Partner Effects in Golf by Divij Jain '25

Partner Effects in Golf by Divij Jain ’25, Wednesday May 7, 1:00 – 1:50pm, North Science Building 015, Wachenheim, Statistics Thesis Defense

Do golfers influence the performance of their playing partners? In this talk, we use PGA tournament data to develop a new metric for player performance, and we conduct statistical modeling, centered on LASSO regression, to identify players who show evidence of affecting their partners’ performance. To validate our methods, we simulate data that closely mirrors the structure of PGA tournament data, designate certain players as influential, and assess whether our approach correctly identifies the influential players.