Steel City gets the math right. That is the most important conclusion from my replay of the 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont. Played with APBA Golf’s Master Game rules, the course designer’s special instructions and Game Caddie’s “Modern” distance setting, Steel City produced a remarkably convincing statistical representation of one of the most difficult championships […]
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Career Vs Last 10 Power Rankings: 8/15/2026
Every Power Rankings post so far has run on my own logged rounds. This one doesn’t. Game Caddie user, Joe Barrett, allowed me to create Career and Last 10 Power Rankings — same formula, same methodology, using his recorded rounds. As I discuss below, his dataset is much better suited to a Career vs. Last […]
Career Power Rankings (8/13/2026)
APBA Golf recreates real professional rounds on cards, translating actual scoring, driving, and putting performance into a dice-driven simulation. Every card represents one player’s statistical output for a given season (more or less) — which means power rankings aren’t opinion polls, they’re math. Run the numbers across hundreds of cards spanning more than 150 years […]
How the Power Rankings Work
The Power Rankings take the golf stats I have collected playing APBA Golf and boil them down into a single score, so you can tell at a glance whose card is playing the best golf right now, and whose has been the best over the long haul. There are four kinds of Power Rankings I […]
Men’s Power Rankings: Top 10 (8/5/2026)
A little over six years ago, I began keeping records of my APBA Golf rounds–mostly played on my own but sometimes with others. In that time, I’ve compiled 3,868 of them with 1,100 different golfer cards. With all that data, I thought it might be fun to see who stacks up the best. If […]
2024 PGA Championship Replay: R2 Results
This post compares the actual results from round 2 of the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla with those from my replay at Bluegrass. It also takes an in-depth look at why Xander Schauffele, winner of the actual tournament, is performing so poorly in the replay. Previous posts have detailed the replay setup and round 1 […]
The Worst of 2025
I am not a superstitious person by nature, but there have been times playing APBA Golf where I’ve felt cursed by the dice roller. This seems to have happened a lot lately, as I muddle through some difficult rounds for my replay of the 2024 PGA Championship. Anyone who’s played APBA Golf more than a […]
The Best of 2025
As I look back on another year of APBA Golf and keeping records for more than five years, I realize I’ve hit a “ceiling effect” in several statistical categories, where it’s become increasingly difficult to surpass past best performances. Even though I logged an additional 512 rounds of stroke play (including those I played with […]
Course Difficulty Rankings for Men
It’s that time of year again where I begin to reflect on my APBA Golf playing experiences. In this post I share some course stats from all the rounds I’ve recorded using the men’s APBA cards (i.e., PGA players). I also offer my perspective on why some of the numbers are what they are. The […]
Playing Around with Round Data
For a couple of years now, I have been sharing the results of my APBA Golf play on this site’s Downloads page. At the end of each month, I had been updating that Excel file with every hole I played by myself or with others. As I write this, there are stats for more than […]