The PGA Tour: Show Me the Money

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The PGA Tour Show Me the Money!

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Interesting PGA Facts

• First U.S. Open - 1895
• The Professional Golfers Association (PGA)
  formed in 1916.
• Largest sports organization in the world with
  over 27,000 professional golfers.
• Tiger Woods career money leader 36,171,102
  (9,188,321 in 1999). Davis Love III is 2nd with
  23,838,562
• Website PGATour.com

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Hypothesis

• Null There will be no relationship between the
  PGA golfers statistics and the money they earn
  in each tournament.
• Alternative There will be a relationship between
  the PGA golfers statistics and the money they
  earn in each tournament.

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WHO PGA Money Leaders5/16/03
Davis Love Ranked 1st 3,787,712
Bob Tway Ranked 20th 1,079,040
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WHO PGA Money Losers5/16/03
Brian Claar Ranked 208th 17,500
Gabriel Hjertstedt Ranked 228th 5,200
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Predictors
Dependent Variable

• Money Per Event

• Driving Distance
• Driving Accuracy
• Greens in Regulation
• Putting Average

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Predictors (ctd.)

• 5. Birdie Average
• 6. Par Breaker Percentage
• 7. Sand Save Percentage
• 8. Scoring Average
• 9. Final Round Scoring Average

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Correlation Coefficients
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The Exception Scott Hoch

• 1,118,923 (124,325 in 9 tournaments)
• Par Breaker .178
• Earned 900,000 for being 1st in the Ford
  Championship at Doral.
• Has not earned money in 5 of the tournaments.
• NOTE Won 200,000 in a match play tournament.

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The Exception Scott Hoch

• 1,118,923 (124,325 in 9 tournaments)
• Scoring Avg. 73
• Missed cut in four of the tournaments.
• Withdrew from one tournament.
• Made 18,000 in two tournaments with a total
  score of 22 over par.

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Example

• Ernie Els
• Driving Distance 304.1 yards
• Money per Event 318,132
• Bill Glasson
• Driving Distance 304.9 yards
• Money per Event 7,840
• DIFFERENCE 68.83 vs. 73.25.

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Conclusion

• There is a statistical relationship between the
  PGA golfers statistics and the money they earn
  in each tournament.
• But, there are too many variables luck,
  tournament structure etc to be able to predict
  consistently.