This is the first of two posts describing the setup of my 2023 PGA Championship replay. In this one, I cover the usual factors pertaining to Day Conditions as well as some of the specific challenges of playing Acorn Hill (Oak Hill Country Club – East Course). The actual tournament took place May 18 – […]
Selecting Holes to Measure Average Driving Distance
Game Caddie 6.2 offers two ways to measure Average Driving Distance. It will automatically calculate the Average Driving Distance for all non-Par 3 holes, and you can also select two holes to make a separate calculation. The PGA reports both stats, yet to my knowledge the LPGA only reports the stat that accounts for all […]
Åberg Owned It But Schenk Stank
In preparation for my next tournament replay, the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill, I have been logging a few practice rounds on Acorn Hill (par 70). The reason for doing this is to assess how the course plays in order to create the most realistic APBA replay possible. As such, I’m choosing both good […]
2022 Women’s PGA Championship: Replay Analysis
This post is the last in a 6-part series on my replay of the 2022 Women’s PGA Championship at Metro D.C. (Congressional Country Club’s Blue Course). The initial post detailed the day conditions, the rationale for choosing pin locations, and hole-length adjustments. All of these were chosen in order to more closely match the actual tournament. Later […]
2022 Women’s PGA Championship Replay: R4 Results
This post summarizes the final round of my APBA Golf replay of the 2022 Women’s PGA Championship at Congressional Country Club (Metro D.C.), par 72. Previous posts described the replay setup based on conditions for the actual tournament and the results for rounds 1, 2, and 3. The entire replay is being conducted using Game […]
Playing Around with Round Data
For a couple of years now, I have been sharing the results of my APBA Golf play on this site’s Downloads page. At the end of each month, I had been updating that Excel file with every hole I played by myself or with others. As I write this, there are stats for more than […]
2022 Women’s PGA Championship Replay: R3 Results
This post summarizes round 3 of my APBA Golf replay of the 2022 Women’s PGA Championship at Congressional Country Club (Metro D.C.), par 72. Previous posts described the replay setup based on conditions for the actual tournament, the results of round 1, and the results of round 2. The entire replay is being conducted using Game Caddie 6.1. […]
The Worst of 2023
In my last post I shared some highlights from 2023. In this post I cover the worst performances from that year. In both cases I used my copy of the Game Caddie Record Book, which contains all of my APBA Golf rounds dating back to June 2020. I’ve recorded 2,115 rounds since then, including those […]
The Best of 2023
Last year at this time, I looked at the Best and Worst rounds of APBA Golf I had played since I began keeping records in June 2020 using the Game Caddie Record Book. That was based on 1,332 rounds played, many of which were against real-life opponents, and so included their scorecard data as well. […]
2022 Women’s PGA Championship Replay: R2 Results
This post summarizes round 2 of my APBA Golf replay of the 2022 Women’s PGA Championship at Congressional Country Club (Metro D.C.), par 72. A previous post described the replay setup based on conditions for the actual tournament, and another post covered the results of round 1. The entire replay is being conducted using Game […]