APBA Golf Master Game and GC novice, IDJESTER, has created a second “practice” video in which he plays a few holes by himself. He has asked me to provide feedback, so that he and those watching can improve their skills. This post will do just that. In this video, he once again gets most things […]
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FW Accuracy at Peachtree
I recently finished a replay of the 2021 PGA TOUR Championship held at East Lake Golf Club (Peachtree). Afterwards, I began to wonder what factors matter most for performance on that course among real-life professional golfers. DataGolf has an interesting Radar Plot tool that lets you see the predictive power of five golfer attributes for […]
Do Wider Fairways Benefit Short & Accurate Golfers?
I recently came across an interesting DataGolf article which asks, “Who benefits from wide fairways?” The logic was a little difficult for me to follow, but I’ll do my best to summarize the premise and conclusions without delving too deep into the details. The author set out to examine the counterintuitive claim by some golf […]
GC 4.1.1: Live Tutorial Tonight
IDJESTER and I have decided to do a LIVE Game Caddie tutorial tonight (Wed., May 11) at 7pm EDT on his YouTube Channel. Last week, we did a LIVE demo with me operating the GC controls. Tonight, IDJ will take the reigns, and I’ll coach from the gallery. We believe this will help him and […]
Six Tips on Planning Shots
One of the many advantages of using the GC to play the APBA Golf Master Game is that it makes shot planning so much easier. Almost all the available information can be found on the Caddie tab, if you know where to look. W/I – Shot Planner (Pin-CL) Let’s start with Wood and Iron (W/I) […]
GC Learning Video with IDJESTER
This past weekend, GC novice IDJESTER made a two-hole “practice” video. He has invited me to provide feedback, so that he and others can learn how to use it. From my standpoint, his video is tremendously helpful, because it shows me where new users might get confused. I am very grateful for his willingness to […]
2021 PGA TOUR Championship Replay: Final Results (Pt. 2)
This is the second of two posts on my replay of the 2021 PGA TOUR Championship. Yesterday’s post described the actual tournament and the results of the replay in round-by-round fashion. Today’s post provides a closer statistical comparison and explores the significant impact of putting factors. As with any simulated tournament, the results are always […]
2021 PGA TOUR Championship Replay: Final Results (Pt. 1)
This is the first of two posts describing a replay of the 2021 PGA TOUR Championship event played at East Lake Country Club (Peachtree). A summary of the actual tournament is followed by highlights and scores for each of the simulated rounds. The post concludes with a brief comparison of the simulated results to the actual […]
Rules and Refs
Today, the PGA Tour announced that an “inadvertent error” by a referee on Day 1 of the Wells Fargo Championship at TPC Potomac would not result in a change to Sergio Garcia’s score. On the 10th hole Thursday, Garcia had hooked his tee shot into a red penalty area. According to rule 18.2, a ball […]
Strokes Gained: What We’ve Learned
This is the first in a new category of posts you’ll find on this site: Golf History & Research. As a long-time baseball fan and member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), I am dismayed that something similar doesn’t exist for golf. Not only does baseball have the wonderful SABR website, where among […]