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Capstone Projects

Modern Statistics Correlations and Predicting Scoring Average on the Professional Golf Association Tour

Program: Data Science Master's
Location: Not Specified (remote)
Student: Patrick McCarthy

Analysis of the various skills required to be a competitive golfer on the PGA (Professional Golf Association) Tour. The objective is to identify what statistics have a strong correlation with Scoring average and if there have been any new statistics created in the early 2000’s that show a strong relationship with success. Also part of the objective is to use the information learned from correlation analysis to build an appropriate regression model to predict the Scoring Average.