Dominance, Intimidation, and 'Choking' on the PGA Tour

Dominance, Intimidation, and ‘Choking’ on the PGA Tour

Extending the work of Connolly and Rendleman (2008), we document the dominance of Tiger Woods during the 1998-2001 PGA Tour seasons. We show that by playing " average, " Woods could have won some tournaments and placed no worse than fourth in the tournaments in which he participated in year 2000, his best on the PGA Tour. No other PGA Tour player in our sample could have come close to such a fe...

Choking Under Pressure on the PGA Tour

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Evidence of Choking Under Pressure on the PGA Tour

Determinants of Performance on the PGA Tour

Professional golf is an area that is particularly attractive to study because it models a perfectly competitive economy where payoffs are directly related to individual productivity (Scully 2002). Since one‟s earnings on the PGA Tour are based on individual performance, different skill factors and other variables such as tour experience and the number of events entered can be compared to determ...

Understanding Putting Performance on the Pga Tour

Existing performance metrics utilized by the PGA TOUR have biases towards specific styles of play, which make relative player comparisons challenging. Our goal is to evaluate golfers in a way that eliminates these biases and to better understand how the best players maintain their advantage. Through a working agreement with the PGA TOUR, we have obtained access to proprietary “ShotLink” data th...