Statistics

This page links various statistical analysis pages. These stats span from 1976 to February and March of 2003. This data will not be updated regularly. The primary purpose here is to record and summarize what has occurred since the early years of the club.

Detailed Flight Results   (Thru March 2003)

(Note - "LowGs" flight indicates an imaginary flight. Data will likely be redundant. However LowGs flight data reveals the finishes of low gross competitions. See below for more info.)

Flight Results by Date

• Flight Results 1976 to March 2003 (281 kb) PDF file, for slower connections, right click to save locally. You will likely have to use Adobe Acrobat's magnifying tool to view data.

• Flight Results 1976 to March 2003 (2.0 MB) HTML file, open only if on high-speed connection, DSL, etc.

Flight Results ranked by Flight Winner, then by Date

• Flight Results 1976 to March 2003 - by Flight Winner, then by Date (283 KB) PDF file. This is a great file. It reveals to each individual the tournaments won, and when. If you look at any file here, take a glance at this one!

These files provide a complete record of full results from 373 UCGC tournaments and 1,722 flights. This is the culmination of 18 months of work. With a very conservative estimate of 12 hours per week, this project has taken at least 936 hours to complete. That's enough time to play over 200 rounds of golf. The project began in October of 2001 with the sorting through, scanning, and photographing every historically significant club document. After about a year this monumental task was completed. Organizing digital files into a functional archive took another 4 months. At this point the web Archive was in place to serve as a research tool. Combing through the created archive, gathering, and cross-checking all the data began last December and ended last weekend, on March 2nd, 2003. It took a very solid week of very late nights to sculpt the data into a format which not only efficiently housed the data, but one which provided the easiest interpretation. It's 2am on March 10, 2003, and a whole new level of detail is now at the fingertips of every member. Whether or not anyone cares is, of course, a thought that comes quickly to mind. However, no club in the world can likely match the detail we have preserved from the past 28 years. Remarkably, I can compress this data to fit onto a single floppy drive. In fact the entire site, with all of the flight data, the complete UCGC archive, and 4,000 photos can be burned onto a single CD, which costs about 35 cents. At any rate,  I'm glad it's finally online. Over the next few weeks I'll be posting great things like: "All-time lowest net scores", "All-time lowest gross scores", as well as a complete tally for each member in terms of first place finishes, second place finishes, majors, etc. Once that's done I'll probably get a life.

Included in the flight column of the above files is a category, "LowGs". In many majors, where there is a winner of an overall low gross, often there is no real flight for this. The overall low gross is simply determined and the emphasis has been placed on say, the winner of the 1st flight. In order to view the results for the overall low gross category a new term has been devised, that is, the LowGs flight, an imaginary flight. All it does is extract and rank the lowest gross scores. Ties for first are always resolved in a playoff. Ties for second third or fourth were done by first looking for the best back nine score, then by best handicap index. In low a low gross tournament there's never a playoff for fourth place, however, since there is room in the spreadsheet we might as well place a name there to provide an idea of who was playing well that day.

Lowest Gross Scores During a Tournament  (Thru March 2003)

Lowest Gross Scores include all flights from any recorded round, except:

• Individual performances in the 2-Ball are not easily tracked, however, tedious research has uncovered all the lowest recorded 2-Ball scores.

• Scores from multi-day tournaments are not included.

• Scores above 4-over par, which failed to place are not included.

• Lowest Gross - Alphabetically by Member (270 kb PDF file) - reveals that 594 different people have placed in our tournaments

• Lowest Gross - by Par-Adjusted Score, then by Date (270 kb PDF file)

• Lowest Gross - by Par-Adjusted Score, then by Member (270 kb PDF file)

• Lowest Gross - by Low Net (including Blind Bogey) (270 kb PDF file)

• Lowest Gross - by Course, by Par-Adjusted Score (270 kb PDF file)

• Lowest Gross - by Major, then by Par-Adjusted Score, then by Date (270 kb PDF file)

Lowest Net Score  (Thru March 2003)

• Lowest Net - by Most Strokes below Net Par (207 kb) PDF file

• Low Net - by Lowest Net Score (207 kb) PDF file

  • Scores included are based strictly on NCGA handicap indexes which were put into effect on August 9, 1980.

  • Individual performances in the 2-Ball are not easily tracked and are thus not included. They are, however, included in the Club Records page.

  • Scores that failed to place are not included, thus if there were a 4-way tie at net 61, the fourth score would not be included.

Majors Matrix  (Thru 2004 Season, 9/5/04)

Provides a complete tally of all Majors since 1967. This matrix is something that Paul Zingg recommended generating in 2001.

Sorted by various categories (html files):

• Major Wins - Alphabetically

• Major Wins - Most Major Wins

• Major Wins - Most Gross Major Wins

• Major Wins - Most Net Major Wins

• Major Wins - Most Golfer of the Year Wins

Sorted by Major (html files):

• Major Wins - Most Faculty/Staff Wins

• Major Wins - Most Club Championship Wins

• Major Wins - Most Kooman Boycheff Wins

• Major Wins - Most Eddie Reed Wins

• Major Wins - Most 2-Ball Wins

Ties  (Thru February 2003)
(See also: Playoff History, which addresses extra holes during low gross championships)

Below is all the data on ties and tiebreakers. Ties used to be determined by a handicap-hole based "card matching" process which involved comparing scores on the #1 handicap hole, then on the #2 handicap hole, etc, until the winner was determined. More recently the club has adopted the USGA recommended method of card matching. If there is a tie the following succession of tie-breakers now come into effect:

1. Gross score over last 9 holes, minus 1/2 of course handicap

2. Gross score over last 6 holes, minus 1/3 of course handicap

3. Gross score over last 3 holes, minus 1/6 of course handicap

4. Gross score on 18th hole, minus 1/18 of course handicap

* The tie-breaker for Blind Bogey flights is low gross score.

The following PDF files provide lists, by category, of all recorded tiebreakers since 1976.

Tiebreaker Flight Details

• Tiebreakers - Low Gross  
• Tiebreakers - Low Net (chronologically)
• Tiebreakers - Low Net (by lowest scores)
• Tiebreakers - Blind Bogey
• Tiebreakers - Team events (2-Ball, etc.)
• Tiebreakers - Two-day events

Individual Performance Records in Tiebreakers

Track records of each person. Includes record on all forms of tiebreakers including playoffs. 

• Individual Performance by Name
• Individual Performance by Most Wins
• Individual Performance by Most Losses
• Individual Performance by Best Winning Percentage
• Individual Performance by Highest Participation

Ties Summary

Here's a quick breakdown of the ties for 1st place, which have occurred since 1976:

Ties for 1st	Occurrences since 1976
5-way	1
4-way	1
3-way	30
2-way	175
Total	207

CTP Data  (Thru February 2003)

• CTP Ranked by Closeness to Pin (700 kb file)
  

• CTP Tally (118 kb file) - lists individuals in order of most contests won.

CTP Data Organized in Seven Different Ways (580 KB files. Warning, these pages require time to open, especially in Netscape. If using Netscape give it several minutes to complete. Patience is the key):

• Ranked by Closeness to Hole

• Organized by Member

• Organized by Date

• Organized by Course or Tournament

• Organized by Flight

• Organized by Major Events

• Organized by Number of CTP Wins per Player
  
  
  Double CTP

• Double CTP - See all occurrences - Winning two CTPs in one tournament, a very rare event. Has only happened 7 times.

The Double  (Thru February 2003)

This is a Double Victory. It consists of placing in a flight and wining the CTP. As of March 1, 2003 this feat has occurred 430 times, with 157 Golden Doubles (1st place finish). The most rare feat is the Golden Sharp-Shooter (1st place and two CTPs!). More rare than a hole-in-one, it has only occurred once. 

General (140 kb files)

• Doubles - Member Tally - This page summarizes every recorded double in club history, from 1976 thru February of 2003.

Detailed (250 kb files)

• Doubles - by Individual

• Doubles - by Alphabetical Order

• Doubles - by Most Golden Doubles per Individual

• Doubles - by Number of strokes away from Achieving a Golden Double

• Doubles - by Score

• Doubles - by Chronological order

• Doubles - by Course / Tournament Location

• Doubles - by Major tournaments

• Doubles - by Flight

• Doubles - by CTP distance

Very Detailed - Includes all flight data (1 MB files. Large, but worth the wait!)

• Doubles - Full Flights - by Date

• Doubles - Full Flights - by Type of double (Gold, Silver, Bronze, etc.)

• Doubles - Full Flights - by Individual

• Doubles - Full Flights - by Score

• Doubles - Full Flights - by Course / Tournament

Eddie Reed Match Play Tournament Statistics  (Thru 2002 Season)

Have you ever wondered which member has, during the 20-year history of the tournament, won the second-most Eddie Reed matches? Anyone with the club for the past few years has witnessed the carnage and knows that certainly Steve Desimone has the most wins, but at second there is more of a pack. Only three members have participated in every tournament. These dedicated members are Steve Desimone, Jack King, and Boyd McCaslin. Over the years there have been 755 matches played, with 126 of them coming from the championship flight. 237 different members have played in the event. Thanks to Steve's organizational skills (he'd saved every single Eddie Reed result) this great bank of data was able to be analyzed. 

• All-Time Eddie Reed Tournament Individual Statistics (290 kb files)
  Lists data pertaining to every Eddie Reed match ever played. Included are each member's win/loss record in championship flight, net flight and both. Data is sortable in 15 different views.

• All-Time Eddie Reed Tournament Placing Statistics (218 kb files)
  This set of pages lists members in relation to number of times they have finished 1st or 2nd in the Eddie Reed Tournament. It also lists each individual's best single-season performance in terms wins and year this occurred. Data is sortable in 10 different views.

Eddie Reed Participation through the Years
(through 2003 season)

Listed below is the Eddie Reed Match Play Tournament participation by year. Sub totals are also listed for Championship flight and net flights. During several years there weren't enough players to generate a championship flight. This year (2004) the Eddie Reed Tournament will see a greater participation than we've had in many years. In fact we'll have more participants than we've had in 20 years (1984). Listed below is the Eddie Reed Match Play Tournament participation by year. Sub totals are also listed for Championship flight and net flights. During several years there weren't enough players to generate a championship flight.

Yearly Eddie Reed Participation Data:
Champ = Championship flight attendance
Net = Net flight attendance

#	Year	Champ	Net	Tot
1	1983		105	105
2	1984		97	97
3	1985		45	45
4	1986		42	42
5	1987	10	30	40
6	1988	12	26	38
7	1989		32	32
8	1990		31	31
9	1991		32	32
10	1992	10	28	38
11	1993	12	25	37
12	1994	14	26	40
13	1995	12	23	35
14	1996	14	27	41
15	1997	13	26	39
16	1998		31	31
17	1999	11	22	33
18	2000	13	31	44
19	2001	9	31	40
20	2002	16	32	48
21	2003	16	32	48

Most Rounds per Year

Which members play the most rounds of golf during a given 12-month span?

The Costs of Golf  (Thru February 2003)

This section examines the rising costs of golf over time. 

Graphs

• Average Tournament Entry Fee over Time - Reveals the rising cost of a round of golf.

• Total Expenses for 28 years - This is a whimsical look at what would happen were someone to invested in various manners the funds required to participate in every UCGC tournament. Of course, no one has played in every tournament. Nevertheless, the measure of joy and liberation one would experience with the golf would be well worth the cost. Besides, the wisest of us realizes it's more about the friendships than the golf, and this is, as the popular commercial states, "priceless".

Raw Data - Below is the raw data used to generate the above graphs.

• Entry Fees since 1976 - by Date - This is an interactive Excel file. Roll the mouse over each point to view course, date, and entry fee.

• Entry Fees since 1976 - by Date.

• Entry Fees since 1976 - by Course.

More Data

Yearly = sum of all tournament entry fees for each year. (1976 incomplete.)
Cumulative = is the running total of the sum of all tournament entry fees for each year.
6% Interest = value of tournament entry fees invested at 6%.
S&P500 Interest = value of tournament entry fees invested in S&P500 over same span of years.

(For a visualization of above data see Total Expenses for 28 years)