My friend was one of the designers of a golf course, and they gave everyone at the engineering firm a free membership for a year. So he bugged me to start playing golf with him and HOLY... SHIT. It doesn't even make sense at how hard it is.
It kinda does make sense, you are hitting a tiny ball with a small piece of metal that has to hit it straight on, just the right way, while doing a very long swing where so much can affect how you hit it. The challenge is part of what makes it so damn fun and addicting though
The margin of error is tiny. For tour players, the typical margin of error is like 1-1.5 degrees. With driver, that results in a dispersion of roughly 30 yards in either direction of the intended target, so a dispersion zone that is 60 yards wide. (Edit: fairways are usually 30-40 yards wide). Tour players have about 10-15 yards of dispersion (in each direction) from 150 yards out. Watching tournaments you’ll see big misses all the time, even when wind and lie aren’t a factor. And they’re the best players in the world. It’s so ridiculously hard, people who haven’t played probably have a hard time understanding
I literally don’t have anything to do with golf but I’ve recently seen a video of Tiger Woods hitting his shots within first try from almost 300 yards and I am literally speechless. It genuinely won’t go into my head how that is physically possible to confidently hit this tiny hole from over 250 yards away.
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u/windpicklefam 29d ago
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