Lately, I’ve been playing a lot of rounds on Birthplace (St. Andrews) under near-ideal conditions and getting scores that are quite a bit lower than usual for me. The beginning of a new year is a time for reflection, so it got me to wondering: What are the best and worst rounds I’ve had so […]
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Updates in GC 5.1
The latest release of the Game Caddie, version 5.1, corrects a problem with the Caddie 3 worksheet and gives you greater control over how the Wind Rolls menu works. In the previous version (5.0), the ability of the All in One menu to perform second lie rolls had accidentally been turned off for Caddie 3. […]
2022 Open Championship: Rd 1 Results
This is the second in a series of posts about playing Birthplace using Game Caddie 5.0. The first post described how to set up the the Game Caddie for a replay of the 2022 Open Championship on this course. Today’s post provides a comparison of round 1 results for the actual event and my simulated […]
Setting Up a Replay of the 2022 Open Championship
This post is the first in a series describing a replay of the 2022 Open Championship at St. Andrews (Birthplace), which took place from July 14-17, 2022. The actual field consisted of 156 players of which 83 made the cut at Even par. The course conditions were “firm and fast.” As described in an SI […]
Putting Probabilities for ATG Players
In a previous post, I explained how my Putting Probability Tool works. Since then, I have calculated probability data for all 144 golfers from the original All-Time Greats set and made an updated version of the tool (v.1.006) available on my Downloads page. The tool is an Excel spreadsheet, which means you can manipulate and […]
GC 5.0: Setting Day Conditions
Based on user feedback, a few slight changes have been made to the Conditions tab. Now, instead of typing in a Pin Number and Course Conditions, you can just point-and-click. In addition, the Course Condition roll values for fairway (FW) and green (G) will be filled in for you. Here’s a partial screenshot of the […]
GC 5.0: Miscellaneous Tools
Besides the new Game Configuration and Wind Rolls menus, Game Caddie 5.0 comes with several tools not seen in earlier versions. This post describes how to use them. The first two tools we’ll look at are the Tree Bounce and Scramble Adj. buttons, as shown below: Let’s start with the Tree Bounce tool. This optional […]
Managing Wind in GC 5.0
There are four wind settings in Game Caddie 5.0. You select the one you want using the Configuration Menu at the start of play or anytime you want to make a change. Typically, though, you would keep the same setting for an entire round. This post describes in detail what the different wind settings do. The […]
The Thinking Behind GC 5.0
With version 5.0, the Game Caddie continues to move away from its original design concept that was first featured in GC 1.0. Those early versions of the Game Caddie tried to ensure that the user could type anything they wanted into cells. If the user violated the ‘rules’ of the Excel program (e.g., by entering […]
Getting Started with GC 5.0
The first time you use Game Caddie 5.0 you will want to open the Configuration Menu. You can do this in one of two ways: (1) press CTRL + O or (2) click the Configuration Settings button from any Caddie tab. It’s adjacent to the All in One Menu button at the lower right of […]