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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

How a Hole’s Par Changes a Player’s Strategy

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

University of Denver Professor Andrew Urbaczewski and Ryan Elmore join the podcast to discuss their paper on Loss Aversion in Professional Golf. Andrew and Ryan took a look at the effect that the change in par on the 2nd hole at Pebble Beach and 9th ...

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another edition of the fried egg podcast.

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0:23.7

today I'm joined by professor Andrew Urbachesky and Ryan Elmore from the

0:29.1

University of Denver's Department of Business Information and Analytics.

0:34.3

Andrew and Ryan put together a study on loss aversion and professional golf,

0:38.4

specifically looking at how changing the power of a whole in the U.S. Open affects scoring. I won't spoil the

0:44.8

podcast but this study has some implications for professional golfer and the way

0:50.0

golfers think overall. So without further ado here's Andrew and Ryan.

0:54.7

I'm Miss Agreen for example I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really

0:59.2

upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg

1:06.4

fried egg lie I'm about ready to run off the golf course So, So you guys are both at the University of Denver in business analytics. How did this

1:38.0

paper that you wrote about loss aversion and professional golf come about.

1:43.4

I think it was really as we were working on another paper that was looking at streaks in golf

1:50.8

and that we had been working on for a while and can I had a graduate assistant

1:55.0

compiled a bunch of the data that was looking at are is there really a such thing as

2:01.3

the hot hand and we've seen plenty of research on the hot hand

2:04.4

in basketball, in baseball, lots of different domains.

2:11.5

And then we started thinking about it in golf that is there really a such thing as the

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