Charts
1/24/07
The LPGA was the first tour to set up some sort of season long
points system in an effort to increase the participation of the
top players. In our opinion it is kind of clunky and does not work
well. According to our data for 2006 it has not changed anything!
Participation percentage of top 100 players in all regular
season events by:
As you can see by the numbers, no matter how you count them, participation of top players in the LPGA has
gone down and the number of players has increased.
We will provide new table at end of year.
We are not making a separate percentage chart for the LPGA because
their participation levels has always been so consistent year to year. We will make one after the season for all players.
This is a reflection of what we observed in 2006. Once
a player knew she was in the championship, there was no need to compete
every week. And certainly no need to compete in the second half
and travel over seas. We noticed a distinct drop in participation
in the second half of US based players. We don't blame the
players, there is just not enough prize money to justify the
travel.
We have a chart that shows the number of total player
participation through each event for these years.
Click
here for LPGA total participation
We also have a
summary chart that shows how many players played in a certain
number of events.
Click here
for LPGA event count..
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Charts
1/25/07
The PGA set up the FedEx Cup to increase participation of the top
players. We have determined that That the top 125 players are the
ones that are going to determine if strategy is going to work. To
that end we have now created a chart to give a visual look at
whether or not the top 125 players have increased their percent
participation.
We will up date this after every event. We averaged 2005 2006 to
get a comparison line. We used the average because there was so
little difference between 2005 and 2006 the lines would have been
on top of each other. We have data both for our PGR ranking and by
money won.
To see chart
click here.
As you can see by the numbers, no matter how you
count them, participation of top players in the PGA has been
substantially less than the LPGA.
It will be interesting to see how they compare as this year goes
on.
We had estimated last year
that there would be 250 full PGA members who would qualify for
FedEx Cup points. We were wrong. There are 299 full members. We
also estimated in the same page we lose some 350 non-members. That
is now revised, we expect to lose some 300 non-members and 160 members will not
make any significant money.
We have a chart that shows the number of total player
participation through each event for these years.
Click
here for PGA total participation chart.
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What can be done?
They should use our ranking system for the entire season. This
would require greater participation of the players. Instead
of two halves use the US versus the international like we already
have. If they think big enough, they have the seeds for the first
world wide playoffs between tours.
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What else is going to be affected?
The number of events a player participates in. We have a
summary chart that shows how many players played in a certain
number of events.
Click here
for PGA event count chart..
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The LPGA has 197 on their money list for 2006 with a
median of $76,717, we have 297 with a median of $32,036. Our chart
show this total and the number at $30,000, $100,000 and $300,000 or
more. Click
here for chart.
As you can see from all these charts the ADT points system has
failed to accomplish this goal.
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The PGA has 263 with a median prize of $601,928 on their 2006 money list
and we have 364 with a median of $304,196. Therefore it seemed
reasonable to show the total number of players as the year progressed
and the number of players making at least $100,000, $300,000 and those
that made over a million. Click
here for chart
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