Accuracy, Schmaccuracy

Paul Kedrosky on his Infectious Greed blog, uses a graph to show how awful Excel is, but the pay off for the rest of us is his analysis of Tiger’s driving accuracy and distance from 2000-2005.

He concludes that “Tiger's driving accuracy has fallen off much more than his driving distance has increased. At the same time, the gap between Woods and the mass of his professional competitors is much smaller than it was five years ago -- the animation shows this nicely, with a great splotch of competitors all closing in on Woods over the period.”

This is a product of all those guys working out of course! And the better instruction too. Anyway, for Windows Users, right click on your mouse and you can stop the animation in 2000 or 2005, run it backwards and do a bunch of other things. In the loop setting that looks like Doppler radar, it’s great fun to watch the entire Tour get longer and wilder over the five years. Makes you just want to run out to the gym. Or the nearest launch monitor?