Historic results – From the old era

Through the era of declaring documents, some of the original manuscripts on which the golf challenges were written have now been lost. As a result, historians are currently pouring over the old databases to see if other results can be recovered. Anyway, the old era was contested by four giants of the golf prediction game: Darren Morgan, Mark Smith, Mike Jones and Steve Drew. From the records that are still available – dating back to 2004, we have the results of twelve competitions:

Year Competition Winner Score Margin Steve Drew Darren Morgan Mike Jones Mark Smith
2004 TPC Darren Morgan -19 5 -12 -19 -14 27
2004 Masters Mike Jones -20 27 34 7 -20 28
2004 US Open Steve Drew 9 4 9 13 31 26
2004 Open Mike Jones -18 6 -12 -3 -18 35
2004 US PGA Steve Drew -16 4 -16 -10 -12 100
2005 TPC Mike Jones -11 8 4 -3 -11
2005 Masters Mike Jones -21 16 7 -5 -21 -5
2005 US Open Steve Drew 20 3 20 23 23 35
2005 Open Mark Smith -8 2 -4 -6 -6 -8
2007 TPC Mark Smith -14 1 -10 -13 -14
2007 US Open Mark Smith 31 18 100 49 31
2007 Open Steve Drew -1 NA -1 100

Over this period, the most successful pundit in terms of ranked position was Mike Jones, followed by Darren and Steve with Sparks at the back. However, in terms of winnings, Mike ended up being £30 up, Steve £10 up, Mark £5 down and Darren £35 down. If we find any more results I will add them to this analysis.

Entries Average position Ranked average position No of entries No of wins Entry fees paid Winnings Net position
Steve Drew 2.5 3 12 4 60 70 10
Darren Morgan 2.1 2 11 1 55 20 -35
Mike Jones 1.8 1 9 4 45 75 30
Mark Smith 2.6 4 11 3 55 50 -5

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