
Check out Michael Agger's adroit use of ShotLink data to break down what areas of Tiger's game have been holding him back and compare it to the kinds of stats Hound Dog has to engineer to come up with useful measures of ballstriking and putting perform...
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It's Evian Masters week, so you know what that means here at Mostly Harmless, right? Well, after Whine About My Game Monday, it's time to kick off Ai Miyazato's First LPGA Title Defense Celebration Week with an update to my June ranking of the Best of...
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...a boring update on my own game. Skip this if you want, but maybe checking my patterns will help you notice and analyze yours.With onechan finally old enough to start playing a few holes with me several times this summer already (and more when she g...
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Last Sunday morning at the LPGA Championship, I followed, in turn, Mi Hyun Kim (and Juli Inkster), Mina Harigae (and Stacy Prammanasudh), and Ai Miyazato (and Brittany Lang), for the 1st 4 or 5 holes of their final rounds before I had to leave Locust H...
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The State Farm Classic is here, so it's time to update my end-of-year ranking of the Best of the LPGA. As usual, I'll be combining the LPGA money list (through the Sybase Match Play Championship), Hound Dog's latest ranking (which focuses exclusively ...
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Now that we're heading into the meat of the LPGA's schedule, it's high time to put together my rankings of the classes of 2006, 2007, and 2008 to see who the very best of the Young Guns generation are and what their prospects are for the rest of 2010. ...
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It's like The Tale of Two Cities for the youngest class in the Young Guns generation. Their top 6 can play with anyone in the world, while the rest of the class is struggling to stay on or get back onto the LPGA.Simply the Best1. Ya Ni Tseng. Winnin...
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The '06ers, the oldest rookie class in the LPGA's Young Guns generation, have a new top gun in Ai Miyazato. Let's take a look at the class of 2007 to see what's new with their careers, shall we? For the vast majority of the class, it's not a pretty...
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With the LPGA's season about to shift into high gear, the time is right to update my rankings of the Young Guns generation, the rookie classes of 2006, 2007, and 2008. With Annika and Lorena retired, Paula and Suzann battling injuries, and Cristie and Angela finding it difficult to return...
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For the statistically-minded, I strongly recommend Mike Southern's invention of three stats that track how well a player recovers after missing a green in regulation. The key one is "scramble putting," which he demonstrates by comparing Rory McIlroy's...
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