Predicting a PGA Tour Winner: Exploration & Regression
A first pass through the data — which stats actually matter when you're trying to pick a winner before the tournament tees off.
A small publication for people who take golf seriously — the numbers, the patterns, the stories behind the scorecard.
A daily game. Six stats, one Tour pro. Read the numbers — can you name the player behind the scorecard? New puzzle every day.
Play Today's Round →Long-form analysis of men's professional golf. Data-driven, but written for the curious rather than the quants.
A first pass through the data — which stats actually matter when you're trying to pick a winner before the tournament tees off.
Building on the exploration — grouping players by playing style, and using decision trees to forecast who rises on any given week.
The Caddie Desk is a one-person publication covering men's professional golf through data and careful reading. Home of Pardle, the daily guess-the-player puzzle, and the occasional long-form essay.