Notes on model-driven golf research.
Four flagged, none placed. Jordan Smith came closest in a share of 14th; the others finished further back or missed the cut. The week cost £80 to a flat £10 each-way stake, and it is already in the record.
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.