This past weekend, GC novice IDJESTER made a two-hole “practice” video. He has invited me to provide feedback, so that he and others can learn how to use it. From my standpoint, his video is tremendously helpful, because it shows me where new users might get confused. I am very grateful for his willingness to […]
2021 PGA TOUR Championship Replay: Final Results (Pt. 2)
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 […]
2021 PGA TOUR Championship Replay: Final Results (Pt. 1)
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]