Competitive Sports: Skills vs. Luck

After watching the Augusta Masters, I'm now convinced that in that crazy sport of golfing, luck plays a huge part. It's not in any way to diminish the role played by skills.

Those required by golf, like many other professional level sports can only be garnered over a lifetime and at great expense of time, frustration, money, raw talent and selfless efforts from the athletes.

Based on this, and assuming the best skills in the world, those must account for 25% of the total equation with 70% for bad luck and perhaps 5% for good luck.

Next time, I'll draw a comparison of Skills vs. Luck in sports that I like, follow and know pretty well.