Here’s a curious observation on golfer performance. As you may know, GuruGolfer price changes are based on a formula which includes an evaluation of how each player did, hole-by-hole, relative to the rest of the field. Getting a birdie on an easy hole is not valued nearly as highly as getting a birdie on a difficult hole. This is done for each hole and round independently, so there are 72 different scoring holes to evaluate. Without going into more detail on the scoring method, I was surprised to discover which two golfers were ranked the highest this weekend: Rickie Fowler and Miguel Angel Jimenez. (Els and Scott ranked #3 and #4.) Fowler’s ranking was particularly helped by 4th round birdies on hole #1 (one of only 3 total birdies on that hole) and #17 (1/4). Jimenez had several similarly scarce birdies. Neither player got much TV exposure, as they were never in contention. And neither was widely owned (Fowler was on only 6 GuruGolf foursomes, and Jimenez on 5). You can see the full details of each player’s British Open scorecard here: http://rotoguru1.com/cgi-bin/gallcards.pl?tourney=37). If you were surprised to see a high priced golfer like Fowler finish at +3 (tied for 31st) and still earn a +$80 price gain, that’s why.