Pre-Championship Stats & (Un)interesting Facts

Leading into the final event, here are some Spring ’17 stats and (un)interesting facts. I’m listing “top 5s” in a few of the more important categories to keep the post a little shorter. I’ll list complete rankings for every stat after the final event.

It’s tough to compare apples to apples for our stats since not everyone plays in every event and it’s only going to get tougher as people start to play different tee boxes more frequently but we work with what we have.

Par 3, 4, and 5 scoring should be self-explanatory…it’s your average score for all of the 3s, 4s, and 5s you’ve played this season.

Par 3 Scoring
1	Dan	3.500
2	Chandler	3.625
T3	Reid	3.725
T3	John	3.725
5	Faz	3.742

Par 4 Scoring
1	Dan	4.617
2	Dave	4.628
3	Chandler	4.910
4	Brian	4.930
5	Gary	5.026

Par 5 Scoring
1	Dave	5.231
2	Chandler	5.731
3	Dan	5.800
4	Brian	5.842
5	Gary	5.885

The next three categories should also be pretty obvious. The dreaded “others” category is how often you make double or worse. The true “top 5” for this would of course be the people with the lowest percentage but I didn’t want the guys with actual golf talent to be the only ones included in this post. Being “top 5” for bogey can be a good or bad thing depending on your handicap. For most of us, making bogey on a relatively consistent basis will lead to solid net scores.

Pars or Better
1	Dan	60.000%
2	Dave	52.778%
3	Brian	45.370%
4	Chandler	45.139%
5	Gary	38.889%

Bogey
1	Darren	46.667%
2	Casey	42.063%
3	Gorecki	40.278%
4	John	38.194%
5	Reid	37.500%

Others
1	JW	55.556%
2	Geoff	52.381%
3	Gorecki	48.611%
4	Brendan	48.148%
5	Katie	46.825%

Points per event goes to show you don’t technically need to play in all of the events and you also don’t need to win multiple times. Katie has missed an event but she’s won three times, came in third at a major, and only finished out of the points once. John, on the other hand, has only one win but it was the Faz Match Play where he earned an extra 100 points for his individual match, two second place finishes (one of them a major), two thirds, and a fourth place finish with also only one goose egg on the season.

Points per Event
1	Katie	262.857
2	John	214.063
3	Dave	169.688
4	Troy	140.714
5	Gary	109.375

A couple other interesting things I noticed while glancing at stats.

The competition and level of play has been great so far with the tightest margin between winner and runner-up net scores (2.75 strokes) since the Spring ’14 season and the second best average winning net score of 6.625 strokes below par.

We’ve played four courses for the first time in league history this season (Cheval, Rogers, Saddlebrook, Heritage Isles), soon to be five with the neutral site championship this week.

We’ve had two first-time winners: Katie and Troy. And Brian won for the first time since the Spring ’15 season, something like 25 starts between wins.

We’ve had 18 pitchers of beer purchased, only one for the 10-under sandbagger rule. I guess technically 17 since I see JW voluntarily put himself on the deadbeat list but we earned 18 and that’s what matters.

Brendan and Brian both need to switch up whatever they’re doing at the turn because they both have awful back-9 scoring compared to their front-9s. Brian shoots, on average, 5.5 strokes worse on the back and Brendan isn’t much better with a 4.167 stroke differential. Maybe they should ask Katie what she’s doing at the turn since her front and back scoring average is exactly the same. It might have something to do with her always riding in the snack cart, I mean Dave’s cart, since his differential is also basically nothing at only 0.875 strokes.

That’s all for now. I wish I had the time to do my weekly stats posts like I used to. I’ll try to be better about it for the summer season. Good luck to Katie, John, and Dave out in Orlando on Sunday. It would have been nice of the Jamaican Open tournament host to offer us a charter flight to our next event but I guess it’s taking time for those $2 fines to add up.