Good point, This article gives some stats on different handicaps. Scratch players make up 1.85% of players. By comparison, the only stat I can find for Fargo is their website states there are 300 players with a 700 rating in he US. I don’t know what percentage that is but it is definitely lower than 2%. However, it’s tricky to compare because there are likely a higher proportion of super casual pool players than there are golfers and I don’t know Fargos reach at this time, so I still think the 675-700 is about right considering the relative distance to the top professionals.Fair enough... but then I guess we need to also determine the volume of players of each game. 40k seems like a big number, but is it 40k of 4M...?..., 40M?
Maybe I'm giving golf's difficulty too much credit...?. I do golf and know several people that obsess over both games. I can think of 5 people off the top of my head that are low 700spd pool players that aren't scratch golfers. However if they weren't playing one game, they were playing the other.
Again, maybe I'm just assigning too much difficulty to obtaining a scratch avg in golf.
Personally, I think you will see people at varying skill levels in their hobbies not because of inherent difficulty necessarily but some things just click better for one person. That and although I do believe pool to be a very hard game, it’s possibly the easiest game to practice. You can install a table in your home and recreate any scenario with ease. That already gives a big learning advantage over golf since I don’t think I can could even plant myself on 6th hole sand trap for 2 hours before getting kicked out lol.
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