There have been a host of empirical papers studying the returns to skill in professional golf (e.g., Alexander & Kern …, carefully considers the skewed distribution of earnings in professional golf. This paper uses quantile regression to better … handle the skewness and outlier values found in PGA earnings data. Using data from the PGA for the years 2004 to 2007 results …

tournament setting. Empirically, we examine trends in professional golf earnings distributions and in the relative performance of … average and below average PGA tour golfers in the U.S. The empirical work indicates that the performance of less skilled …

This article argues that the use of membership fees at shared facilities, such as private golf courses, is not per se …