Pebble Beach Pro-Am Recap

Hey folks! Back here with the data sickos recap of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Got some amazing response on last week's post with some great ideas for what to include this week. Will keep these going as long as people are interested in this nerdy stuff. Let's get into it...

Player Round Awards

Roller Coaster Round: Justin Rose (13 out of 18 non-pars in the first round)

Clean Sheet: Kurt Kitayama -16 pars on Saturday.

Hot Nine: Sam Burns: 29 (-7) on the back 9 on Thursday

Disaster Nine: Adam Schenk: 42 (+6) on the back 9 on Saturday. More on Adam's 9 holes later.

• Edit: Thanks to BestShaunaEU for pointing out that Michael Thorbjornsen actually had the worst 9 holes. My data feed wasn't set up to handle quads correctly lmao.

Player Tournament Awards

• Most Under Par Holes: Sepp Straka, 28 under par holes

• Most Chaotic Holes (eagles or double bogey +): Rory McIlroy, 6 extreme holes

• Sandbagger (largest spread between best and worst round): Ryo Hisatsune: -10 on Thursday and +2 on Saturday

• Eagle Eye: Scottie Scheffler - 4 eagles, Jake Knapp - 4 eagles

• Double Trouble: Brian Campbell - 5 double bogey + holes

Hole Streaks

A streak is defined as any stretch of 3 or more holes where every hole is under par or over par. Streaks here have to all be under par or over par (e.g. 2 birdies, a bogey, and another birdie wouldn't count as a streak)

The best streak of holes this week belonged to Wyndham Clark, who went -6 in 5 holes on Saturday, starting on the 11th hole. Interestingly enough, he double bogeyed the 9th hole before going off over the next 5 holes.

On the negative side, Adam Schenk had a series of holes that looked like something many of us might do. On Saturday, he played a 3-hole stretch at 6 over. He bogeyed the 12th hole, doubled the 13th, and tripled the 14th. If he were to have continued that pace for the remaining four holes, he would have ended the round with a 12 on 18 for a 9-hole score of 64. Fortunately, he got back on track and parred the final four holes.

Yo-Yo Award: Shout out to rufus102 for this idea! This is the player with the most consecutive holes under par then over par (or vice versa).

The inaugural winner of the Yo-Yo Award is Daniel Berger. On Saturday, he had the following stretch of holes on the front 9, starting on #2:

• Birdie, Bogey, Birdie, Bogey, Birdie, Bogey

• He followed that up with another bogey which doesn't technically count towards the streak but still another shape on the scorecard.

• He bookended this 9 holes with pars on either side. Started with a par, went demon mode for 7 holes, then settled back down for another par.

(May also call this the Michael Scott Vasectomy award going forward....this is newsletter #2, still workshopping)

Overperformers

T8. Nico Echavarria -18 (61 spots better than pre-tournament odds)
T19. Brian Harman -15 (50 spots better than pre-tournament odds)
T14. Tom Hoge -17 (46 spots better than pre-tournament odds)

Underperformers

T78. Michael Thorbjornsen +9 (64 spots worse than pre-tournament odds)
T75. Daniel Berger +2 (55 spots worse than pre-tournament odds)
T56. Viktor Hovland -6 (54 spots worse than pre-tournament odds)

And I guess if you care about this sort of thing, Collin Morikawa won the tournament after being one of last week's top 3 underperformers. That means a win is coming next week for Thorbjornsen, Berger, or Hovland. Guaranteed.

Random Stuff

The camera found Min Woo Lee late on Sunday and say what you want about the kid, he knows what to do when the camera is on him. Instantly delivered of of the funniest moments of the tournament.

Without a doubt the best thing to happen in this tourney is NOT Collin Morikawa winning and then revealing that he and his wife are expecting a child (congratulations to the Morikawas!). Unfortunately, Collin was upstaged by Michael Thorbjornsen wrapping up his round on Sunday.

Michael had a decent even par round going through 16 holes. But the wheels came off on the par 3 17th with a triple bogey. Somehow, things actually got worse on the 18th, which is among the easiest holes on the course. Michael made a quadruple bogey NINE to finish his round. Even par through 16 holes, finishes +7....one of us.

Thanks for reading!