how do they break a tie in the Masters?
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They don't have too....Phil will win!!!   :)
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Hmm, interesting question, actually, and a practical application of math.  Hey, all you folks who ask what this stuff is good for, here is a real-life situation where you can use it!\n\nGetting to the problem.  Obviously, the contestant to go last spins again if his score is lower than the best score.  If tied, there is a spin-off where his winning chance is 50%; so, if there is a tie, he should respin if he has 45 or less (giving him at least 11 out of 20 good numbers), not spin if he has 55 or more (giving him at most 9 out of 20 good numbers - better to go to the spin-off, where he has a 50% chance), while 50 is a "push".   \n\nNow, for the contestant to go 2nd to last: First, let's assume the first player busts (of course, the second player respins if his score is lower than the first player), which essentially makes this a two-player game.  Based on what number the second player stops on, this is the winnning percentage I calculate for the last player:\n\n100 - 4.875%\n95 - 14.375%\n90 - 23.375%\n85 - 31.875%\n80 - 39.875%\n75 - 47.375%\n70 - 54.375%\n65 - 60.875%  \n60 - 66.875%\n55 - 72.375%\n50 - 77.375%\n\nSo, you may think the second player should respin whenever his odds are under 50%, but that is actually incorrect.  For example, if the second player has 70, giving him a 45.625% chance of winning, respinning would give him a 70% chance of going bust - he is better off stopping with the 45.625% chance.  To determine whether or not respinning improves the second player's chances, a second calculation is needed that considers each of the 20 scores after the second spin - some of them bust the player but the others improve his chance of winning.  Based on that, here is a new table, giving the last player's chance of winning if the second player respins with the score given:   \n\n95 - 95.24375%\n90 - 90.9625%\n85 - 87.13125%\n80 - 83.725%\n75 - 80.71875%\n70 - 78.0875%\n65 - 75.80625%  \n60 - 73.85%\n55 - 72.19375%\n50 - 70.3125%\n45 - 69.68125%\n\nSo, comparing the two tables, the critical points are 55 and 60.  If the second player has 60, he should stop - the last player's chance of winning improves if the second player spins.  At 55, however, the second player should spin, improving his odds by about 0.2%.\n\n\nMoving on to the three player game... now it gets really messy.  The player to go first needs a score that can beat the other two players.  Does he stop on 55 again, hoping the other two players both bust?  He'll need a better score than that to have a 50% chance of winning, but, as was noted in the two-player analysis, stopping with a 30% chance can be better than making a second spin.  As for how to do a complete analysis, uh, beats me.  This may require a computer to do all the math.\n\n* * * * * *\n\nThinking about the three-player game, maybe it isn't as messy as I initially thought - the only additional consideration for the first player, as opposed to the second player, is that either player will stop if the first player's score is beaten.  This can be calculated from the first table.  For this table, listed is the chance of the first player losing (i.e. either player beats him) if he stands on the score given:\n\n100 - 9.51% \n95 - 26.68%\n90 - 41.29%\n85 - 53.59%\n80 - 63.85%\n75 - 72.31%\n70 - 79.18%\n65 - 84.69%\n\nSimilar to the two-player game, I can now calculate the odds if the first player decides to respin.  Since I’m getting a little tired crunching these numbers, for this last table I’ll only list the critical ones:\n\n70 - 83.4%\n65 - 82.3%\n\nIn other words, the first contestant should respin on 65, stop on 70.\n\nIn conclusion, I think the optimum strategies are.....\n\nFirst player: spin on 65, stop on 70\n\nSecond player: spin on 55, stop on 60 (assuming his score at least matches the first player)
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I have been around tennis professionals for quite some time.  I have worked with professionals, I have traveled with professionals, I have given advice to professionals.  At that level of tennis the players are unbelievably talented, I can say without question that it is as close to impossible as you can get.  The odds would be like winning the Super lottery on back to back draws.  That is considering you started with a world class athlete to begin with, and had a team of the best coaches in the world working with him or her 8 hours a day every day.  It would be the same as asking if someone could win a major PGA grandslam event after playing golf for only two years.  For all practical purposes it is impossible, and anyone that says otherwise does not understand the skill level at the professional level.  Anyone that has worked with professionals, i am sure will tell you exactly the same thing.
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I have coached highschool and college tennis, they way most programs work is that you can only challenge two ranking spots above you.  So the most any player could move is two spots.  The way a ladder is established is through round robin play.  That means players are divided into groups according to ability and the members of that group play each other to establish an order.  There are different rules which govern how far a player falls after losing a match.  Some teams have the two players switch positions like player 3 goes to 1 and player 1 goes to 3.  Other programs have player 3 go to one but player 1 goes to two and player 2 is pushed down to the third spot.  These are the most common ways to establish a team ladder or ranking.
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Greetings ...\n\nYahoo's very own PGA golf section has the answer.\n\nCheckout the Links below -- the first is the final 2006 Masters Leaderboard with scores and money earnings. The second is YAHOO's Golf Section\n\nThanx-A-Lot, Frank-0-Golf
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Yes one the challenges you mentally and physically.  Just look at the pressure the players had Sunday of the Masters.  When Tiger was at Stanford, some of the coach's said pound for pound he was the strongest athlete they had.
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How Do I Keep Score?\nScoring in golf is sometimes a mystery to those unfamiliar with the sport because in golf - unlike most other sports and games - it's the person with the lowest score who wins. \nBut golf scoring is as simple as can be. Every time you take a whack at that little white ball, that's a stroke. Every time you make a stroke, count it. At the end of each hole, add up your strokes for that hole and write it down. At the end of the round, add up the strokes for each hole and, there you have it, your golf score.\n\nThere are some other circumstances - for instance, every beginner (every golfer of every level) will have to take penalty strokes here and there. At least, if you're playing strictly by the rules.\n\nBut most simply put, a golf score is the number of times you whacked that little ball around the course.\n\nScore in relation to par is also very easy to understand and compute. Each hole is given a number representing "par" - the number of strokes it should take a golfer to finish that hole. If the par is 4 and you make a 5, then your score in relation to par is 1-over. If the par is 4 and you make a 3, then your score in relation to par is 1-under.\nIf par for the course is 72 and you finished with a 92, then your score is 20-over.\n\nFor penalties, read the rules of golf.
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The first tie-breaker would be wins.\nThe next tie-breaker is the head-to-head season matchup. Goal differential is the next deciding factor.
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Is ladder golf the game with the three rungs of PVC pipe?  That game is awesome.\n\nIf you get your balls to stay on the top rung then you get 3 points, middle is 2 points and bottom is one point. If your piece gets knocked off then it doesn't count.  Also if two players have pieces on the same rung, then neither one counts.
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A golf course has 18 holes. Each hole is given a parr rating of 3, 4 or 5. Average course is 72. A pro should do the course in parr (72) or less. \n\nWhen you start playing golf you have an handycap of 28. So you get 28 extra stokes over the 18 holes. \n\nIf you played against a pro and you went round in 100 and they went round in 72 in would be a draw. If you did it in 99 or less you would win.\n\nHaving a handycap allows different rated players to play against each other.\n\nTo lower your handycap, you play 3 rounds of golf at a course and take the average score.\n\n1st game you do it in 98 ( 2 stokes below your expected of 100)\n2nd game you do it in 96 ( 4 stokes below)\n3rd game you do it in 98 again.\n\nyour average would be 97, which is 3 stokes below your handycap of 100. \n\nCourse 72 plus handycap of 28 = 100. now deduct the 3 stokes from your averaged score over your last 3 holes. Now giving you a handycap of 25.\n\nYou keep playing and try to reduce your handycap to as low as poss. The lower your handycap score the better golfer you become.
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The tie breaking sequence is:\n\na) greatest number of points obtained in all group matches;\nb) goal difference in all group matches;\nc) greatest number of goals scored in all group matches.\n\nIf two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings will be determined as follows (this portion has more importance when more than two teams are tied):\n\na) greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;\nb) goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;\nc) greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the teams concerned;\n\nFinal tiebreaker:\n-Drawing of lots by the Organising Committee for the FIFA World Cup.
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Here's all the players that made the cut, where they finished and the money that they made:\n\nYear Player Finish To Par Score Dollars \n1998 Stuart Appleby Win -10 70-63-69-72 = 274 360,000.00 \n1998 Scott Hoch 2 -9 69-68-68-70 = 275 216,000.00 \n1998 Mark O'Meara T-3 -6 68-70-71-69 = 278 90,200.00 \n1998 Brad Fabel T-3 -6 69-66-70-73 = 278 90,200.00 \n1998 Clark Dennis T-3 -6 70-65-70-73 = 278 90,200.00 \n1998 Tommy Tolles T-3 -6 70-68-66-74 = 278 90,200.00 \n1998 Fred Funk T-3 -6 64-66-71-77 = 278 90,200.00 \n1998 Steve Stricker T-8 -5 70-69-71-69 = 279 58,000.00 \n1998 Hal Sutton T-8 -5 69-69-69-72 = 279 58,000.00 \n1998 Craig Parry T-8 -5 67-66-76-70 = 279 58,000.00 \n1998 Blaine McCallister T-11 -4 70-71-70-69 = 280 48,000.00 \n1998 Steve Flesch T-11 -4 69-68-74-69 = 280 48,000.00 \n1998 Dudley Hart 13 -3 69-71-71-70 = 281 42,000.00 \n1998 John Adams T-14 -2 71-69-72-70 = 282 32,000.00 \n1998 Craig Barlow T-14 -2 71-71-73-67 = 282 32,000.00 \n1998 Willie Wood T-14 -2 73-66-70-73 = 282 32,000.00 \n1998 Ronnie Black T-14 -2 68-68-72-74 = 282 32,000.00 \n1998 Kenny Perry T-14 -2 70-68-74-70 = 282 32,000.00 \n1998 Larry Mize T-14 -2 75-67-72-68 = 282 32,000.00 \n1998 Chris DiMarco T-14 -2 68-65-70-79 = 282 32,000.00 \n1998 Loren Roberts T-21 -1 71-69-70-73 = 283 21,600.00 \n1998 Joe Durant T-21 -1 69-66-74-74 = 283 21,600.00 \n1998 Jay Don Blake T-21 -1 68-70-70-75 = 283 21,600.00 \n1998 Lee Janzen T-21 -1 71-64-79-69 = 283 21,600.00 \n1998 Jerry Kelly T-25 Even 69-72-72-71 = 284 13,718.18 \n1998 Barry Cheesman T-25 Even 72-70-70-72 = 284 13,718.18 \n1998 Jim McGovern T-25 Even 70-70-73-71 = 284 13,718.19 \n1998 Chris Perry T-25 Even 65-74-70-75 = 284 13,718.18 \n1998 Esteban Toledo T-25 Even 69-69-71-75 = 284 13,718.18 \n1998 Joe Ozaki T-25 Even 71-68-70-75 = 284 13,718.18 \n1998 Scott Simpson T-25 Even 71-68-70-75 = 284 13,718.18 \n1998 Justin Leonard T-25 Even 68-67-76-73 = 284 13,718.18 \n1998 Sandy Lyle T-25 Even 70-68-70-76 = 284 13,718.18 \n1998 Lee Porter T-25 Even 72-68-76-68 = 284 13,718.19 \n1998 Dan Forsman T-25 Even 68-69-70-77 = 284 13,718.18 \n1998 J.L. Lewis T-36 +1 67-74-73-71 = 285 9,216.67 \n1998 Brent Geiberger T-36 +1 69-69-73-74 = 285 9,216.66 \n1998 Trevor Dodds T-36 +1 69-70-74-72 = 285 9,216.66 \n1998 Bruce Fleisher T-36 +1 72-70-74-69 = 285 9,216.67 \n1998 Mike Springer T-36 +1 71-70-75-69 = 285 9,216.67 \n1998 Tommy Armour III T-36 +1 67-70-76-72 = 285 9,216.67 \n1998 Jay Haas T-42 +2 69-72-73-72 = 286 5,913.34 \n1998 Jonathan Kaye T-42 +2 70-71-72-73 = 286 5,913.33 \n1998 Joey Sindelar T-42 +2 71-71-71-73 = 286 5,913.33 \n1998 Lee Rinker T-42 +2 71-71-74-70 = 286 5,913.34 \n1998 Glen Hnatiuk T-42 +2 74-67-72-73 = 286 5,913.33 \n1998 P.H. Horgan III T-42 +2 74-68-72-72 = 286 5,913.33 \n1998 Franklin Langham T-42 +2 74-68-72-72 = 286 5,913.34 \n1998 Vijay Singh T-42 +2 70-72-75-69 = 286 5,913.34 \n1998 Mike Weir T-42 +2 67-69-73-77 = 286 5,913.33 \n1998 Michael Muehr T-42 +2 70-69-70-77 = 286 5,913.33 \n1998 Brad Elder T-42 +2 71-63-78-74 = 286 5,913.33 \n1998 Tom Pernice, Jr. T-42 +2 69-70-68-79 = 286 5,913.33 \n1998 Donnie Hammond T-54 +3 70-69-74-74 = 287 4,600.00 \n1998 Woody Austin T-54 +3 68-69-73-77 = 287 4,600.00 \n1998 Brett Quigley T-54 +3 68-69-73-77 = 287 4,600.00 \n1998 Jimmy Johnston T-57 +4 68-70-76-74 = 288 4,460.00 \n1998 Billy Ray Brown T-57 +4 69-73-76-70 = 288 4,460.00 \n1998 Dave Barr T-57 +4 70-68-77-73 = 288 4,460.00 \n1998 Kelly Gibson T-57 +4 71-68-70-79 = 288 4,460.00 \n1998 Tom Byrum T-61 +5 71-70-74-74 = 289 4,280.00 \n1998 Jesper Parnevik T-61 +5 69-71-75-74 = 289 4,280.00 \n1998 Joe Daley T-61 +5 72-70-72-75 = 289 4,280.00 \n1998 Mike Small T-61 +5 68-71-74-76 = 289 4,280.00 \n1998 Doug Barron T-61 +5 70-72-69-78 = 289 4,280.00 \n1998 Tom Lehman T-66 +6 71-66-77-76 = 290 4,120.00 \n1998 Scott Gump T-66 +6 73-69-71-77 = 290 4,120.00 \n1998 Brian Kamm T-66 +6 69-66-78-77 = 290 4,120.00 \n1998 Hugh Royer III 69 +7 71-70-76-74 = 291 4,040.00 \n1998 Bobby Wadkins T-7
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There is usually a large scoreboard by the 18th Green and to be honest, many of them are still mechanically operated. This means that someone will put a card with the player's score manually into a slot, one number for each hole. If a player is under par the number will be in red, if not it will be in black. Note, the scores that are put up are aggregate scores for the entire tournament and not the score they get for that particular hole.
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You get one stroke everytime you hit the ball.  Now can play counting total score or play by holes.  When you play by holes you when the hole you get 1 you tie 0 and lose -1.  \n\nI fun way to learn about golf scores is playing a game called Golo golf.  You can play it on line at www.igolo.com\n\nor another site would be www.playgolfamerica.com
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Don't walk on the path of someones ball on the green, replace divots and yell FORE if the ball is approaching anther group
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how is this a golf question?
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The Masters is all about tradition. This uniform has been used since Ben Hogan was a boy. The African Americans ie..  were the only race allowed to caddy for a long time at Augusta and it helped to identify that they were legally allowed to be on the premises.