Following the theory that investing 10,000 hours - you can do anything, a commercial photographer has given himself 8 years to make a PGA event and make the cut.  Starting at age 30 never having played a round of golf in his life.  ...That's bold.

His blog is here - http://thedanplan.com/ and why you want to read it is his posts from 1/20/2014 about his experience at Oceanside.  He worked with Steve Ziff (mentioned by others here) and covered it in 2 blog postings.

Good stuff.