Category: Tournaments & Replays

Play has wrapped up at Gopher Lakes (Hazeltine National) in round 3 of my All-Time Greats (ATG) tournament, and I couldn’t be happier. The 1st round took place at Yatch Club (Harbour Town), where Lee Trevino (1971) jumped into the lead with an 8-under 63. In round 2, Jack Nicklaus (1975) moved to the top […]

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 […]

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 […]

It had all the makings of an historically bad round, yet wasn’t. But it wasn’t pretty either–unless you mean pretty wild. Today’s round with Macdonald “Mac” Smith (1926) at Gopher Lakes was one of the most unusual I’ve ever played. It happened in the third round of my All-Time Greats (ATG) tournament. Smith began the […]

I recently completed a 45-player, four-round tournament at Congressional (Metro D.C.) using the Game Caddie. All players were from the APBA 1971 season card set. Here is a round-by-round summary of the event: Rd 1 – DeWitt Weaver led after the first day with a 68 followed closely by George Archer. Rd 2 – The […]

Almost two years ago, I began a four-round tournament using all 144 players in the APBA All-Time Greats (ATG) card set. During this past week’s hiatus, I finished round 2 at Badger Links with Jack Nicklaus (1975) atop the leaderboard at -10. Round 1 at Yatch Club was completed in the spring of 2021 with Lee […]

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 […]

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 […]

[This is an update to an earlier post on Round 1 and 2 results at Peachtree.]  Round 3: Pin at Location 1Wind Calm/Type-A and Course Conditions Soft Without Seeding: With winds calm and the course soft, Round 3, or moving day, saw driving accuracy improve from the previous round (57.1% vs. 60.5%), while greens in regulation […]

The 2016 Masters at Augusta National is often remembered for Jordan’s Spieth’s collapse in the final round. In 2015, Jordan had led wire-to-wire and won. In 2016, Jordan again led after 54 holes, and thus expectations for another Spieth Green Jacket were high. Conditions at the Masters at Augusta National in 2016 were challenging. Thursday […]