I won’t re-litigate the sources of golf improvement here… well-trodden ground around here
The rest of Coyne’s ladder is amusing:
- The Best Players You Know
- Club Pros
- Stud Amateurs
- Attached Club Pro (like a club pro without the responsibility, there so members can hang with them)
- Mini-Tour Philanthropists (because they donate their entry fee)
- Mini-Tour Grinder
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NationwideWeb.comKorn Ferry Earners - Six Figure Survivors (the first of the PGA Tour players)
- The Players
- The Superstars
He goes on to say:
They should amend those ads on TV - These guys are good. How good? You’ve got no f-ing idea
As impenetrable and unscalable as the pyramid might seem, the reality is that the difference between the apex and the bottom masses is about six, maybe seven, golf shots a round. As vast as the talent gulf may seem, a scorecard doesn’t know anything about the talent pyramid.