Some guys read the title must be laughing. “When you have one golf club, one ball, and you can be regarded as one golfer”. No, that is not true.

There are more things you should to have before to be a golfer. You can have hot golf equipment, and you may say your TaylorMade R9 do well. But that is not the whole thing. There are more you should know.

Generally there are two kinds of golfers in the field, one is professional, and the other is amateur. The road to the top is from amateur to professional. But pay attention, once you have the problem, it is not so easy for you to gain back the statue in the field again. So be careful.

Historically the distinction between amateur and professional golfers had much to do with social class. In 18th and 19th century Britain golf was played by the rich for pleasure. The early professionals were working class men who made a living from the game in a variety of ways: caddying, greenkeeping, clubmaking, and playing challenge matches. When golf arrived in America at the end of the 19th century it was an elite sport there too. Early American golf clubs imported their professionals from Britain. It wasn't possible to make a living solely from playing golf tournament golf until some way into the 20th century (Walter Hagen is sometimes considered to have been the first man to have done so).
 

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