Golf
Ryann O’Toole’s $1 Million Bonus: A One-Season Achievement or a Signal About LPGA Player Economics?The $1 million credited to Ryann O’Toole is not a tournament winner’s cheque....
Golf Analysis in an Information Vacuum: Why Evidence Must Come Before ConclusionsA good golf shot and a good scorecard do not always tell the same story. A...
Ben James Leads at 15-Under: Why a 36-Hole Lead Is Still Not a Guarantee of VictoryThe first stroke I ever hand-coded was not on a leaderboard. It was on a...
The Grass That Didn't Rebound: McIlroy's Two-Shot Penalty and the Real Stakes in the Race to DubaiOn the 12th hole at Abu Dhabi National, Rory McIlroy's first chip nearly...
Clinched Off the Couch: Korda's 26 Points and the Vare Trophy Gap Nobody Is ReadingOn the day the Annika field was finalized, I opened a column other than the...
Pipeline Failure: The Empty Shell of a Golf Analytics ReportSitting at an assistant's desk in Singapore, I opened a data deconstruction...
Empty Data, Full Story: The Gap Between Golf Scorecards and Broadcast GraphicsIn my Manchester flat, I often do a strange thing. I open a tournament's...
Stars Exit LIV Golf: From Koepka to Puig, a Full Analysis of an Era's End1. Background: Three Events, One Crisis The end of LIV Golf's first incarnati...
The Zero-Information Report: When Silence Is the Only Honest Answer in Golf AnalysisEight pillars. Thirty-three cells. Every cell returns the same sentence:...
TGL Season Three: Seven Teams, Five-Man Rosters and the Arithmetic of the First TradeThe number that sits beside Shane Lowry's name is four. On Monday, TGL...
The Zero-Row Report: Why Bangladesh Golf's Ledger Always Comes Back EmptyA four-page analysis report landed on my desk last week. I stopped at the fir...
The Unemployed Caddie and the Sunday Trophy: The Stratum Buried Beneath Vijay Singh's WinThe ball dropped at the 18th green of Prestonwood Country Club. Vijay Singh...


