Ep89: Rankings Listener Qs & debrief

We are joined by stats guru Assoc Prof Dr Davis McCarthy for this episode as we do a post-mortem on the inaugural Australian Golf Passport rankings.

We debrief on the process of releasing our own rankings list and tackle almost two hours of listener questions on the rankings, the panel and the process of crunching the numbers.

Davis chats about the statistical process behind the final positions, about how fine the margins are between some courses, and what could be done for the next rankings to produce an even more robust result.

The discussion moves around a little as we get to various questions, and occasionally discuss specific courses, and golf centric topics like grass, routing, and more.  Thanks so much to Davis for all his expertise and help - we couldn;t have done it without him!

Davis’ bio is here for those interested - https://www.svi.edu.au/researchers/dr-davis-mccarthy/

The books we mentioned during the episode:

Grounds for Golf by Geoff Shackelford

Golf Architecture for Normal People by Geoff Shackelford

Spirit of St Andrews by Alister MacKenzie

Two GCA threads mentioned in the podcast:

St Andrews Beach review by Kyle Henderson

How to assess a golf course architecturally

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