How many golf balls should I hit per week to become a pro golfer?

All of them.

Funny. Pros talk about spending eight hours a day on the range sometimes. After he won the Masters Canadian Mike Weir was asked about his early pro career and he talked about being in Australia, far, far from home while on the Asian tour, staying at a driving range hours after it had shut down and turned off the lights. He just hit bucket after bucket out into the dark trying to perfect his swing.

arnie was the best wrote:

How many golf balls do I need to hit every week to become good enough to be a professional golfer? 100? 500? 1000?

100 a week? I hit more than that and I don't play well enough to enter my city tournament without embarrassing myself.

At least 500 balls/day. Plus many hours/day focused on chipping and putting.

In order to become a pro up to LRC standards, you actually have to measure the distance of all of your practice balls. When the total distance exceeds 100 miles and you do this weekly for 2 years, then you are ready to compete.

288, that should be enough to get you through 4 rounds from the championship tees. Maybe a few from the driving range too.

confusedreader23 wrote:

At least 500 balls/day. Plus many hours/day focused on chipping and putting.

Doesn't chipping and putting count as hitting balls to? I mean, you're not hitting them hard, but still hitting them.

Minimum of 1000.

I'm a firm believer that intensity if far more important than an arbitrary amount. Myself, I prefer to drive 50 balls at 95% intensity as often as possible.

I hit about 90 a week.

Twice that much if I play a full 18 holes.

There is no answer to this question. This sort of thinking got Malcolm Gladwell promoting (and misunderstanding) the 10,000 hour rule.

There is a guy who quit his job after reading Gladwell's book and planned out his 10,000 hours of training to become a golf pro. You can read about his progress here.

http://thedanplan.com/

I suggest you read Anders Ericsson's book and learn about deliberate practice.

I just do a few hits, and take long recoveries in between, focusing on my arm swing velocity.

There may not be any number that is sufficient if you lack talent, start too late in life, or are missing some other necessary factor.

Read about the guy with no golf experience who quit his job and planned to devote 10000 hours (inspired by Malcolm Gladwell) to becoming a professional golfer. He started in 2009 and planned to be a pro by 2016.

It doesn't look like it's working out for him-

https://theolympians.co/2016/07/02/dan-mclaughlin-and-his-10000-hour-journey-not-as-easy-as-you-might-think/

luv2run wrote:

There is no answer to this question. This sort of thinking got Malcolm Gladwell promoting (and misunderstanding) the 10,000 hour rule.

There is a guy who quit his job after reading Gladwell's book and planned out his 10,000 hours of training to become a golf pro. You can read about his progress here.

http://thedanplan.com/

I suggest you read Anders Ericsson's book and learn about deliberate practice.

This is inspiring! If I can hit balls for 15 hours a day every day, I can become a pro in 666.66666666666666666666666666666666666667 days, according t my calculator.

ya..... wrote:

I'm a firm believer that intensity if far more important than an arbitrary amount. Myself, I prefer to drive 50 balls at 95% intensity as often as possible.

Perhaps we need somebody to come up with a precise calculation of the optional intensity. We could call it critical velocity.

What is the optimum rate for hitting the golf balls?

One per minute? 100 per hour? More or less than this?

What about rate wrote:

What is the optimum rate for hitting the golf balls?

One per minute? 100 per hour? More or less than this?

Specificity says that you should hit a ball, walk a minute or so, then hit another one.

arnie was the best wrote:

How many golf balls do I need to hit every week to become good enough to be a professional golfer? 100? 500? 1000?

You'll know within a year of playing golf if you have a prayer at being a pro. After that, no amount of practice will help.