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 […]
GC 5.3.2 Fixes
There are two fixes in Game Caddie version 5.3.2: Autoscoring will now work correctly when a tree lie roll on a second shot changes the lie to FW. Note that the player is still in the trees but has a clear shot and can use the FW column. (Club restrictions still apply.) Previously, Autoscoring would […]
GC 5.3.1 Update
The latest Game Caddie update, version 5.3.1, fixes some issues with pin locations for Monterrey and tree lies. Here is a list of the changes and some things to be aware of: The pin locations for hole #18 on Monterrey have been corrected. Clear shots from the trees are now changed to FW or RR, […]
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 […]
2022 PGA Championship Replay Setup
This post addresses the setup for an APBA Golf replay of the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma (Sooner Hills). Future posts will provide a round-by-round summary for both the actual event and the replay. Of those golfers that participated in the actual event, I’ll be using 69 players from the 80 […]
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 […]
Game Caddie Play Launches
I am pleased to announce the inaugural video for the new Game Caddie Play channel on YouTube has been uploaded. This channel will serve as a place where APBA Golf fans can watch me and others play the game live and via recordings. The first video is a recording of me playing the front nine […]
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 […]