Capella
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Just because I am wondering and there are no statistics on this online which I could find: how many amateur golfers (in the UK, let's say) are actually scratch players? And does anyone know someone who has started golf as an adult (being older than 30 when he or she started, let's say, without any experience with golf before that point) who has managed to get down to scratch?
My home club has over 1000 members and not one single scratch player at the moment, and the only one we had in the past has started to play at the age of 5 and did little else than play golf all through his childhood and teen years. A friend of mine started playing as a teenager, played golf in the highest German amateur golf league for a few seaons, and still plays in our ladie's team. She has played golf competetively for more than 30 years now, yet the best handicap she ever got down to was a 3.something. She says, she probably started too late to get really good at it. I also know a few professional athletes (mostly football players) who started golf after ending their professional careers and got very invested in it. They did manage to get down to single figures quickly, but there it seems to stal for them as well.
I am not saying it can't be done (even if no one had ever done it before I would not say it cannot be done, someone always has to be the first one), I am just curious, if somebody actually knows someone who started golf as an adult and who still has made it to scratch player.
My home club has over 1000 members and not one single scratch player at the moment, and the only one we had in the past has started to play at the age of 5 and did little else than play golf all through his childhood and teen years. A friend of mine started playing as a teenager, played golf in the highest German amateur golf league for a few seaons, and still plays in our ladie's team. She has played golf competetively for more than 30 years now, yet the best handicap she ever got down to was a 3.something. She says, she probably started too late to get really good at it. I also know a few professional athletes (mostly football players) who started golf after ending their professional careers and got very invested in it. They did manage to get down to single figures quickly, but there it seems to stal for them as well.
I am not saying it can't be done (even if no one had ever done it before I would not say it cannot be done, someone always has to be the first one), I am just curious, if somebody actually knows someone who started golf as an adult and who still has made it to scratch player.
