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...
The average scoring streak lasts only 1.2 tournaments...
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...
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...
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...
Holes should never be located on greater than 3% grade...