To put in perspective just what level of play golfers in Alaska really achieve, take a look at the Nevada Open that started Tuesday.

Names of the pros in the tournament will purposely be left out, because they are no-name pros. Even if they did make the big show someday, you would’t remember that they were in the Nevada Open once. This is a tournament in which last year’s winner picked up $28,000 for his trouble and then failed to crack $6,000 in earnings on the Canadian Tour.

Still, notable names from the PGA Tour like Robert Gamez or Tom Lehman have won the Nevada Open.

Tuesday, on a course called the Palms, where single-digit handicaps routinely struggle to break par, one pro carded nine birdies and an eagle. That means he was under par on more than half the holes. That player has competed in two PGA Tour events and missed the cut both times. He finished with 64 Tuesday and sits in second, because some other guy produced a 62.

Think about that the next time you shoot 82 and realize a pro who has never played in a PGA Tour event and may never do so is capable of beating you by 20 shots.

It’s humbling, to say the least, to realize how good pro golfers really are. Imagine if Jordan Spieth showed up at the Nevada Open. He would probably shoot about 57 and laugh at how easy the course was. No, I am not joking.