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Using data from the 1995-2006 LPGA Tour, we analyse players’ response to the presence of Annika Sorenstam, a dominant champion on the LPGA Tour at the time. We find that the measures of players’ responses are highly sensitive to specification. Employing course fixed effects (FEs) greatly...
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This paper is about aging and the ability to perform under pressure on the PGA tour. Performance increases with golfing skill, but may first increase and then decrease with age as experience interacts with changes in physical condition. Similarly, mental fortitude or the ability of a golfer to...
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with Tiger side-by-side.We also demonstrate that Phil Mickelson's performance in major golf championships over the 1998 …-2001 period was not nearly as bad as was frequently mentioned in the golf press. Although Mickelson won no majors during this … performance in majors, relative to his estimated skill level, was comparable to that of Tiger Woods, who won five of 16 major golf …
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The official handicapping system of the Royal Canadian Golf Association (RCGA) is very similar to the handicapping … system of the United States Golf Association (USGA). Although these handicapping systems are complex and have been carefully …
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