Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Rich Hunt’s 2014 Pro Golf Synopsis, which can be purchasedhere for $10.
This beyond season, PGA Tour players made a median of 39.Eight percent in their birdie putts from five-to-15 toes whilst making 52.6 percent of their par-or-worse putts from the identical distance. That method that Tour gamers make a better percent of par-or-worse putts than they make birdie putts from the same distance.
Why? To explain, I’ll start with the numbers.
Here?S a list of the ten Tour players who saw the largest drop-off of their birdie make percent from their par or worse make percent:
Only players at the PGA Tour ? Luke Donald and Kevin Streelman ? Made a higher percent in their birdie putts than par-or-worse putts from 5-to-15 ft within the 2013-2014 season.
At first, I concept Tour gamers made extra par-or-worse putts than birdie putts due to the fact they have been more likely to have birdie putts that had been downhill. Studies achieved by golf researchers show that in trendy gamers make a higher percent of uphill putts from the same distance than downhill putts.
The different premonition I had was that on par-or-worse putts Tour players have been much more likely to have gotten a sense for that particular green. More frequently than now not, Tour gamers are trying to make a birdie with either a putt on the green or a chip from just off the green. They get a better feel for the green on the putt or chip after which have a higher know-how of a way to make the following putt.
In February 2011, in the American Economic Review authors Devin Pope and Maurice Schweitzer examined this in the article titledIs Tiger Woods Loss Averse? Persistent Bias in the Face of Experience, Competition, and High Stakes.
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