Golf-Probability Question

[David Sklansky]

I think the answer is about 10,000. Assuming all the players played 72 holes. The reason I thought of the question had to do with the fact that those few times that a women played with the men, the announcers made a big deal of the fact that hey beat 20% of them or so.

[woodguy]

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WHY I HAVE BEEN PUT ON THIS EARTH.

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Who put you here?

Are you on a fault?

Regards,
Woodguy

[Troll_Inc]

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I think the answer is about 10,000. Assuming all the players played 72 holes. The reason I thought of the question had to do with the fact that those few times that a women played with the men, the announcers made a big deal of the fact that hey beat 20% of them or so.

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Show your work!

BTW, this question has several flaws. First, you clearly don't understand how golf tournaments work, unless you are watching the 'Champions Tour'. You play 36 holes, and then there is a cut-line, which would decide who beats 141st place in an imaginary 150 person tournament.

Second, nowhere near 10 million people have published handicaps. And a reasonable argument is that there aren't too many golfers capable of 2-3 handicaps that don't already have USGA handicaps.

Also, the question would be better phrased such that you are playing a tournament against the top 150 PGA scoring pros and then specify an actual course.

But it is an interesting question that points out that the variance seen among golf scores (even of the very very elite) allows a lesser golfer shooting a 50 percentile score to beat a pro shooting their 7% percentile score.

[Dormie]

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What, approximately is x?

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mathematically, you can't ask approx what is x
x is an absolute
as he/she is a given player

x = 151
i say who is a player currently on the nationwide tour

(could annika or michelle wye make the nationwide tour)
or
(could annika or michelle be the 151th player)