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Studying improved performance in golf

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  • Sangit Chatterjee
  • Frederick Wiseman
  • Robert Perez

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The topic of improved performances by athletes in both team and individual sports has shown that each sport has its own unique set of characteristics and these have to be analysed accordingly. This paper presents an extensive analysis of the nature and extent of improvement in golf by analysing the performances of the top players in the Masters tournament throughout the entire history of the event. The results indicate that golfers are obtaining lower scores over time and that the variation of the scores has declined. Further, the distributions of scores are symmetric and display a monotonic reduction of peakedness (kurtosis). These findings are indicative of rapid and improved performance and increased competition.

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  • Sangit Chatterjee & Frederick Wiseman & Robert Perez, 2002. "Studying improved performance in golf," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(8), pages 1219-1227.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:japsta:v:29:y:2002:i:8:p:1219-1227
    DOI: 10.1080/0266476022000011283
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    1. Mustafa R. Yilmaz & Sangit Chatterjee & Mohamed Habibullah, 2001. "Improvement by Spreading the Wealth," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 2(2), pages 181-193, May.
    2. Sangit Chatterjee & Matthew Laudato, 1997. "Gender and performance of world-class athletes," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(1), pages 3-10.
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    2. Benno Torgler, 2004. "?La Grande Boucle?: Determinants of Success at the Tour de France," CREMA Working Paper Series 2004-22, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), revised May 2005.
    3. Harold Fried & Loren Tauer, 2011. "The impact of age on the ability to perform under pressure: golfers on the PGA tour," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 35(1), pages 75-84, February.

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