Amateur Golfers Drawing Heat from Comments After Performances on Nationwide Tour

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Published: July 27, 2011

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It seems since John Peterson was close to winning the Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational last week in Columbus, Ohio, the young man from the LSU has received a boost to his ego.

Apparently, Peterson told Golf World Magazine that he "knew" he could beat all of these guys.

And that's not all the young man explained in the interview.

“The top guys in college, the top 20 or 30 guys, can beat the top 20, 30 guys on the PGA Tour,” Peterson said. “Maybe with the exception of two or three guys who are constantly up there, like a Matt Kuchar or Luke Donald … those top 20 college guys will beat those top 20 or 30 PGA Tour guys, if given the opportunity.”

Now these statements seem strange enough to be coming from an amateur anyway.

But to come after you had a one-shot lead and you ended up choking off the tee and bogeyed the last hole shows that perhaps you were not ready to beat all these guys out there.

Now it's one thing to have confidence after performing well on a bigger stage than in college. It's another to go around boasting that you and/or 20 of your peers could beat the top 20 guys on the PGA Tour.

PGA Tour player Scott Verplank did not think it a wise statement for Peterson to say. 

“It’s not 20 or 30 guys on tour,” Verplank said after hearing the comments. “It’s about 200 or 300 players out here who are just as good. That’s really not a wise statement. They also were playing on the Nationwide Tour. If you’re going to compare that with the PGA Tour, you’re making a mistake.”

Verplank makes a very valid point about it's not just the top 20 or 30 players on the PGA Tour.

Take last week's tournament, for example.

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