Non golfer masters question

Why don't pro tennis players ace every serve? Why don't billiard pros make every shot?

Those are MUCH more "same" than any golf shot. In very much more controlled conditions.

Because they are human and the "perfect" swing/routine is almost impossible to replicate.

Most golfers will tell you that no two shots they have ever hit in their lifetimes have been exactly the same. Wind is the ultimate variable, of course. You can see how the last groupings today tore the scorecard up with the lack of a breeze today. But there are many other things that make the same shots different year-to-year, or even day-to-day. Lie, grain/cut of grass, footing, slope ---- all kinds of variables. Plus your body changes (muscles, eyesight, weight) every year. And as light as changes may be, they do make conditions different.

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Apr 6, 2018, 4:32 AM

Pin placement is huge for their approach shots. The greens don't always roll the same. The golfer doesn't always put well, whether it is their touch, or just not reading the greens well that day. Obviously weather can be a factor, but not yet in this Masters. Although many have played the course relatively a lot, there are still tons of situations they haven't been in out there on that course, so sometimes they make the wrong decision or just don't execute what they tried to do. The players themselves don't always play the same. They aren't machines. Sometimes they are more on than others. Sometimes they aren't hitting enough fairways on their drives and it's make it more complicated. That leaves them behind a tree, in a fairway bunker, or in the rough etc etc. This year the course has more rough and deeper rough supposedly. Supposedly 20 new trees were added on hole 15 alone. The course doesn't always play the the same like put put. Like I stated, they aren't machines. It's such a precise game. There are many other reasons too that I am sure others can go on and on about. As far the players being off or on, I guess it is like asking, how can a great QB like Tom Brady or Deshaun Watson have a bad a day and overthrow or underthrow a bunch of wr's? Why do great pitchers have days where they don't have their stuff or can't hit their spots?

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why don't pro bowlers get a strike every time?

i'm not saying they should be shooting -20 every round

well first, the greens are like green...

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There are so many variables, more than I will post..

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