What do you think of this absurd comment
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The equivalent would be making a great shot for perfect position then forgetting his fundamentals and missing a "gimme" -- he missed the putt for eagle.
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IMO, it's all relative. You're playing against someone. If you're up against Mika or Darren or a lot of other excellent players on a pool table, good luck unless you're pro-level. Or even IF you're pro-level. If you're up against Tiger or Mickelson on a golf course, likewise. I do think golf is a harder game to master, given that every course is different, every lie is different, and you always have to factor in nature - wind, rain, whatever. Plus, there are a lot more moving parts in a golf swing than a pool stroke. But I think the difference between a great pool player and an average player is about the same as a great golfer and an average golfer. Different planets.
Really? Why wouldn't he? Serious, tell me smart guy.
Props for a funny quote but I don't think I deserved it for what I said.
I have the utmost respect for Earl's pool game but I think he's dead wrong.
To be a valid there would have to be a definition of a perfect game.
In pool you get one stroke to make the hole. A perfect game is a series of hole-in-ones. In golf there is no expectation that someone can do that. Par for the course is a perfect game.
But- I think Earl's proposition is valid. Can good golfers become good pool players vs. can good pool players become good golfers. I think the latter is more likely.
I heard that cavemen had this same argument about a million years agne things for sure though "most" pool games have alot more luck In them than any golf does.I'd say take out the luck factor and they would be on the same level.. John B.
I'll believe that when pool tables have grass on them instead of a nice flat piece of felt.
Originally Posted by matteroner View Post
I would like to see earl hit a 320 yard drive ....i'd give him say 100 chances and see what he can come up with.
Busted. :embarrassed2:
I would like to see earl hit a 320 yard drive ....i'd give him say 100 chances and see what he can come up with.
Busted. :embarrassed2:
Lucky us! . . . . . . . .
That's only because races to 8, etc., don't reveal the best player. The current predominant structure of competition is flawed. That isn't the fault of the game, it's the fault of the competitive structure. Longer races will reveal the best player.
Earl said that the hardest part of golf is putting and that pool is all putting- therefore harder than golf. What's your point? That his statement is wrong?
One shot. Lucky hit, skill, lucky hit, skill, lucky hit, skill . . . you decide.
Trying to decipher Earl's comments is not particularly easy. He loves John Brodie (a good quarterback and a very fine golfer) but hates the modern day equivalent of Brodie, Tony Romo (good quarterback who can shoot under par on the golf course). Earl doesn't consider Tony Romo a celebrity, but considers himself a celebrity.
Golf is, in my opinion, much harder than pool. You can make the perfect stroke on the fairways or the greens but both wind and slope will still have a say in whether you accomplish your goal, and gauging how wind and slope will alter the path of a shot is extremely difficult to judge even for the world's very best. Golf demands that you master countles trajectories and shot shapes to get to the top. Pool requires that you master a lot of shots, too, but not nearly as many. After all is said and done, however, these are two difficult games to play well.
Golf is, in my opinion, much harder than pool. You can make the perfect stroke on the fairways or the greens but both wind and slope will still have a say in whether you accomplish your goal, and gauging how wind and slope will alter the path of a shot is extremely difficult to judge even for the world's very best. Golf demands that you master countles trajectories and shot shapes to get to the top. Pool requires that you master a lot of shots, too, but not nearly as many. After all is said and done, however, these are two difficult games to play well.
If that's true then he is saying golf is harder than pool.
So would you tell Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan to play in the NFL or on the Pro-Golf tour? I certainly hope you were being sarcastic. Or do you just want to hate on Earl? There are very few world class athletes that can have a successful pro career in two sports.
He probably would tell them that if the NBA paid as much as pool, and Kobe and Michael made the comment that playing in the NFL or PGA was easier than basketball.
Uhh- not exactly, but whatever.
You ought to play on some of the tables I get to play on regularly. I see some serious similarities..... OK, maybe not having to fight the wind. But gauging the slope of the roll-offs we deal with in a couple of the places I play. Honestly, I have often referred to is as reading a putting green.
No, exactly.
If all of pool simply consists of just one of the many skillsets equired of in golf then golf has to be harder by complexity alone.
Now lets even disregard that for argument sake and say they both consist purely of putting, in golf you have to put on 18 different sized "tables" , radically variable contours,speeds and surface condition including but not limited to the fact that it also happens on grass. Whereas "putting" on a pool table is well.......like putting putting on a pool table.
Plus you can miss in pool, even on purpose, and still win. There are no misses in golf....ever. In fact some misses in golf cost you twice as many stroked. 
Either way, its obvious he has little or no golf experience. Otherwise many of his comments just don't make sense.
Funny how Earl, not at all known for his level headed and rational thinking throughout his entirely career would all of a sudden be taken seriously over comments well outside his world of knowledge.
Crazy people.