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Professor of Business at Columbia University
About Dr. Mark Broadie
In 2011, while analyzing over 5 million PGA Tour shots in a Columbia University basement lab, Mark Broadie didn’t just tweak existing golf stats, he rebuilt the language of performance from first principles. He realized that every shot’s value depends entirely on context: distance, lie, pin position, and what came before, not just whether it landed on the green. That insight birthed Strokes Gained, a metric that quantifies exactly how many strokes a player gains or loses relative to the field on each shot type, driving, approach, around-the-green, putting. Unlike traditional stats like 'greens in regulation,' which obscure cause and effect, Strokes Gained isolates skill, exposes hidden strengths (like Bryson DeChambeau’s short-game underperformance in 2020), and reshaped coaching, equipment R&D, and broadcast analysis. Broadie’s work sits at the rare intersection of academic rigor and real-world adoption: the PGA Tour adopted it officially in 2016, not because it sounded clever, but because it passed the test of predictive validity across decades of data.
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- “How did you validate Strokes Gained against historical tour data before 2011?”
- “What does Strokes Gained reveal about Tiger Woods’ 2000 U.S. Open performance that traditional stats missed?”
- “Why did you choose strokes—not expected score or probability—as the fundamental unit?”
- “How do amateur golfers misinterpret their own Strokes Gained reports?”