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This page highlights some of the extensive European PGA and US PGA Tour golf statistics and charts available on Golf Predictor. The golf predictions engine and the company behind it are also described.
Golf Statistics & Golf Predictions System
Golf Predictor uses the latest available golf statistics to try and predict the outcome of future professional golf tournaments on the European PGA and US PGA tours. In addition to comprehensive results and
golf statistics for every tournament, golfer, course used and season since 2003, there are two main parts to Golf Predictor:
The golf statistics analyser number crunches all the main statistics for each golfer on the tournament entry list. The golf predictions engine then
uses an algorithm on this information to try and predict the performance of each golfer.
The golf statistics analyser is based on hard facts and calculates a range of statistics, including the recent, season and historical (course, tournament, similar weather and similar tournament) performance for each golfer in the
tournament. You can see information such as who has the most wins, the most top tens and the least cuts missed, the longest cut streak and the longest winless streak. It also calculates the season scoring average across both the European PGA and US PGA tours for each competing player and the historical scoring average for the course, tournament
and last 12 similar events. There is also a myriad of golf statistics on every tournament, golfer, season and course on the European PGA/US PGA Tour since 2003.
The golf predictions engine uses the above mentioned golf statistics to generate player rankings for the next tournament.
The ranking for each golfer is normalised to a percentage chance (called the GP Score) of winning the tournament. Their approximate fair odds are also calculated from the GP Score. Unfortunately, golfers are not machines,
but the golf predictions engine will tell you who is most likely to perform in the next event. The various golf predictions pages also allow you to ascertain useful information like who the form golfers are, who is the most/least consistent, who has the most wins, the highest winning percentage, the most top ten finishes, the highest top ten finishing percentage, the least cuts missed, the lowest missed cuts percentage, the best performance over the season in every round
of a tournament or the best average first round on the course/in the tournament/in similar events
in the past. You can also directly compare the golf statistics and the recent/historical/similar tournament form (last 10 results) for up to 10 competing golfers. Our golf predictions can help you make informed decisions when
deciding on golf betting picks or choosing fantasy golfers.
The screenshots below illustrate a small subset of the golf statistics (numeric and visual) available for a golfer/tournament. The complete list of features available for our Golf Predictions is on the Golf Predictor blog. The first screenshot shows the top ten golf predictions for the 2009 Arnold Palmer Invitational on the US PGA Tour:
All the above columns are sortable for the entire field and you can hover over a
golfer name for more golf statistics, as shown above for Padraig Harrington. You
can also view various golf statistics graphically by selecting one of the field charting
links shown above.
For example, clicking on the 'Best in Last 5 Events' chart will show the golfers in the field with the best average finishing position in their last 5 events. This chart for the 2009 Arnold Palmer Invitational is shown below:
Hovering over a bar will display more golf statistics for that player, as shown above for Tiger Woods. Note that you can change the orientation of Golf Predictor charts with names to horizontal if you so wish. Clicking on a golfer name in the
golf predictions list (first screenshot above) will show a golf predictions page similar to that shown below. This image shows a subset of the available for Padraig Harrington ahead of the 2009 Arnold Palmer Invitational:
Hovering over a tournament name in a results table displays more golf statistics, as shown above for the 2009 Northern Trust Open. Clicking on the chart icon link beside "Season Ave Pos" or "Season Results"
on the golf predictions page will display the chart shown below. This is a visual representation of Harrington's season form up to the selected tournament.
Hovering on a data point will show golf statistics for that week, as shown for week 10 above.
There is also a wealth of golf statistics available for each tournament. Clicking on any tournament link (e.g. on the
golf predictions page above) will bring up a screen similar to below:
This shows the for the 2009 Arnold Palmer Invitational. Hovering over a golfer in the previous winners or results tables displays more information, as shown above (in both cases for Tiger Woods). Clicking on any of the the chart links in the 'Round Scores' section of the tournament statistics page will show a chart similar to below:
This chart shows the distribution of scores for the entire tournament ('Overall Chart'). Hovering on a bar will show more
golf statistics, as
shown for '70-74' range above. We also have charts showing the shortest and longest courses used on the European and US PGA Tours, either in a season or overall since 2003. For example, the chart below shows the longest courses used on the US PGA Tour in the 2008 season:
Hovering on a bar will show more details, as shown above. We have also integrated Google Maps into Golf Predictor. This allows you to view the location of a course (single point on map), the location of all tournaments
on the US PGA Tour or the European PGA tour in a given year (multiple points on the map) or the location of all the tournaments played by any golfer in any year since 2003 (multiple points).
The screenshot below shows the played by Retief Goosen in 2008:
Hovering over a flag marker on the map will display some golf statistics, as shown above. This page can only show a small subset of Golf Predictor features.
Register for Golf Predictor and have a look around or check out the Golf Predictor blog
for enhancements to our golf predictions and other related information.
About the Company
Golf Predictor was developed by Rapidcoast Services, a small company founded in the West of Ireland. The site was the brainchild of the chief technical officer, a self confessed golf nut
who believed that golf predictions and statistics would be useful for many
people! Fortunately, his software development skills far outstripped his golfing ability and so Golf Predictor was born!
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