What Is The Difference Between Basketball And Golf Persuasion Essay

Are you a person that likes excitement, and watching people do amazing things with a round ball that you can hold in your hands? Or, are you someone that likes to watch all the fortunes and misfortunes that can happen in a round of golf? Have you heard the great names of Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan? These men are said to be people who changed the sport they played in for all time. Both of these men are great athletes and they were very dedicated players. I am comparing these two because it’s amazing the different things you can accomplish in two completely different sports. Also, these players broke records and gained achievements that had either never been done, or very few people had accomplished in the sport.
The difference in the two sports that the athletes played (basketball and golf) is quite a big one. In basketball, the object of the game is if you are on offense you want to put the ball into the round hoop while you are being guarded by opposing players and you have a boundary you have to stay in. If you are on defense, you want to prevent the offense from scoring into the hoop and if a shot is made, you throw the ball from out of bounds and then you are on offense. In golf, you are not on a team you are playing for your own

self. In golf, you start on a spot called the tee box and you hit your ball from there. The hole is a few hundred yards away and you try to get the small white ball into the hole in the least amount of strokes possible. After you have completed all the holes (9 or 18 depends on the tournament or match), you add up your score to see what you got. There's this thing called par, and let's say the par is 72 and you got an 80 then you are 8 strokes over par, but you want to try and be below par.
Now we talk about the achievements of the athletes. In professional golf, there are tour wins and then there are tournaments considered to be major wins. If you win a major tournament, that is very good because it means you were the best in the world that week for that tournament. In basketball, there's the NBA championship and that is the one major win. One tournament all year, and whoever wins that is the best team in the NBA. So the wins are different, but they both are very good numbers for that sport.
Michael Jordan won a total of 6 NBA championships and both came back-to back-to back. Tiger Woods has won (he is still playing today) a total of 16 major championships. If Tiger wins one more, he will hold the record for most major wins. There is also this thing called a Grand Slam. This is where you win all of the majors for that year and there are four of the same majors every year. Tiger has never completed this accomplishment in one year but he has won four in a row so they kind of counted it, because he was the first to win four majors in a row. Now for Michael Jordan, he did some pretty amazing things too, he won 6 NBA championships as a Chicago Bull. The first three came in back-to back-to back years. Then, he retired for a year and a half. His first full season out of retirement they won the title and went on to go back-to back- to back again, so he did the challenge twice. Both of these win totals are a lot for the sport they play, both they both had many other achievements.
Before Tiger played golf, people knew the name of Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer, but there was just a bunch of really good golfers no one person really dominated the field. When Tiger came into the picture, he was the dominator at almost every tournament. He would shoot ridiculously low numbers at very hard courses and would sometimes just blow the other golfers out of the water for any contention of the tournament. Of course Tiger had tournaments when he didn’t do so well, but that was very rare for him when he was in his prime. Tiger changed the face of golf because he was so good that people that really didn’t know much about golf started watching and playing because they all wanted to be like Tiger. My dad has told me many stories about how good Tiger was and he has also showed me videos of tournaments he played well in because he so fond of Tiger. He admired Tiger’s love and determination towards the game.
Now on to Michael Jordan.

Michael was pretty much a Tiger, just playing a different sport. The thing about Michael is unique though, he wasn’t always a guy who could run circles around everybody, in fact Michael was cut from his high school varsity team. The thing different about Michael though from other people is he was so determined the next year in high school to blow everyone away, he did so much work that the next year he was the best on the team. Then, Michael went to college just one year before he entered the NBA draft. He was selected by the Bulls and he went through his NBA career dominating, because he just had the will and determination that he wanted to beat everyone on the court that he put tons and tons of work

in.
Another similarity was these athletes didn’t come from affluent families. Neither athlete grew up in a rich family that could give them whatever they wanted. They had to work and practice hard. They sometimes practiced without a basketball or golf club and instead they would use other things because they loved the sport and wanted to improve.
This is how Mr. Jordan and Mr. Woods changed each of their respective sports. They were one of the best athletes to go through each sport in a long time and they inspired millions of people that wanted to be like them.
The reason I chose these two athletes is that I want people to realize the difference in a sport, but that players can have the same impact as the other. These two players were just your average everyday guy, the thing that made them different was they had determination to be the best. They might have had different reasons for their motivation, but it came down to one thing; they were trying to achieve a common goal, and that was to be the best they could be. I chose these athletes because they are my favorites and even though I didn’t get to watch them when they were at their prime, I still think of them as inspiration to keep me motivated.