop in my drawers after the round