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Not all hours are equal, it's pretty close to impossible to be as productive while you're tired as when you're well rested. Not to mention that the person you'r

by ikono 16y ago

Not all hours are equal, it's pretty close to impossible to be as productive while you're tired as when you're well rested. Not to mention that the person you're quoting is not a professional golfer. Tiger is probably closer to 100,000 hours than he is to 10,000...

BvS 16y ago
If you play 50 hours a week you would still need almost 400 years to have played 1,000,000 hours...
damoncali 16y ago
I'd be shocked if Tiger Woods has spent more than 30-40,000 hours golfing. Do the math.
lloeki 16y ago
He never said he wants to take on Tiger Woods. The experiment seeks to validate and analyze whether or not 10k hours of practice will get one to expertise. I find it dismissive for all expert golfers (whether pro or not) below Woods (who lies at the extreme top end of the expertise pool). Here's some perspective: for Woods to have golfed 100,000 hours, he should have done so: - 8 hours a day every single day since he was born. or - 11 hours a day every single day since he was 10.
- ikono 16y ago
  Let me start off by saying I clearly added an extra 0 pre-edit. Tiger hasn't been alive for a million hours. Second, I said closer to 100,000 than 10,000. So I'm taking the over on 55k hours. Although I do think 100k is possible, even if unlikely(say 4-5 hours a day from 2-21, then 18 a day from 21-present). I do think he's probably averaged more than 8 hours a day since he turned pro if you include all activities that are meant to improve his ability on the golf course. That's clearly pretty close to the upper bound but more likely than 10k. Finally I agree that it's dismissive towards incredible golfers and I think that's why it's so many people looked at the article and commented here. I have no doubt that if someone puts in 10k hours over 6 years they would likely be a damn good golfer(better than scratch) but touring pro level is very unlikely. The issue in my mind that this article is stupid because either 1) It's obvious that you could get very good but perhaps not incredible at something after 10k hours of practice or 2) because we go by the title and realize that becoming a touring pro after not touching a golf club in the first 30 years of your life is not at all likely.

by ikono 16y ago

BvS 16y ago

If you play 50 hours a week you would still need almost 400 years to have played 1,000,000 hours...

damoncali 16y ago

I'd be shocked if Tiger Woods has spent more than 30-40,000 hours golfing. Do the math.

lloeki 16y ago

He never said he wants to take on Tiger Woods. The experiment seeks to validate and analyze whether or not 10k hours of practice will get one to expertise. I find it dismissive for all expert golfers (whether pro or not) below Woods (who lies at the extreme top end of the expertise pool). Here's some perspective: for Woods to have golfed 100,000 hours, he should have done so: - 8 hours a day every single day since he was born. or - 11 hours a day every single day since he was 10.

ikono 16y ago
Let me start off by saying I clearly added an extra 0 pre-edit. Tiger hasn't been alive for a million hours. Second, I said closer to 100,000 than 10,000. So I'm taking the over on 55k hours. Although I do think 100k is possible, even if unlikely(say 4-5 hours a day from 2-21, then 18 a day from 21-present). I do think he's probably averaged more than 8 hours a day since he turned pro if you include all activities that are meant to improve his ability on the golf course. That's clearly pretty close to the upper bound but more likely than 10k. Finally I agree that it's dismissive towards incredible golfers and I think that's why it's so many people looked at the article and commented here. I have no doubt that if someone puts in 10k hours over 6 years they would likely be a damn good golfer(better than scratch) but touring pro level is very unlikely. The issue in my mind that this article is stupid because either 1) It's obvious that you could get very good but perhaps not incredible at something after 10k hours of practice or 2) because we go by the title and realize that becoming a touring pro after not touching a golf club in the first 30 years of your life is not at all likely.