Sunday, November 20, 2011

Why The US Won The Presidents Cup.

Outside of the obvious, "We won more matches", "We scored more points",  there's one real forehead slapping reason the US squad won this year's and most year's Presidents Cup competitions. We have better players.

According to the Official World Golf Ranking points system as of 11/18/2011 the average ranking of the 12 US players was 18.5. The Internationals 34.6. The 19th ranked player in the world would typically beat the 35th ranked player over a series of matches.

So sorry Uncle Albert.
Ain't math great?







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2 comments:

  1. Golf Outing GiftsNovember 21, 2011 at 1:33:00 PM EST

    I agree, but why then do we get our asses handed to us in the Rider Cup? Is the European squad better than ours? I don't think so...

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  2. Average GolferNovember 21, 2011 at 1:52:00 PM EST

    Good question... as of 10/3/10, the time of the last Ryder Cup, 5 Euros were in the top ten OWGR v. 4 Americans.

    http://dps.endavadigital.net/owgr/doc/content/archive/2010/owgr40f2010.pdf

    Ryder has been more even in talent I believe, plus the Euro team spends a ton of time traveling and hanging together, which I think is a factor, though not as big as many think.

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