An analysis of players' consistency among professional golfers: a longitudinal study.
This study followed the performance of individual professional golfers who played from 1997 to 2000 on the Professional Golfers Association Tour (PGA Tour, N=35), Ladies Professional Golfers Association Tour (LPGA Tour, N = 25), and Senior Professional Golfers Association Tour (SPGA Tour, N = 31) and investigated individual players' consistency in round-to-round performance within tournaments. Although the number of players showing consistency for most years exceeded chance expectations, evidence for round-to-round consistency from one year to the next for any player was small. Such evidence suggests that variability in player performance is more the rule than the exception for players on the three American professional tours.
Clark
Russell D
RD
University of North Texas, USA. rdclark@unt.edu
D000124:Achievement; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006055:Golf / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013223:Statistics as Topic