Taxing Slow Play
Time is valuable even for sports fans.  The Masters is one of my favorite sports events (even if run by an all-male club) but watching …
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Golf Politics: Banning the Belly
In 1980, the long drive guy was hitting it 285, and now if you hit it 285, you’re one of the shortest guys on the …
Scheduling Thoughts: PGA Tour & NCAA
A couple of articles, both related to scheduling, caught my attention recently. First, Bob Harig at ESPN ponders “Why the No Shows for the PGA …
Tiger in the House
In a recent paper, Jennifer Brown of Cal-Berkeley finds that when Tiger is player, the average score in tournaments increases by almost a stroke (0.8) …
Augusta National Changes: "Buzzkill" or Return to Long Run Form
Yahoo!’s Dan Wetzel writes: The 13th is the end of Amen Corner and these days the golfers don’t have a prayer. It was once a …
Predicting Rory
Journalists like to tell stories. They mix in some analysis into their stories, but as more garnish than main course. After Rory McIlroy’s bad Sunday …
Bethpage, The Rest of the Story
The mainstream media, much of it east-coast centered such as Connecticut-based ESPN, droned on and on about how great venue Bethpage is — “muni,” “bringing …