From amateur to turning pro – a bumpy ride
Whenever a new player enters the game, he or she always has high plans. However, as the time passes, they experience many bumpy rides during their career.
This is an interesting feature attached to players, as every new player has big aims and desires. However, the situation may become worse, when the desires and aims demand tough and challenging performances.
To give a boost to players' careers, it is highly required that the player must be a professional. While playing as an amateur, a player cannot achieve high standards of the game.
He can enjoy and learn to a great extent, but again, he will remain at the bottom line of the news.
There is a long way for the amateurs to become professionals in the game. Hence, like the other sports, golf is also not so easy.
To become a pro, several years of practise and hard work can only help.
If we speak about the difference between pros and amateurs, then on the top is fame. Most of the players are fame-thirsty.
They cannot perform or deliver their best while not achieving the desired game.
Hence, popularity and respect is one of the leading factors for the players to improve and flourish their game. Moreover, such respect can only be achieved while playing the mega tournaments.
Amateur tournaments are appealing, but to be as famous as currently Tiger Woods, Luke Donald and Rory McIlroy are, one needs to shine at bigger events.
A new player has to face tough challenges of the mega events staged by renowned golfing bodies like the Professional Golf Association (PGA), European Tour, Japan Golf Tour, Sunshine Tour and Asian Tour.
Now if we speak about the most important challenges faced by a player during his career, there will always be a professional player on the top most positions.
Amateur golf is competitive. A player has to be impressive at different courses.
His driving distance, accuracy, scoring average, putting, swing and all the other factors are important to be considered while performing as an amateur.
It means that if an amateur player improves all the above-mentioned elements, then he can be a professional in the near future.
On the other side of the story, not only improvements help, but victories and award achievements are also important to be focused on.
Without victories in tournaments, amateurs have to wait for a long time to acquire the professional status.
Now let us look at the current world No.1 golfer Luke Donald, he won three amateur titles in the past.
He started to play the game during his college life. He did hard work and improved his golfing skills that helped him to be the winner in amateur tournaments.
He turned professional in 2001, after winning the Northern Amateur title for the second time consecutively.
He was the rising star in England. His victories and appealing strokes made him a professional and a leading star worldwide.
He encountered many bumpy rides before 2001, but amazingly coped with the difficulties he faced.
Donald’s hard work helped him reach leading positions and now he is the world’s No. 1 ranked golfer.
Hence, amateurs need years of hard work and victories to become a pro, which is not easy at all.
There are many hurdles between a player and his professional career, so commitment and passion for the game is also required.
The only way to impress the world is to display some extra efforts, appealing strokes and win multiple amateur titles.
These factors usually convince the officials and then golfers can enjoy the professional tournaments in future. Their desire of earning respect, fame and popularity can be fulfilled after turning professional.
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