Grades for Tiger's Performance (Hero 2017)

[Veteran Golf Fan]

38 minutes ago, iacas said:

He finished middle of the field. In a field of 154 that’s about T70. He fell back on Saturday so he’d have made the cut and fallen back.

Even if you want to say T40, that’s well back.

What makes you think he would finish T40?  He fired another really good round on Sunday and would have left the journeymen in his wake.

[iacas]

10 minutes ago, Veteran Golf Fan said:

What makes you think he would finish T40?  He fired another really good round on Sunday and would have left the journeymen in his wake.

He finished in the middle of the field in a tournament without a cut.

The middle of the field in a 154-player field is 77th. So give a little weight to the stronger than average field, and I put him as finishing T40. Tough to make a case for him finishing much higher than that. T9/18 is middle of the pack, T40 is almost top quartile.

Let's consider another method. He finished 10 back of the winner. 10 back of the winner at the Shriners was T51 or so.

Virtually anyone can win on the PGA Tour these days. The days of journeymen just hoping to scrape together enough made cuts to earn a living and maybe keep their Tour card for the next year are long gone. The level of competition now is much, much higher than back in the days of "rabbits" and true "journeymen." The guys playing now have been playing high-level competitive golf since they were like eight years old.

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And… I'm just saying, you can't say "he finished top 10, and some players didn't even get a top ten all year" as if they're at all equivalent statements. He finished top-ten in a field with fewer than 20 players. He finished exactly in the middle of the pack. It's great - he showed flashes of great play, had a disappointing Saturday, led the tournament briefly on Friday… all good stuff. But let's not get carried away by a T9/18 finish. It's not the same as a T9 in a full field event.