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 […]
Category: Golf History & Research
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 […]
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 […]