Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
It’s certainly a harder watch than golf.
I’m equally bad at both though.
I’m equally bad at both though.
Agreed.Having played both to a good club level I do not think I could seperate the two in terms of difficulty.
At least with snooker you are not stood over the ball in a force 3 gale and it chucking down with rain with just 40 seconds in which to play the shot.
A perfect game of snooker is breaking off, potting a red on the break, be on the black, then score 147. Then rinse and repeat for each frame until you win the match. Except you can't due to the alternate breaks.As @Crow mentioned, if a perfect game of golf is 18 shots, and a perfect game of snooker is 147, well im pretty sure ive seem a number of 147s, despite the tiny pool of participants in snooker.
Ive never seen anyone be on track for a perfect game of golf past the first tee shot...
Switch on the Olympics - summer and winter - and see what hard individual sports look like. As just said above combat sports, tennis, even stuff like fencing is technically crazy difficult at the highest level and snooker, while no doubt difficult, is played by fat blokes in perfectly repeated conditions. It’s hard Shaun but have an actual look at yourself ?
I find ALL sports difficult.
As inferred by another as yet only seen in North Korea.
p.s. a truly perfect score/break in snooker is a 155, once scored by Alex Higgins.
First visit is the break. It's never been done.I disagree, the potential free ball is entirely out of control of the perfect player. Lets agree a perfect frame is total clearance at highest scorable value at first visit... again witnessed regularly...
You don't choose where to put your golf ball either do you?? It's exactly the same thing. Putting it in position makes the next shot easier. That applies equally to both.That is exactly the point I was getting at - it isn't at all! In snooker you don't pot the red and then pick up the cue ball and put it somewhere else on the table. You have to make the pot and then make sure you leave the cue ball in position for a colour.
All I know is if I spent the hours practicing snooker that I have golf I would be a much better snooker player
I never play snooker, maybe play pool a couple of times a year. I play golf every week (when allowed). I still somewhat agree with Hovis - if I played snooker every week for the next 3 months I think I'd be at least as good at it as I am at golf, if not better. Golf just has far more variables which is what makes it harder.I don’t want to come across as being disrespectful, but how do you know that’s the case?
The only conceivable answer I can think of is that you think you’re hopeless at golf because I don’t see otherwise how you could know for sure you’d be better at snooker! That’s somewhat tongue in cheek, but my point is that practicing snooker a lot doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get good at it unless your technique is good and your eye for the potting angle is good too.
Unless you have a very good cue action, controlling the cue ball is going to be very very hard indeed. Most players get found out at a certain point as their cuing isn’t good enough, much the same as golf, if you’re not cuing absolutely straight, you’ll put unintended spin on the ball and then your control is diminished. You can’t fluke a 50 break, I’d say someone that can consistently make a 50 break is equivalent to a single fig golfer. Someone who has made a few is equivalent to someone that has shot a few rounds in the 70s.
Pool is to snooker what crazy golf is to golf.I never play snooker, maybe play pool a couple of times a year. I play golf every week (when allowed). I still somewhat agree with Hovis - if I played snooker every week for the next 3 months I think I'd be at least as good at it as I am at golf, if not better. Golf just has far more variables which is what makes it harder.