Three Interesting Takeaways From The Game of Golf

By Zephan Shivam


Probability of Course Playing above Par: 50.88%

Golf has so many moving variables, and it can be hard to make sense of all of them. In this project, I used data from datagolf.com about 91 PGA courses, to extract informatiion about the score, driving distance, and yardage. I modeling three variables in the dataset to draw deep and interesting conclusions about golf, and to make some sense of the game. More specifically, the project modeled the score, driving distance, and yardage. I used a predictive model for all three of the graphs. In this project, we see how the difficulty of courses are well balanced, driving over 300 yards is very tough while driving over 280 yards is easy, and finally, we see that yardage has no effect on the score.