BEYOND COMPREHENSIBLE

I opened up my browser and typed in what is the probability of a golfer with an 8 handicap shooting one under par. After about 15 minutes of a rotating circle, Siri could not come up with an answer. Determine to find the answer to this baffling event I turn to my good friend Neil deGrasse Tyson who is a well- known American astrophysicist and science communicator who’s also the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Tyson, who earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Columbia, in other words, one smart ass guy who I felt without a doubt would have the answer for me. After 2 days went by I called to check his findings. He told me he needed more data to finish his study. So I sent him some other scores from previous rounds 89,80,87,87 and 71. The next day he reported back to me his findings... a net differential is the subtraction of a player's Handicap Index from the Handicap Differential for a particular score. This becomes a negative value when the player scores much better than the player's Handicap Index. Example: A player with a Handicap Index of 8.0 shoots a 71 from a set of tees with a USGA Course Rating of 71.2 and a Slope Rating of 126. (71 – 71.2) = .2 x 113 / 126 = .179 Handicap Differential .179 - 8 = -7.8 Net Differential (round up to -8) From the chart below, the odds are 4,467 to 1 of this occurring. The average golfer plays 46 rounds a year so we don't have to worry about Mr. Adaway for roughly another 100 years. I was still not satisfied with Neil summation so I made one more call to my main man, Butch Harmon, you know Tiger's old swing coach. So I sent Butch the video of  Adaway's swing. Butch sent it back saying "I've seen better swings on a porch. Happy Gilmoreish!" Still scratching my head and wondering how did this happen I thought of one more good friend, Mr. Lonnie Knowles, Attorney at Law, who is probably one of the best in the city but it was not his legal advice I needed. A few months ago Lonnie played against Chad in the Ryder Cup and beat him 4 and 2. So, I thought, Lonnie would be the person who could help me wrap my head around this. Lonnie didn't even remember Chad.  'Thank You, Lonnie...for nothing!"  Well, it's time to wrap up this article. I hope to have put enough subliminal contents in this write up to draw to only one inescapable conclusion that Chad Adaway just came out and kicked everyone's ass. The 9 shot victory and his golf swing was a thing of beauty. Congratulations Chad on a great round of golf, my friend. 

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