Summer Highlights

As the summer golf schedule winds to a close, we continue on our relentless path to bring the most trusted rankings to junior golf. This summer has been another great success for TUGR as we seek to rank more players and more tournaments, than any other system, in the most unbiased and accurate way.

TUGR Continues to grow in a variety of ways and the best is yet to come. Our user growth in the college coaches arena, as well as everyday players, has never been better. Here are a few highlights and up-to-date stats of our system:

• TUGR continues to capture, on average, 25-30% more tournaments per player than other systems. This is because we capture as many Amateur and 1-day events as possible.

• TUGR ranks, on average, 20% more junior golfers than other systems. This is because we capture so many more events in our database.

• TUGR continues to be the most accurate ranking system in golf. The most recent example being the U.S. Junior Amateur where TUGR predicted the outcome of more matches than any other system (by a wide margin).

• TUGR is trusted among college coaches. We’ve never had more coaches using the TUGR Tools than we do today, and many are now moving into their 2nd year as users. Coaches know where they can find accurate and unbiased rankings!

We’re through the busiest part of the season. Because we are a strokes-gained system, we can rank as many events as possible without worrying about the arbitrary constraints that are found in points-based or multi-factor systems.

While we have a small back-log of tournaments to get loaded, it’s always important to remember the depth of the tournament database that we already capture, which as previously mentioned, is upwards of 30% larger than other ranking systems. We will continue to do our best to load special requests as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience!

What to Watch For

The Ryder Cup is just around the corner and it will be interesting to see who Keegan Bradley picks for his 6 captain picks. I have a sneaky feeling that he won’t go 7-12 on the Ryder Cup points rankings. Why? As we’ve said many times, points-based systems do a poor job of “real time” accuracy.

Don’t be surprised if Patrick Cantlay or Sam Burns get picked, even though they are lower on the “official” RC points standings. Both are ranked among the top-12 Americans in both TUGR Pro and another independent strokes-gained ranking system.

Rankings are updated: http://tugr.org

Reach out with any questions - I’ll be travelling for a few days so you may not get a response until the weekend.

Thanks,
Jeff