Wigs on the Green

Introduction This is the second part of a discussion about variance in golf.

Introduction Well, we’re finally here: the discussion of variance in golf I’ve been working on for months.

Lately the articles here have been extremely focused on programming, so I thought I’d write something quick about an interesting concept for tees that I’ve been thinking about.

Image from Ecole polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay.

Over the last couple of months on this blog, I’ve been teasing updates – in mostly academic terms – to the strategic golf course visualizer I began building back at the beginning of the year.

Dale Watson & His Lone Stars So, it’s been a few months Even though I try to publish something about every month, when I started this blog I promised myself that I would never go down the “content for content’s sake” path.

In my previous article, I Spent the Last Month and a Half Building a Model that Visualizes Strategic Golf, I laid out the very basics of the golf model I built, the underlying reason that compelled me to work on it, and novel maps it could create.

For the last month and a half, I’ve been working nonstop on a project attempting to illustrate what I believe to be a new way to look at golf design.

The name of this Substack is an archaic colloquialism that means a fist fight between gentlemen, and I want to make sure I’m not immune to criticism.

Iona is a small Scottish island off the coast of Mull, another island.

The 17th green, with the fifth fairway and tee beyond.

After a brief discussion with my partner about why I can quickly write a coherent essay about a golf topic on golf forums, yet it takes me weeks to write a long form article for this site, she suggested I try adapting these post to short form articles.

Aikman, George and John Smart. 1st Hole Out, Machrihanish. 1893.

Harry Rountree’s illustration of Gullane in Bernard Darwin’s The Golf Courses of the British Isles.

The results are in for the Ace Valley Hole Design Contest, hosted by Fried Egg Golf and Staples Golf Design, and my entry did not win.

Harry Rountree’s illustration of Mrs Forman’s Pub at Musselburgh Links in Bernard Darwin’s The Golf Courses of the British Isles. while we are within hail of Edinburgh, we must pay a visit to Musselburgh, the home of the Parks and once the home of the cha…

I’ve just returned from Scotland and as I’ve just also finished writing a number of articles about course reviews, I thought I would give my thoughts on a few from my recent trip.

Researching historic golf photography is one of my hobbies, so when a friend recently reached out about contributing to a new public golf magazine, I was happy to help.

As a quick follow up to my posts about the relationships between golf media and exclusive golf clubs, I felt I should briefly discuss the recent coverage of Cypress Point Club.

In a previous article, I wrote about course rating frameworks.