This is something to think about, when someone refers to a player as being realy good, how would you interprut what realy good is? Ask 20 people and you might get 20 answers. How do YOU measure what Realy Good is? Here's an example, how much better is a John Schmidt, Earl Strickland, Johnny Archer compared to you or the best player you know in your town, pool room?
By todays standards and games played its comments like, he's the 7 better or he's 2 games better so, does that measure the diffeence. Whats the difference between a pro and an amateur, when do you cross that line?
If you are going to play in an amateur only tournament, where is the line drawn that seperates a pro and an amateur? Is it the tournament director who makes this decision and what do they base it on? If your a PGA pro there is absolutely no question, if your a USGA amateur, that association sets the guidelins as to what an amateur is and one of those guidelines is "you can't play for cash prizes".
There are a lot of references in billiards to Golf so using that reference, how about this, do you know how good Tiger Woods game is compared to your golf game? Is it easier to make that comparison than it is to make the comparison as to how good your pool game is compared to our Pros.
The bottom line is out of the 40 million + pool players, 400,000 belong to leagues, there are approx 1,500 pros so how do we get the other 39,500,000 recreational players interested enough to become a pro, join a league, become a true amateur or just get more involved?
I would love to hear your thoughts........thanks.
By todays standards and games played its comments like, he's the 7 better or he's 2 games better so, does that measure the diffeence. Whats the difference between a pro and an amateur, when do you cross that line?
If you are going to play in an amateur only tournament, where is the line drawn that seperates a pro and an amateur? Is it the tournament director who makes this decision and what do they base it on? If your a PGA pro there is absolutely no question, if your a USGA amateur, that association sets the guidelins as to what an amateur is and one of those guidelines is "you can't play for cash prizes".
There are a lot of references in billiards to Golf so using that reference, how about this, do you know how good Tiger Woods game is compared to your golf game? Is it easier to make that comparison than it is to make the comparison as to how good your pool game is compared to our Pros.
The bottom line is out of the 40 million + pool players, 400,000 belong to leagues, there are approx 1,500 pros so how do we get the other 39,500,000 recreational players interested enough to become a pro, join a league, become a true amateur or just get more involved?
I would love to hear your thoughts........thanks.
