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golf has open tournaments. no need to be spotted it's literally just up to your ability and nothing else
by denimnerd 9y ago
golf has open tournaments. no need to be spotted
it's literally just up to your ability and nothing else
- yakult 9y agoYou need access to expertise, equipment, grounds, peer competition. These all require money and/or connections.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoGolf is cheap. You could spend $1000 on equipment, get a yearly pass for $2300 right outside Google HQ. Spend $50 or is it $100 to join the men's club -- they'd love for you to join -- and get your NCGA handicap. Done. Read the greatest kung fu manual ever written, "Five Lessons" by Ben Hogan, or use some other book. I met one kid that modeled his swing off of YouTube videos and with that got himself to a scratch handicap. The real cost is time.
- PhasmaFelis 9y ago> Golf is cheap. You could spend $1000 on equipment, get a yearly pass for $2300 right outside Google HQ. $3300 is not in any way "cheap" for the majority of Americans. I like HN, but it's disheartening how many of my peers in tech seem to think that a West Coast programmer's salary is normal.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoIt's cheaper than smoking. Edit: Well, depends on the accounting. The median U.S. income is $51K so by all means it's affordable. The main cost is time.
- randomdata 9y agoMedian household income is $50k. Median individual income is $30k, leaving the aforementioned year of golf taking about 10% of ones (median) income. That is a fairly large expense.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoIf you're trying to go pro, 10% of income is nothing compared to the time investment. Like, it's an amount. But plenty of people get by on $27K.
- randomdata 9y agoThat's pre-tax income though. There will be some variation by location and situation, but if we say post-tax is $24k that does not even leave $21k. That is not a lot to live on. And, since we're talking about the median, 50% of the earning population are going to be left with even less than that.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoEven then you're talking a cost for something you'd be devoting most of your free time to doing. You don't have to do it in California.
- akvadrako 9y agoIt's cheap compared to 6000 hours, unless you make under 10 dollars per day.
- et-al 9y agoWest Coast programmer who feels adequately compensated here and $3300 ain't cheap for me, either. At $275/month, that's more than my current grocery budget for a single person.
- pja 9y agoGolf is cheap. Hmm. You could say much the same about tennis, surely? I suspect the biggest cost at the top level is coaching time: Is it possible to get good enough to match the elite players without access to a coach who is good enough to train players at that level?
- SamReidHughes 9y agoIt's possible. Bubba Watson did it.