Tom Boswell’s insightful thoughts on Tom Watson’s remarkable performance at the 2009 British Open at Turnburry.
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July, 2009
There Is Poetry In This Near Miss
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Dark Art Of Putting
For the golf TV audience the tour is introducing a new golf stat called “Strokes Gained Putting” which tries to measure how many strokes a player gained on the field during a round through his putting performance. Once again, the average person has no way of keeping a statistic like this for himself, so it becomes something only institutional entities can track and purvey. Mike Agger explains the significance of this new statistic in the attached article.
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August, 2010
Why Most Statistics Whiff and How To Fix Them
This is the first of two articles by Mike Agger that focuses on how misleading the conventional statistics in golf are. Correctly the standard stats of Fairways Hit, Greens In Regulation, Putts Per Round do not give a clear indication of how a player is playing a particular round compared to the field. The problem is that the stats he talks about in this article and in the Dark Art of Putting are ones that a regular player cannot possibly keep by himself. They require such pervasive and thorough data collection and analysis they can only be done by an institutional source like the tour or a television broadcast company.
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August, 2010
Starter’s Hut
Moe is a narcotic golfer, husband, father, and lover of golden retrievers and puggles, chocolate and well done fries. He plays the holes over in his head endlessly at night.
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Golf at Midnight
This picture is from the third hole on the course we played in Danali, Alaska. It was taken at midnight. Yes, midnight. Don’t believe me? Check the clock…
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