 Asians are about to take over professional golf very very soon or at least the women will first yeah There's a lot of discussion of this topic on the internet right now because 13-year-old Jaden soon Andrew Just became the youngest kid to ever qualify for the qualifying round of the US Open and to do that He had to beat out Andy Zang's record on that same week Andrew Roe Zang in her very first pro tournament after leaving USC to go pro Andrew for golf one a half million dollars Nobody has done that in the women's world in 70 years since 1951 So a lot of people on the internet had a bunch of posts and a lot of discussion a lot of debate about like yo Why are Asians so good at golf? And if this trend continues are Asians gonna take over golf a lot of people say that Asian women have already taken over women's golf All right guys, we're gonna go through the reasonings Listen, we are not golf experts, but we did do some research. I have been exposed to golf We like ourselves some driving rains a little pup pup golf, but I do know a thing or two So we're gonna go through the reasons you let us know what your thoughts down below if we missed anything especially So please hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot-pot boys I think we have to acknowledge right off the rip that the greatest golfer of all time Andrew Tiger Woods is half Asian Right. So is it his Asian side or his black side that made him great at golf? I don't know Jason Day is also half Asian. There's been so many people chun in G I believe there was a girl who started there was a woman who won in 1988 that sparked the whole craze in South Korea Particularly for women. Obviously, there's Michelle. We VJ Singh Who is Fiji in India? And he was the top ranked player in the world at one point in 2004 There's KJ Choi 70% of the recent winners in the LPGA tournament winners were Asian Whether they were playing for America or their mother country But long story short Andrew Jaden Soong said I think golf is pretty cool because it's one of those sports where size doesn't really matter I mean, it definitely does matter, but just not nearly as much as baseball football Basketball or something else. It's really just how strong mentally you are. Is that one of the hugest reasons? Well, I had to look it up. I think that Size in golf obviously matters less It does matter obviously the power of your swing if you can hit it very far Leverage, right? Right, but no, you do not have to be a Gigantically huge buff guy and you're not going up against opponents. You're not trying to overpower another man Obviously those kind of traits of golf do play in the Asians favor. Let's be honest So let's go through other reasons why Asians might be so good at golf moving forward and maybe David in the next decade And a half who knows maybe maybe men's golf is is dominated by Asian guys It's true. I mean basketball football in particular heavily physicality related Soccer you can be short and good at soccer Messi is considered one of the best players ever I think he's only five seven baseball you could be short to and then in golf like you said You know, we're gonna get into the mechanics of golf later But basically long story short Andrew Do you think it's true that a lot of Asian parents do not want their kids to play team contact sports in America? Yeah, for sure I think that especially things like football are pretty much canceled out of like 98% of Asian families CTE bones breaking being killed Whatever I think basketball sometimes is discouraged by some Asian families because they're like well How far can you go when basketball you have to be very tall and athletic and also like? Oh, it's like, you know, I don't know only like like You know bad schools are better at basketball Basically people who play a lot of basketball don't care about school and that's a stereotype and then obviously there's also things like tennis and golf Which I see a lot of Asians going into as far as sports I think obviously team sports are very very important for a person's development So if I was an Asian parent and I was really against contact sports I would at least put my kid into soccer baseball in golf or tennis if not obviously I love basketball and maybe a little bit of football But I think it really depends right if you're trying to raise a kid to go pro That's completely different than putting your kid in a sport to learn life skills, right, right I'm not saying that you couldn't go pro and learn life skills But let's just say if you put your kid heavy in a basketball or football your kids probably not gonna go pro But they might learn a lot of life skills depending on how they play the game Andrew This is from a Asian golf blog Okay, he says my thoughts on why many Asians pursue golf Typically Asian and Asian Americans are portrayed as weak feeble side bench types of athletes Oftentimes potentially great Asian athletes may get not get the playing time they deserve Due to these assumptions and stereotypes from coaches and scouts Golf on the other hand is an individual sport in which this subjectivity never comes into play Basically everybody plays at the first hole at the same level and they do not have to depend on anybody else to achieve Literally just their score on the course is their score on the course and that's how you determine if someone's good or not Exactly off their scores. Yeah, no and it makes sense I would say that's why a lot of like and obviously golf is very expensive So it plays into like if Asians do have a lot of money, you know a lot of Asian families do well They have the means and the resources to fund their kids golf career I think if you really think about the pooling as well Andrew If golf is a sport for rich people because you have to start getting on the 18 holes very young, right? Then your competition pool is only other rich kids Essentially, right? So you don't have to go against anybody who's like fighting to like do this for their life to feed their family or anything Typically some people in that field. I guess they already come from like what wealth or old money or some type of means, right? Some amount of you know, well-offness. Yeah, so Andrew to address the I guess the Oversized success that Asian women have had in Asian golf versus men in men's golf Andrew They're saying that the Academy system in Asia is very female centric So interestingly enough due to the way the sponsorship money works and a lot of like rich company CEOs Wanting to play rounds of golf with different golfers They would rather play rounds of golf and this sounds super patriarchal with female golfers than with male golfers And this is like for the CEO of Sony or whatever. Yeah, and I think here's the thing It's because I guess golf Especially women's golf. It's kind of like women's tennis where a lot of the women who are really good at it and very athletic or Exceed at golf. They still have like very nice like Womenly figures, you know, and they still look like models like a Michelle We it's like even though she does have strength to her. It's not like she had these huge Shoulder muscles and she was super ripped compare it a little bit to tennis or volleyball in that sense, right? Yeah, they look they still have really good figures, which is still very attractive So as long as the women at these sports are look very attractive, it can draw in some sponsorship money I think it's a little bit like tennis in the sense that you you could argue that there's more sponsorship money on the female side Then even for the male so no, I think it's a lot closer for sure and also not to mention that a woman's LPGA course is actually a thousand yards shorter than a man Yeah, I heard that the women's game and like I said guys, I don't bat a thousand I don't really know golf that well, but I definitely did my research It's a much more technical Accuracy game whereas in the men's game if you can hit the ball 400 yards off the tee Like that gives you a huge advantage because you're already like cutting down your swings that you need to complete it Somebody said that also in South Korea for example The reason why South Korean women have dominated such more so much more than the men is the men have to go to two Years mandatory military service where all of their golf skills are almost guaranteed to atrophy, right? I also think golf is Especially if you want to talk about avoiding contact and avoiding like potentially broken bones And you still want to go into a sport already that is going to basically Narrow down the sports that a For example, like a pretty woman or a well-off woman wants to join You know I'm saying like a lot of like even if a girl can play basketball and football and soccer Maybe they just don't even like consider it for sure I mean there's a little cultural trend guys Let's be honest, you know, there's the way you want the world to work in the way the world in a way I can see more women by a ratio basis wanting to play golf Relative than men because men also play a bunch of other sports Yeah And actually the truth is as well Andrew until you make the top five percent of pro golfers You're generally like struggling to make money, but you you don't you're it's a very top-heavy sport a little bit Like tennis there's a lot of pros, but only a select few pros make a ton of the money Somebody said in Asia everybody well everyone wealthy puts their kids in the Gulf in the US It depends even wealthy families sometimes let their kids go into very blue collar sports For example, Johnny Manziel was from a very wealthy old money oil family But he still tried really hard to make the NFL you would never see that in Asia Yeah, I could see that golf being pretty much the only sport that a rich person in Asia Would put their daughter through for example or or even potentially their son Yeah, because I started meeting a lot of rich Chinese kids later in my life And a lot of them were like yeah, I used to play basketball when I was young But then I realized golf is my calling and that is what my dad wanted me to do to network for our global conglomerate Yeah, yeah, no, there's a lot of networking and other benefits from doing golf as well. Somebody says in America Basically, you have to understand in America Nobody really plays soccer at any serious level which means that the serious soccer players have to go overseas to get good But most people do not even play at all the women are really high ranked In soccer for example in America, but the men's system doesn't even come close to the world's best So this is sort of pointing out at other gender imbalances For example in men's usa soccer versus women's usa soccer There's a huge gender imbalance in terms of global results Just like there is an imbalance between asian women and asian men. Oh in golf. Yes, that makes sense Somebody said in the u.s. A lot of young girls are actually pushed to play soccer softball basketball and volleyball So there is a more distribution of the talent pool right right as we were saying earlier Somebody said guys in general might dream of being something more conventionally masculine in the sports world Such as serng herngman or jeremy lin or some sort of mma fighter Whereas for golf for girls. It's more glamorous to be pretty and sophisticated and feminine in golf world And they're saying even if the girls fail and be just a semi pro or a low tier pro That status in asia will still allow them to marry a rich guy There are so many reasons guys Like i said, man, I was just going through the thread somebody uh, this goes back to the mechanics of the game andrew How much does it matter to be strong in golf? Because a lot of people were saying the women asian women are a lot closer to non asian women Than asian men are to non asian men in terms of generating power or lift off of the drive Um, yeah, I mean, I don't know if there's any truth to it But what I will say this is that it is said and this is just what I read that the asian women golf game is More about precision and asian female golfers tend to be extremely precise I heard even way more precise than non asian female golfers Um, somebody was saying in asia There are not enough coaches that can coach the new male style of golf where people are trying to hit it 400 yards off the initial drive If a lot of asians are only coached to hit the ball 250 yards They are already at 150 yard disadvantage already right off the first hit on a pro level So that is uh causing some difficulty for the asian guys to be hyper competitive and beat the Deshambos or the rories or whatever right? Somebody said different body types do play well in different sports for examples asians have shorter limbs Which is really great for power lifting records due to shorter arms asians also Disproportionately hold a lot of world gymnastics records. However for basketball It is very bad to have a short wingspan. Right, right, right Well, I mean that's true, right different populations. They they they tend to seem like they're better at different sports They have different different types of bodies. Hell. Yeah for sure. Um, andrew some people were saying Is there a different asian style play to golf somebody said I had no idea that asians have very long deliberate back swings So somebody was saying just like I can have an eye test and tell when a player is a pro japanese player coming to the mlb Because they're like body moves different Hmm That's really interesting. I had no idea. I did not know that this is a thing in golf But he does make sense andrew. I got a really interesting anecdote I noticed that a lot of pro players from japan Just lift their knees up really high for basketball because I found all these I used to play with a couple japanese guys that were really high tier College players in japan and they lift their knees up a lot like on jumpers. They just like lift their two knees up It's a very unique style of jumper. I've just personally never really seen it in america. Oh, all right, david All in all, I mean Are asians actually going to take over professional golf men and women's? What do we think? All right, I think that asian women are going to continue to dominate the LPGA I think asian women got it because think about it. Once you already took over 60 percent of something Why not take over 70 and once you took over 70 percent? Why not take over 75 percent? I wouldn't be surprised to see like in the future. It's 80 percent asian women No, honestly, I think I think there's a chance. Yeah, I think for asian men The situation is a little bit more complicated because if you think about it I think more and more asian guys are going to be able to qualify for the us open But in terms of winning it's going to be tough because I heard that even the white golfers are becoming 61626364 And really gigantic bodies because they're trying to overpower the course then out finesse the course So you're saying it's almost like The men's game could be becoming a little bit more like the mba with the three-point shot How people are just like, yo, I don't need a mid-range shot because i'm just going to launch this three from 30 feet Right. Do I need to snake the pick and roll when I can just hessie pull from 45 feet? Right, right, right. Um What do you think that asians are almost like the new wasps of the 1960s? It seems like asians really like victorian, you know, british isle culture because Golf was embedded in like 1467 in scotland. Yeah, it seems like asians almost take victorian era European culture more serious than american europeans or white americans or even european europeans in 2023 Yeah, I do think a lot of asian families and specifically like the upper middle class like well to do asian families That are oftentimes from all around asia though, including southeast asia. Yeah, they have thailand is also coming up But I think that basically asians are so much into luxury hierarchy status And they're not all about like the contact sports a lot of asian families, right? Although muay thai is an asian thing But you know in general, I think the majority of the populations that are winning the golf matches in thailand And the muay thai crowd are like different. Yeah, those are different segments of society Yeah, so asians really like nice things and golf is the nicest sport. So I think it's probably going to continue I think the guys will have a slower growth into dominating Male golf, but I do think that there will be more and more asian males in pro golf for sure moving forward. There's no doubt Anyway, so what's your recommendation to people with like an asian kid in america? Do you think that they should push them into golf? I think they got to at least take a look at it I think if you have the means and it's part of your life and you see some other benefits to it like Oh, it's great for spending time with my kid or it's great for networking Or if your kid is going to go into finance or like mergers and acquisitions and all that stuff that you definitely need to do that I'll say this though. If you want to command People in a more army like blue collar way I would say be like a forward in soccer or be like a point guard in basketball or be a qb in football If you want to just to learn how to command other non asian people in america How about just both we look at michael jordan dominated at basketball was actually pretty good at golf too And a lot of mba players golf a lot of football players golf is jr smith. Yeah, so guys maybe do both maybe maybe If if you come from a golf family you do golf But you expose them to basketball and if the kids play a lot of basketball expose them to golf if you can Anyways guys, let us know in the comments down below what you think could asians Actually dominate pro golf in the next 15 20 years I don't know. I'd like to see it. Why not until next time guys We out. Peace