Archive for the ‘Statistics’ Category

What happens after the 19th Major for Tiger Woods?

Tiger loves winning, there is no questioning that. It seems he does mark his place in history not by how many strokes he stomps the field by, such as 12 for the 1997 Masters or 15 shots at the 2000 U.S. Open, but by winning more Major Championships than Jack Nicklaus (currently holds 18 Majors).
So […]

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Tiger Woods Versus Jack Nicklaus

I had the following video sent in from Newsy and felt it was a worthy video to post.
It goes into a comparative analysis of the all time great Jack Nicklaus versus Tiger Woods. Give it a watch.

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Tiger could shoot his worst round ever and still win

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All Tiger has to do on Sunday is make his teetime and yawn through the next 5 hours. Simple as that. Tiger holds a 12 shot lead over his closest FedEx Cup points competitor, Rory Sabbatini, and a 13 shot lead over Phil Mickelson. For Rory or Phil to stand a snowball’s chance in […]

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Handicap Indeces of the Pros

David Mosher over at The Sand Trap recently posted a very interesting article about the handicap index ratings of the pros. Check out the full article here, but here is a summary of what was written.

Normally we apply a 0.96 multiplier to a person’s average differential in calculating handicaps. This is to help figure in […]

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