Player Performance Charts
The Masters - Woods Success Starts With A Finishing Touch - The New York Times

A statistical model I designed to predict scores based on performance factors finds that greens in regulation and putting combined account for 55 percent of the predictive power of scoring...

FedEx Cup - When It Comes To Points, It's Winning That Counts - The New York Times

The average scoring streak lasts only 1.2 tournaments...

US Open - Read Tiger's Putts! - GOLF.com

Armed with sophisticated lasers, artificial-intelligence software and a physics engine that would make Einstein blush, AimPoint Technolgies' Mark Sweeney knows how every putt is going to break on the 18th green at Torrey Pines...

How Woods Wins a Major - The New York Times

Golf's four major tournaments offer competitors a more difficult test than the rest of the stops on tour. But while most players succumb to the tougher courses and heightened nerves, Tiger Woods shows less of a decline, especially in categories like greens in regulation and scrambling...

US Open - The Tillinghast Test - The New York Times

A.W. Tillinghast designed the West Course at Winged Foot in the early 1920;s, and it has been challneging the world's best golfers in every era since...


The Fine Line of Fair Competition: How To Avoid Hole Location Disasters - by Mark Sweeney & Martin Carroll

Holes should never be located on greater than 3% grade...