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Old 10-28-2024, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy View Post
I follow @LouStagner on twitter. He is a golf stats guy, and coaches the Princeton Men's golf team, and caddies in USGA amateur tournaments.

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However, if you read enough of Lou's posts, you will realize that most 65 y/o and above should not be playing the back two tee boxes based upon their age/expected/average distance off the tees anyway. . one can be scratch at the men's forward tees. . .

Lou Stagner is a 1st class jerk. He's an assistant coach at Princeton, who provides them with statistical analysis. Lou's not much of a golfer, I'd play him at scratch any day and I have 30+ years on him. His X account is one of the worst examples of engagement farming I've seen in the golf community.

As soon as someone calls him out on his nonsense, Lou disappears. IMO, his understand of golf stats is no better than a 16 year old boy's understand of sex.

If you want to follow someone from Arccos who knows what he's talking about, follow @hutch_golf. Hutch is not only a stat guy at Arccos, he plays at scratch and just won his club championship.

Being a finance guy, you already know this ... statistics are only as good as the raw input. Arccos' stats aren't representative and rife with errors and Lou comes erroneous conclusions. Lou brags about their "2 billion shot" database, but has no interest in putting his "conclusions" into context, only tossing hand grenades over the transom, to generate "hits". (I have a friend at Arccos, who's about 8 steps above Lou on the food chain, so I have a little extra insight).

Sorry to get wound up, but Lou Stagner is the Kardashian of golf "statisticians".

Last edited by BrianL99; 12-01-2024 at 05:42 PM.