In my experience, an often overlooked and underused strategy is hitting an iron off the tee on par 4’s and 5’s. The tendency is to go with a driver or another wood in order to get as much distance as possible. While you might not go as far off the centerline (CL) with an errant […]
GCRB Tip: Starting a New Round
If you are tracking tournament stats using the Game Caddie Record Book (GCRB), you need to make a couple of edits to the database when you start your second, third, or fourth rounds. If you don’t do this, the batch report won’t give you the next round’s Combined Stats report and the Tournament Summary report […]
Request for Courses and Reviewers
Game Caddie 4.0 comes with 31 APBA courses already set up for you. To use any of them, all you have to do is load it with the Import Course button on the desired Course tab. To play, you must have the actual APBA boards for that course. Periodically, I release updates to the GC […]
GC Tip: Club Maximums
The APBA Golf club boards contain information about shot restrictions for working-the-ball (WTB) and tree clearance (TC), but sometimes you have to check multiple boards to find a club that will work. Fortunately, the Game Caddie pulls all this information together into one chart. If you use the All in One Menu, you can access […]
Do All-Time Greats Putt Better?
In a comment to my recent post “Are There Putting Patterns?” ishmail66 speculates that my APBA average putting scores (1.57/hole) may be slightly lower than those of real-life pros from the past couple of seasons (1.61/hole), because my dataset probably has quite a few All-Time Greats (ATG) included in it. He’s not wrong. The dataset […]
Are There Putting Patterns?
For some time, I have believed that par 3’s in APBA are more difficult to one-putt than par 4’s or par 5’s. I reasoned that it has to be harder to get the ball closer to the pin on a par 3, since there aren’t really any short approach shots involved (a few 100-yard par […]
Hitting Through Trees
In some cases, the Master Game rules are not explicit about how to handle certain scenarios. Since their publication, the game’s designer and others have attempted to clarify how some of these situations should be dealt with. This post is my take on how to handle hitting through trees. The Master Game rules are clear […]
Tendencies of Today’s Bombers
[Ed. Note: This post by ishmail66 is in response to an earlier post, “Tendencies and Probabilities” by me.] Understanding the Left and Right tendencies of a player can really help hitting the smaller greens on some courses and getting it close to the pin on others. I’ve also noticed something else with the more recent […]
Chipping Tool
In his recent post, Scott (smohler9) discussed the importance of roughly understanding the odds when planning shots. I want to take that a step further and look at Approach shot tendencies based on lie and the player’s Average I. While the Average I bonus does not apply to Approach shots, Player Result Numbers (PRNs) […]
GC 4.1 Preview
The next significant update to the GC, version 4.1, is in the works. Among other things, it will contain some enhancements to the All in One Menu. Currently, the All in One Menu recognizes the type of lie you have and applies any effects for you automatically. But it doesn’t enforce any club or shot […]