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Originally Posted by Your Boss
Tiger has hit both more fairways and more greens than Rory.
Tiger has made only one less birdie than Rory, which kinda kills your proximity argument.
So more fairways, more greens, very similar birdie totals. I wonder what's different?
Rory .6 shots gained putting, Tiger -1.2. That is a per round stat, so x2 you get 1.2 and -2.4 and a difference of 3.6. Tiger has hit the ball consistently better than Rory, however Rory's good shots are ending up closer to the flag than Tiger's and Tiger's worst shot of the week came at a poor time to find the water on a par 3 yesterday. That was good for basically a 2 shot penalty since it was stroke + distance. Putting difference 3.6 shots + Penalty shots 2= 5.6 shots. Difference between Rory and Tiger up to this point 6 shots.
Disclaimer: I have never said Tiger is playing better than Rory this week, but I think the difference between them is much closer than the 2 score cards would indicate.
Also Shremp a statistics person! Though I didn't major in statistics I took plenty of math classes for fun in college. I feel better about most of the stuff I've posted that is statistics related recently because I'm sure if it was way off Shremp of all people would have slammed the math and then sprinkled some Chevron Wold Cup diggs on top of it.
Last edited by NxtWrldChamp; 03-03-2012 at 10:22 AM.