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 […]
GC 4.1.1 Demo Video Now Available
Tonight, IDJESTER and I talked about how the GC has evolved over the past year and where it’s headed. You can expect even more automated features in future updates and, perhaps, some AI functionality. We also used GC 4.1.1 to play two holes with Scottie Scheffler (2021) and Patrick Reed (2020) on Magnolia. “The Jester” […]
Does Wind Affect GIR%?
It would be logical to assume that the more wind there is, the harder it would be to reach a green in regulation (GIR). But as they say, it’s an empirical question. Thankfully, we have some APBA data to look at. Let’s begin with my entire dataset, which now consists of 19,746 holes. Here’s the […]
Live Demo: GC 4.1.1
There will be a live, online demo of Game Caddie 4.1.1 this Wednesday at 7pm EDT. Veteran GC users may recall the series of videos IDJESTER and I did about a year ago, using GC 2.X. These attracted thousands of views on his YouTube channel and mine. (They have been removed from my channel, since […]
Poll Results: Aiming Adjustment
On Friday, I posted a poll asking readers: Do you think you should subtract 5 yards of distance for every 15 yards you aim on W/I shots? The post had 24 views as of early Sunday night. Here are the results: Ten people voted; nine of them think you should subtract 5 yards of distance […]
APBA Wish List Addendum
GC user, Gary Prince, has something he’d like to add to the APBA Wish List : an 18-hole course using satellite images. I “wish” I’d thought of that first! How cool would that be? Gary created this awesome APBA-like rendering of hole #1 at TPC Sawgrass using GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program): For purposes of […]
Bluegrass7 Shot Locator Tool Now Available
This is a follow-up to an earlier post about hole #7 at Bluegrass, which has two centerlines (CL’s). One of those also has diagonal gridlines as opposed to square ones, making it more challenging to locate the ball. In that post, I mentioned that I had created a tool that can help you locate your […]
A Question About Aiming
A long-time GC user asked me via email today to weigh in on an issue being discussed elsewhere in the APBA community. He said, “An interesting question was posed on the TGA Tour FaceBook page. Do you subtract 5 yards for every 15 yards you aim?” As my GC friend correctly pointed out, the APBA […]
Is It Luck, a Curse, or Chance?
In a previous post, I looked at whether the GC Dice Rollers produce truly random results. In this one, I ask: What is the likely distribution of dice rolls in a round of APBA Golf? Will the dice rolls be fairly evenly distributed or will certain numbers appear quite a lot more or less than […]
APBA Wish List
By now, it should be obvious that I love the APBA Golf Master Game. It’s smart, it’s fun, it’s (mostly) realistic, and it lends itself to endless analysis and speculation. What more could you ask for in a board game? Well, here’s the beginning of my wish list. If APBA ever gets around to updating […]