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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5162609, member: 1969"]
Its complex.   What is the hardest to be great/elite at, or just hardest to be good or average.

There are really two skill sets that define athletics.
- Raw athletics - jumping, running, speed, agility, even pure size and strength
- Skill based athletics - hitting a ball, handling a ball etc.

If you don't have the elite raw athletic tools, there are some sports (or positions in certain sports) you can never be elite at.    But that shouldn't be a factor that makes it the hardest either.

Getting too golf -- there are many elite pro golfers that simply don't have the physical assets to be great at other pro sports...  but elite players from other pro sports don't have that same limitations if they want to play golf.   Of course they might not be any good at the skills required to play golf, but there are no raw athletic inhibitors that stop you from playing golf like other sports.    But should it be measured at the elite level?

Anyway all of the above to say, what sport is the hardest to get to at least above average or good at is perhaps the better way to look at things.

Rambling over.
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