hi, im 14 and my golf handicap is 6, do you think i have a good chance of making it on the european tour?

Posted: May 11th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Travel For Disabled | Tags: , , , , , , , | 8 Comments »
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8 Comments on “hi, im 14 and my golf handicap is 6, do you think i have a good chance of making it on the european tour?”

  1. 1 MBU said at 10:33 am on May 11th, 2011:

    Sorry to disappoint you but the chances are slim and believe me , has got nothing to do with you .
    First of all , you have to go to Q school , stage 1 . 2 rounds , top 30 and ties make it to stage 2 . At stage 2 you compete against all the pros from the lower tours ( i.e. Challenge Tour, Tartan Tour etc) and the pros from the European tour who have lost their card that year and who are exempt to go through stage 1 . Top 15 and ties make it .
    Then even if you do make it is not guaranteed you will get a game on Tour because there’s only about 150 entries and there’s 120 pros currently playing on Tour , plus the exemptions ( i.e Tour winners ,sponsors invites etc ) .and it will cost you more to go to these events then you could possibly win unless you’re extremely talented and have a good back up in terms of sponsorship .Unfortunately , golf has become an extremely competitive sport .

  2. 2 Matt M said at 10:59 am on May 11th, 2011:

    To give you an idea at how much you need to improve, the average handicap on the euro tour is about +6. The other gentleman was correct in saying that competition has gotten incredibly tough the last dozen years. Ernie Els was a scratch golfer at the age of 14 I remember him saying in an interview with Gary Player some years ago.

    If you have a coach/instructor and either a sponsor (or a # of sponsors) or a lot of money to work with, then it’s worth a try. If not, it make it much more difficult for you. Then again, look at a guy like Ian Poulter. He made it the hard way – he played his way up through the club pro ranks. I believe he was an assistant at a number of different clubs in the 90′s and really grinded his way up to the top levels of golf.

    If I were you, I’d practice like hell from 150 yds / meters and in. Remember, anyone can hit the long ball and quite a few can hit great iron shots, but not everyone can get it up and down from 150 and in. That’s where you improve your scores and that’s the difference between the tour pros and the scratch golfers out there.

    It also wouldn’t hurt to practice at a tough track. Learn to score on a hard golf course, and it will make the rest of the courses easy.

    Another school of thought would be to play both a hard course as well as an easy course from time to time. It’s kind of like a sprinter training for the Olympics by running downhill to get used to moving ones legs faster (easy course) or running with an open parachute to build strength & endurance (hard course).

    I hope this helps! Good luck!

  3. 3 c g +1 said at 11:55 am on May 11th, 2011:

    Do you have a good chance? No. You have a chance, just like anyone else. If you want to play on any Professional tour, be prepared to shoot in the 60s on the hardest courses 4 days in a row. In the case of PGA Tour Q school, be prepared to do it as many as 12 rounds to get through all stages. European Tour very similar. And most of these courses you will be playing for the first time. Or at least the first time in competition, where the set-ups are much different. If you can do that, you can play for a living. If you can’t do that, it is still a game you can enjoy your whole life!

  4. 4 tcmae said at 12:19 pm on May 11th, 2011:

    Well if you want to make it pro on the tour, I recommend going the the US, and try attending the IJGA, the International Junior Golf Academy in Hilton Head, South Carolina, in the USA where Tiger’s coach, Hank Haney is the head instructor. It’s a full academy with academics in Heritage Academy, and you can finish high school there, and you live in house dorms with other roomates that are students also, and house parents. Junior golfers who attend this academy, are all aspiring golfers that want to play college golf, and get a scholarship, and hopefully go pro. There are junior golfers that come all over the world in this academy, like some from Europe, and from China. The best way to play in the European Tour, or any tour like the PGA Tour is to play college golf, and play college golf here in the US. There is a show that shows life in the IJGA, it’s on the Golf Channel, I’m not sure if there’s Golf Channel there, where ever you are, and the show is School of Golf: HIlton Head Island. For more information about the IJGA, and the show, the websites are below in the sources.

  5. 5 dennis w said at 12:57 pm on May 11th, 2011:

    finish school and then go to college and play golf if you can .get a good education also .if that’s not possible. you have to play official tournaments all over that will tell you a lot .and you need money in your count to pay for everything .

  6. 6 Adela S said at 1:47 pm on May 11th, 2011:

    Of course, but you ensure you’ll not delay you study.

  7. 7 Tirata B said at 2:03 pm on May 11th, 2011:

    Your willing would come true soon, if you have been trying to more gain experiences from the local tournament first, then to pass qualifying some professional tournament, and to claim the country rank. However, you would have to use much more money for this arrangement. So, if you could go into a golf team-having school, it is excellent for your first foot step.

  8. 8 bluenose123 said at 2:43 pm on May 11th, 2011:

    You have a high chance of becoming a scratch handicapper
    but I think thats it

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