Category: Tournaments & Replays

The 2nd annual APBA TOUR BATTLE ended in surprising fashion with 8th-seeded Chris Gotterup (2025) defeating no. 1-seed Nelly Korda (2025) at Jersey Pines (Pine Valley).   APBA Tour Battle II proved to be a classic with most matches going the full 18 and several going extra holes. Cameron Young played 3 matches, all going to […]

Tournament action for this replay began exactly four months ago on April 19, 2026. During that time I logged 252 rounds on Steel City (Oakmont), many of them fruitless efforts to break par. This post covers the results of Round 4 for both the actual event and the replay along with a wrap-up. See my […]

This post compares Round 3 of the 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont with my replay of it using Steel City (par 70). Previous posts have covered the replay setup and the results for Rounds 1 and 2.  Actual Results for Round 3 Friday narrowed the field. Saturday reshuffled it. Moving Day at most championships is defined […]

This post details round 2 of my 2025 U.S. Open replay at Oakmont (Steel City). It compares the results of the actual tournament with my replay through the first two days of the event. See previous posts for descriptions of the replay setup and the results of round 1. Actual Results for Round 2 Round […]

This post is the second in a series for my APBA replay of the 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont (Steel City). The first post established the central question of the championship: If Oakmont was not preventing players from reaching greens, where did the considerable scoring pressure coming from? Actual Results Looking at Round 1 of […]

This post is the first in a series for my replay of the 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont Golf Club near Pittsburgh, represented in APBA as Steel City. The series begins with a detailed look at the tournament setup and will continue with round-by-round recaps. The replay will use the Game Caddie (currently, beta version […]

This post compares the final round of my 2024 PGA Championship replay with the actual event. I also provide an analysis of how realistic the replay tournament results were using the current version of the Game Caddie (7.X). See the write-ups of rounds 1, 2, and 3 for additional context.     Round 4 Actual Results: […]

This post compares the results of round 3 in my 2024 PGA Championship replay at Bluegrass with those of the actual tournament at Valhalla. Previous posts have made similar comparisons for rounds 1 and 2 and covered the replay setup.  Actual Results: Moving Day Tightens the Screws Saturday at Valhalla delivered exactly what a major […]