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Data Sickos Recap: The Masters

(Graphics, scorecards, and videos are best viewed on web) Rory McIlory won the 2026 Masters to become only the fourth player to win back-to-back Green Jackets. As amazing as that was to watch, there won't be much discussion of Rory here in the Garbage Time recap today. For

The Second Nine at Augusta: Hole-by-Hole Data From the Last 25 Years

Hello, friends. It's Masters week which means it's time to pull an absurd amount of data and see what kinds of crazy and interesting stuff we can find. This is the third article in our Masters series, the first goes into some of the wildest scorecards

The First Nine at Augusta: Hole-by-Hole Data From the Last 25 Years

Hello, friends. It's Masters week which means it's time to pull an absurd amount of data and see what kinds of crazy and interesting stuff we can find. This is the second article in our Masters series, the first goes into some of the wildest scorecards

The most insane Masters scorecards from the past 25 years

Holes Best score Times Who did it 2 holes –4 4× Phil Mickelson, 2010 R3 Webb Simpson, 2018 R4 Sam Burns, 2024 R1 Dustin Johnson, 2009 R4 3 holes –5 3× Phil Mickelson, 2010 R3 Sam Burns, 2024 R1 Dustin Johnson, 2009 R4 4 holes –5 12× Luke Donald, 2005

Data Sickos Recap: Texas Children's Houston Open

(Graphics, scorecards, and videos are best viewed on web) A couple weeks after I whined about a robotic Cam Young victory at The Players, Gary Woodland won this week in one of the most emotional victories in recent memory. Look at this – Min Woo Lee is hyping up the crowd

MM Round 1 Recap: Eddie Munyak is the GOAT

Note: Tables & graphics are best viewed on the web version of the site. Round 1 is done and it delivered some incredible moments, like VCU's flutist single-handedly bringing them back from a 19-point deficit against UNC. she is playing the hell out of that flute 🫡 [image or

March Madness - Garbage Time Stat Preview

While I was messing around in my March Madness data model that is sure to lose to all of my nieces and nephews, I got distracted and decided to look up the most absurd stat lines of the season for players participating in this year's NCAA tournament. Because

The Players Championship - Data Sickos Recap

Cameron Young won The Players Championship yesterday. The bare-bones sentence above is apparently all that went through his brain as he did it. His reaction to the biggest professional accomplishment of his life was... "Ok." I am conflicted because he was objectively doing very cool stuff yesterday. An

A Hater's Guide to #17 at The Players

As a spectator, the island* green on the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass has the most obvious appeal of any golf hole in the world. I don't know if it's the best hole, I'll let others litigate that. But I am a simple man.

The Wildest Stuff from 24 Years of The Players

As we approach golf's fifth major [citation needed], we decided to pull as much TPC data as possible. We pulled every round by every player since 2001, below you'll see the stupidest and/or funniest stuff we found in the data. Let's start with

Arnold Palmer Invitational - Data Sickos Recap

Hey folks! Welcome to Garbage Time Sports, the newsletter that at least one person asked for. I'm a data analyst that loves digging into statistics that I don't widely see represented. Most of the time, that looks like dumb stuff that I am interested in, like