PGA Tour Driven .. What it takes to get to the top .

In this post I want to focus on more the process that all the guys i talk about endure . It seems very glamourous to be a Pro golfer on tour but dont be fooled into thinking its just as simple as showing up and signing a scorecard filled with red numbers ! ... it takes a lot . Mentally , Physically , Technically , and Emotionally . So lets take a look at some guys on tour who have been gracious enough to have the public take a sneak peek into what it took for them to get to the top . And what  it takes for them to stay there .

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Article Excerpt of Vijay Singh 

ON A BREEZY WEDNESDAY MORNING, IDEAL FOR HIS purposes, Vijay Singh arrives at the practice ground. "I'm going to chip first," he says. (Third, he means, having already worked out and putted at his Ponte Vedra Beach home.) "My green might even be too fast right now," he says. "So nice to putt, though. The ball does not bounce."

Singh and another man are alone on the back tee at the Tournament Players Club, actually in an alcove off the tee (the backroom behind the backroom).

"Although it looks like I'm just chipping," Vijay says after a couple of dozen balls, "I'm doing different things with each shot." From the spot he has selected just below a practice green, he chips and chips in silence. "I'm trying to figure out why those balls wouldn't check last week. I don't know why." Now, a ball curls up to the cup and falls in. "There are so many times you hit it and you don't like it, and it goes in," he says. Not the next one he holes or the next, but the one after that prompts him to say, "That's the shot I was talking about. It went in, but it wasn't what I wanted."

Shifting over into a shallow bunker, he says, "I'm going to go back and forth until they're the same," and he does. Whether he's chipping off the ground or the sand, the outcomes, even the English, become uniform. "I'm trying to hit as close to the ball as possible," he tells caddie Paul Tesori, who has just pulled up in a cart. "I'm trying to land it on the damn green, Paul. Did that one check? There. One check and a roll. That's perfect."

Like adding weights to a machine, Singh moves to an upslope. "This is different," he says. "This is hard work. Here's where the broken legs and the sore backs and the aching hips come from." Soon, he is sweating. "I guarantee you, 95 percent of the players can't do this, swing uphill like this and still get to the left side in balance. I've got to rest."

But he doesn't rest. He takes a swig of juice, inhales two small bags of potato chips, and segues straight into a killer drill of coming to a complete stop after each section of his swing, until the last grunted piece produces barely a 50-yard slap. Like Seve Ballesteros as a boy, Singh can do a lot of different things with a 3-iron.

"My first clubs were a 9-iron and a 7-iron," he says. "Until I got a full set at 12, I whacked those babies around."

"Are you going to hit some drivers?" Tesori asks.

"I promised myself I'd hit 50 drivers," Singh says. "Let's hit 52 drivers. A deck of cards."

These too, he tees up on the upslope. "Get those legs moving," he tells himself.

Almost four hours have passed, not an especially long session for Singh. At times you could see the effort. At times you could see the joy. "Last ball," he announces, pounding number 52 into the clouds.

"What do you think?" he says.

Three things. That confidence doesn't come from winning. That winning comes from confidence. And that confidence comes from hard work.

"That's very, very true," Singh says softly. "It doesn't come on a plate, does it? You have to work for it. If you do all of this practice, then, when you get on the course, it's there. You don't have to think about it. In fact, if you have to think about it, it almost can't be done."

Then he says, "I think it's Starbucks time."

On that note , I am going to leave you guys with a video of who some say is the inventer of practice ... Ben Hogan