Notes on model-driven golf research.
Shane Lowry ran away with the 2026 Amgen Irish Open at Doonbeg by a record 11-shot margin, finishing on 23 under par. Here is what the field data flagged before round one, and how our research selections fared against the exposed links test.
A data-led look at the 2026 BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth's West Course, a long parkland test where driving control, approach play and the par fives decide the DP World Tour's flagship week.
A data-led profile of Le Golf National's Albatros course near Paris, the 2018 Ryder Cup stadium test where accuracy and approach play beat raw distance.
A research profile of Kingsbarns Golf Links, the modern Kyle Phillips links on the Fife coast and the most gettable of the three Alfred Dunhill Links venues.
A research profile of Carnoustie's Championship Course, one of the sternest links tests in golf and a Dunhill Links venue, from its eight Opens to the Barry Burn.
A data-led profile of the Old Course at St Andrews, the home of golf and headline venue of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, and what its wind, firm ground and famous hazards reward.
The 2026 Omega European Masters ended with Thriston Lawrence beating Paul Casey in a four-hole play-off at Crans-sur-Sierre, both men finishing on 18 under. It was Lawrence's third Swiss Alps title, a record he now shares with Seve Ballesteros. Here is how the leaderboard settled and what our pre-tournament course-fit read looked like afterwards.
Trump International Golf Links at Doonbeg, County Clare, is a Greg Norman links course of roughly 7,400 yards, par 72, laid through natural dunes on the Atlantic coast. It hosts the 2026 Amgen Irish Open. This profile sets out the skills the course rewards and the data signals worth watching on a true seaside links.
The strongest golf stats sites in 2026 each do one thing best. DataGolf is built for deep predictive modelling, RotoWire for fantasy and DFS, Action Network and SportsLine for betting content and expert picks, and ProPlace for whole-field probability analysis across both main tours with a published, timestamped record of every selection. Pick by the job you are doing.
The Amgen Irish Open is the DP World Tour's national open of Ireland, played from 10 to 13 September 2026 at Trump International Golf Links, Doonbeg, in County Clare. It is a genuine west-coast links, exposed to Atlantic wind and firm ground, where control of ball flight and short-game recovery tend to matter more than raw distance.
A data-led look at the 2026 Omega European Masters at Crans-sur-Sierre, where a short, high-altitude mountain course rewards accuracy and iron play over length.
Eight selections published before play across two tours over the week of 27 August. One of them placed. Here is every finish, unedited, with two disclosures about the data behind them.
Crans-sur-Sierre is a par 70 mountain test at roughly 1,500 metres. Altitude stretches every carry and turns the Omega European Masters into a birdie shootout where iron play and course knowledge matter more than raw length.
A research-led profile of East Lake Golf Club, permanent home of the PGA TOUR season finale: course character, format, history, and what a 30-player, no-cut, level-par field does to the numbers.
Yes, you can. Every input we use comes from public tournament and shot data. The real question is whether you want to spend the hours, and whether your version would be consistent enough to be worth anything.
Eight selections published on 17 August, three days before the first round. One of them placed. Here is every finish, unedited, with two disclosures about the data behind them.
ProPlace does not tell you what to stake, does not tell you who will win, does not cover every tour, and does not work in play. Here is the full list, so you can decide against it if it is not for you.
A player card is the model's whole read on one player in one week, on a single tile: who they are, what the market says, how the components score, and how strongly those components agree.
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No. A tipster sells you a short list and asks you to follow it. ProPlace ranks the whole field before play, publishes the method behind the ranking, and archives what happened afterwards.
The 2026 British Masters returns to the Brabazon Course at The Belfry from 27 to 30 August. A look at what the course asks of a field, and how a whole-field model reads a week like it.
A day by day walkthrough of a tournament week with ProPlace: the Monday free card, the timestamped whole-field ranking, the live tracker, and the public archive afterwards.
Nothing is charged on day eight. The ProPlace trial takes an email only, so there is no payment to cancel and no automatic renewal. Here is exactly what stays, what stops, and what it costs to carry on.
Divide one by the decimal odds and multiply by 100. That is the whole formula. The interesting part is what implied probability does not tell you, and why a golf outright market always adds up to more than 100 per cent.
Every Monday ProPlace publishes one complete player analysis card from that week's field, free and in full. Here is exactly what is on it, how to get it, and what it does not tell you.
A no cut event guarantees every player in the field four rounds and a cheque. Here is what that changes about how the week actually plays out.
Both of our 13 August cards settled as losing weeks. Here is every selection as it was published before play, beside the finish it actually produced.
Almost all of the work happens before the tournament starts. Here is the day-by-day walkthrough of a tournament week, including the parts that might make you decide no.
The drive, and it is not close. But the reason is not the yardage, and that is where almost every version of this argument goes wrong.
Finishing 20th in a full-strength field is a materially better week than finishing 20th in a depleted one. Here is how strength of field works and how to read it.
Four selections were published on 3 August, three days before the first tee shot. None of them placed. Here is the full record of what went out and what came back.
Once you are past the beginner stage, iron and wedge play into the green separates scores more than driving distance or putting. Here is how to measure and improve it.
Most missed short putts are an aiming problem, not a stroke problem. Here is how to tell the difference in ten minutes on the practice green.
One place from four at the Rocket Classic. Patrick Cantlay finished tied 8th, the other three missed the frame, and the week cost £20 to a flat £10 each-way stake. Here is the whole card.
Most amateurs lose three to five shots a round to decisions rather than technique, and those losses sit in a handful of doubles. Here is why the middle of the green and one more club fix more of them than any swing thought.
Giving every part of your game equal practice time is the slowest way to improve. Here is the order the strokes-gained data suggests for a mid-handicapper chasing scratch, and how to spend your practice hours accordingly.
Short game rarely feels like the problem, because the damage shows up a shot later. Here is what strokes gained around the green measures, why scrambling percentage flatters you, and how to check whether this is your real leak.
Sedgefield asks a different question from most of the season. Here is how we think about a short, positional Donald Ross par 70 in the last week before the Playoffs, and how to research it yourself.
For the vast majority of amateur golfers, sharper approach play lowers your score faster than extra driving distance. Here is why, in strokes-gained terms.
The short answer: it is almost never your stroke. It is your first putt finishing well past the hole or well short of it. Fix pace and the three-putts largely dry up.
No hype, no promises. Here is exactly what a ProPlace subscription puts in front of you each tournament week, and just as importantly, what it does not.
A caddie's-eye guide to Wentworth's West Course ahead of the BMW PGA Championship — the Els redesign, the closing par 5s, and what the setup rewards.
Our 3M Open research reviewed against the result — Jackson Koivun's record win, where our four picks landed, and an honest look at a small red week.
Ryan Fox won at Royal Birkdale. Here is every ProPlace selection for The Open, graded honestly: two placed, two missed the cut, and what the model read right.
Both 3M Open winners in our archive won with their irons and a cold putter. The top ten did the opposite. What TPC Twin Cities actually asks of a player.
Strokes gained measures a single shot against the tour-average number of strokes needed to hole out from that spot. Here is the plain-English version, the four categories, and how to use it on your own game.
Every route into the 154th Open at Royal Birkdale, explained — exemptions, the Open Qualifying Series, Final Qualifying and the R&A's new Last-Chance Qualifier.
A strokes-gained look at how the last four Genesis Scottish Open winners arrived at the Renaissance Club — and what the winning week demanded.
What each-way means in golf, how place terms work, and why place probability is the smarter way to read a leaderboard.
A new weekly series. Each week we ask what the players who have actually won here tell us about the golf a course rewards. First up: Royal Birkdale.
What each-way means in golf, how place terms and dead heats work, and why 156-player fields make each-way maths worth understanding before you research.
Which golf stats actually carry signal on a links course? A plain-English guide to strokes gained, wind, scrambling and draw luck. Research, not tips.
Ryan Fox won the 154th Open at Royal Birkdale at 10 under. The final leaderboard, how the redesigned course played, and answers to the questions people actually ask.
An honest month-in-review of ProPlace's June 2026 selections across the PGA Tour and DP World Tour - the wins, the missed cuts, and why we publish all of it.
How Royal Birkdale rewards accuracy, wind play and scrambling — updated with how the redesigned course actually played at the 154th Open, won by Ryan Fox at 10 under.
Tom Kim at 17 under in Scotland, Ryan Fox at 10 under at Birkdale. What golf's 2026 links fortnight taught us about wind, control and the limits of pattern-matching.
Tom Kim won the 2026 Scottish Open at 17 under with a bogey-free Sunday 64. What our pre-tournament read got right at The Renaissance Club — and what it missed.
How the ProPlace PGA Tour model ranks every player in the field on eight weighted factors, scores conviction out of 10, and surfaces the gap to market consensus.
3 pricing options, identical features. Here is what monthly, annual, and the 7-day free trial actually include, and how to decide between them.
Action Network gives you expert picks and betting percentages. ProPlace gives you full-field rankings with a transparent methodology. Here is how they differ.
RotoWire is built for DFS lineups and expert picks; ProPlace ranks the whole field by model-versus-market gap. An honest look at which tool fits your research.
A conviction score out of 10 tells you how cleanly the data lines up behind a player — and how much weight a model-versus-market gap deserves. Here's how ours works.
Full access from day one. No restricted features, no teaser content. Here is precisely what the ProPlace 7-day free trial gives you.
What ProPlace does, where it works well, and where it has limits - so you can decide whether it fits how you research PGA Tour and DP World Tour events.
A structured, data-driven approach to researching any PGA Tour event in 2026 - from the inputs that actually matter to building a coherent view of the field.
Why we built ProPlace around one number: the gap between what our model expects and what the market believes. How it works, when to trust it — and when not to.
If you want ranked model-vs-consensus gaps, conviction scores, and plain-English summaries instead of raw probability tables, ProPlace is the alternative.
SportsLine tells you who to pick. ProPlace shows you where the data and the consensus diverge - ranked by signal strength and scored by conviction.
Start with the gap, not the player. A practical method for finding value across full PGA Tour and DP World Tour fields.