Golf Professional /Poker Players

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I must say that i am impressed with the golf category on the forum. I have noticed there are quite a few golf "experts" including quite a few Golf Professionals. I am a PGA Member from the Wisconsin Section and started playing poker about 3 years ago. I know that I can tee it up with members from my course and recive a very solid ROI but I actually would prefer to sit down to a 4 hour session of poker and risk more varience rather than play golf with very little varience. I also take solace in knowing that I can beat Phil Ivey more times in golf than he could beat me in poker (you can't go all in in golf!)

I am wondering what the draw is to poker related to the draw to golf. For me it is two things- I am a student of both games and they provide a great challenge to become proficient at, and money won is so much sweeter than money earned. With both I also find that the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know.

Anyone else find obvious parallels to both games?