This reminds me of a blog I read a few years ago called "Scratch to Scratch". The point of the exercise was to go from being an ultrabeginner golfer to a par golfer in a year of serious practice and training.

Here's the about page from his blog: http://breakparblueprint.com/blog/about-2/

That is apparently, his new blog migrated from the original, found here: http://scratchtoscratch.wordpress.com/

The big thing was the time and effort investment: over 70,000 practice balls, and 2,000 hours in a year (that's close to a full-time job).

He actually ended up writing a book about it:

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Hack-Golfers-Challenge-Break/dp/...