Capelle On Golf

Tom Watson is playing in the Open this week, so you will see much of him over the first 36 holes and more if he makes the cut no matter what he shoots.
Much talk will be about his stature as the supposed best ever at links golf. The experts base their conclusion on his five [...]

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PGA Tour stats contend that the best ball striker is the player who has the lowest combined ranking in total driving (a bogus stat because it only measures distance on  two holes per round) and GIR (which is also flawed).
If the truth be told, however, the best ball striker is the player who gets the [...]

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In honor of the 101st edition of the Canadian Open, I present the record of Jack Nicklaus in this 107 year old championship (6 years it was not held since 1904), the best player to have never won it!
Seven times over a span of 21 years from 1965-1985 Nicklaus finished second in this event, but [...]

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John Huggan is at it again, siding with Hank Haney while spouting off a litany of questionable opinions,  all for the purpose of defending his good friend and co-author of a couple of instructional books.
And, as with a previous defense of Haney, he waited until we are well into his piece (582 of its 1,370 [...]

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I’m a stat nut, though I try to contain myself in these posts, knowing that to some readers, snail races are of greater interest.
Still, the regular season (minus the useless Fall Series) is rapidly coming to a close and all eyes are on the FedExCup, though other meaningful titles are on the line. Like Greens [...]

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Tiger Woods’ other big years, by his standards, are typically part cold, part red hot. In 2001 he won four if his first 10 starts, then cooled off, winning only one of his last nine. Through the British Open in 2007 he won three of 11events, then closed the season with four wins and a [...]

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It’s official. The Streak is over thanks in part to the golf gods who smiled on Geoff Ogilvy all week long. I mean, how else can you explain a one bogey performance over 72 holes that featured 29 missed fairways off the tee, and a chip that was headed 10 feet past the cup on [...]

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Talk is cheap. It is easy to say that Tiger Woods is so much better now than he was in 2000. Even Woods has been engaging of late in this verbal conditioning, further convincing his opponents that they have no chance. Yes, he can play more shots, and he’s improved his course management. But there [...]

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The World Golf Rankings are the game’s most quoted and respected barometers of golfing supremacy. Still, they are not without their quirks. One of them could be called the Minimum Divisor Rule. A player’s points are divided by no less than 40 no matter how many events a player competes in over the 24 month [...]

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In the first round match of the 2008 Accenture Match Play, Tiger Woods and J.B. Holmes were dead even as they strode to the tee of the 601 yard par five 17th, a three shotter for most pros. But not for these bombers.
After a 320 yard drive into the right rough, Tiger smashed a [...]

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