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ATG Masters Tournament Results

Jeff Siegel, an early adopter of the Game Caddie, has completed a four-round Masters tournament using 33 of the All-Time Great players at Magnolia (Augusta National). He began this project 18 months ago, in part, to learn the Game Caddie and Game Caddie Record Book (GCRB), its sister database program. Here’s Jeff’s account of the […]

2022 PGA Championship Replay: R2 Results

This post summarizes round 2 of my APBA Golf replay of the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills (Sooner Hills). Earlier posts described the replay set-up based on conditions for the actual tournament and round 1 replay results. Actual Event In round 2 of the actual tournament, Will Zalatoris (65) climbed to the top of the […]

2022 PGA Championship Replay: R1 Results

This post summarizes round 1 of my APBA Golf replay of the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills (Sooner Hills). An earlier post described the replay set-up based on conditions for the actual tournament. Actual Event In round 1, the starting 156-player field’s average score was 72.8 strokes. Of the 78 players that would play […]

Nicklaus Wins ATG Tournament By 5

There wasn’t much doubt after the 3rd hole of the final round of my All-Time Greats (ATG) Tournament at Los Angeles (Riviera). Following an eagle and two birdies, Jack Nicklaus (1975) was sitting comfortably at 19-under for the tournament with a 7-stroke lead over Nick Price (1994) and 9-stroke edge over Arnold Palmer (1960). Palmer […]

Regular vs. Major Tournament Putting Boards

In this post I examine two putting factors: (1) using Regular Putting boards vs. Major Tournament Putting boards on overall putts per round and (2) using the Putting Probability Tool and Putting Probability Tool for Major Tournaments to assess whether there is an initial putting distance range at which strategies might change when using these […]

GC 5.2.1: How “If Any” Wind Works

There were a couple of issues that users spotted that necessitated the latest Game Caddie update (version 5.2.1). The first was a typo that reversed the FW and G rolls for Soft course conditions. The other involves how the If Any (wind) checkbox works. A more detailed explanation follows. Rather than get into what didn’t […]