Dubai UAE,

I was not supposed to be at the DPWorld Tour Championship's Players Lounge as since covid I have been more active on the LegendsTour. However, last month, I was in Tuscany, Italy doing a project in beautiful CastelFalfi Resort  when I met G4D (Golf for the Disabled) Tour player Tommaso Perrino (Disabled World N.5) whom had just won the G4D Tour leg ISPS Handa World Invitational in Irlande. As a result Tommaso qualify for the G4D final series and here I was with Tommaso at the players lounge having the same menu as Rory Mcilroy (World N.1)...

I personaly think that giving disabled top golfers the opportunity to play the same week, the same course as the best golfers in the world is a great opportunity, on top of that they can meet each other in the players lounge, on the putting green and the practice range where they can interact. 

Quote from Jon Rahm winner of the 2022 DPWorld Tour Championship 

"I truly think it is a wonderful thing to have something like that " I'm decently close with Disabled Juan Postigo, and to see him hit the golf ball is one of the most amazing things you'll ever see on a golf course. How good he can hit it, how far he can hit it one-legged is truly incredible. 

The new look G4D (Golf for the Disabled) Tour featured a minimum of seven events, culminating in the G4D Grand Finale in Dubai. G4D tournaments is closely linked to DP World Tour tournaments – playing on the same course during the same tournament week. CaddiePlayer is welcoming Disabled to use its data statistics solutions.  

"I am looking forward to the next G4D Tour Abu Dhabi Championship 2023 where I shall CaddiePlayer Tommaso Perrino. I know the course very well from my last venue back in 2019 when CaddiePlayer Richard Sterne finished second ".

Stéphane Barras CaddiePlayer Founder

https://www.wagr.com/wr4gd-ranking

DPWorld Tour Championship Rory's Press Conference Release:

Q. You achieved something you had not before by winning the FedExCup and the DP World Tour ranking in the same year, and returned to world No. 1. How proud are you of the body of work you've put together this year?

RORY McILROY: Yeah, very proud of myself. Harry (Rory's Caddie) and I were talking going up the last fairway. It seems like it's a long time since San Antonio, the Texas Open the week before Augusta this year when I was sort of struggling a little bit and made a couple of tweaks with my game and with my equipment. Went to a different golf ball. It seemed like just after that, my whole year turned around and got a ton the momentum at the Masters and just went from there.

Since the 2012 World Scientific Congress of Golf Paper: “Better Understanding Putting Distance, Perception and Goals” followed by the launch of CaddiePlayer solution, founder’s Stephane Barras has been in close relationship with the European Tour and its partners exploring way to collaborate. First in 2014 through their ETPI partnership, then in 2017 with the launch of Waggle by 15^th club.

When Covid spread and the European Tour events (DPWorldTour) became restricted to one "essential staff", Stephane found new stream to assist remotely tour players and, in the meantime, finalized a strategic partnership with Hello Birdie app.

Then in 2021, Stephane saw an opportunity to be involve with the *Legends Tour. This let him start a journey with Swiss Golf Legend Andre Bossert known as “Bossy”. Bossy an active user of statistics started to get more familiar with CaddiePlayer solution and more data could be studied. As a result, a way to implement them into the Legends Tour “alliance” mix Amateurs and Professionals’ playing separate format was found.  

After several testing events throughout 2022: Austria Riegler & Partner Legends, Jersey Legends, Farmfoods European Legends Links Championship hosted by Ian Woosnam and the WCM Legends Open de France hosted by Jean Van de Velde, the final statistic grid sheet was in place and ready for an official trial.

Thanks to a cooperation with Vt-Golf and its Founder Eric Binetruy an easy friendly data tool app was then build and tested during the 2022 Italian Senior Open. 

Stephane's quote:

“I am grateful to the Legends Tour who has giving me the opportunity to spend three days inside the official recording area where I could interact with everyone involved. A special thanks to all the players and caddies who took their time to fill the statistic grid to collect the necessary data.  I am pleased with the outcome and I am looking forward to get the results”

Stephane Barras at the Recording Area during the Italian Senior Open at Argentario Golf Club

*The Legends Tour is the current name of the European Senior Tour and is the official tour for players over 50. It is part of the PGA European Tour alongside the DP World Tour and European Challenge Tour > https://www.legendstour.com/about

Best putter from Thursday to Sunday

by Stéphane Barras CaddiePlayer Founder & Hello Birdie head of Academy

On the last round, despite a better Long Game Index, Rory was probably not having the best sensations on the greens as he needed 36 putts, where 29 were enough for Cameron.

“I felt like I didn’t do much wrong today, but I didn’t do much right either[…] It’s just one of those days where I played a really controlled round of golf.”

Rory McIlroy

Back nine Sunday was mainly an amazing birdie strike from Cameron with an up and down on 17th that left Rory 2 shots back from European hopes.

Full story > https://www.hello-birdie.com/en/blog/the-150th-open-championship/

From Scotland the 150th Open week anniversary by Stephane Barras.

I just arrived in Edinburgh. The sky is blue, the air is hot (27 degres), the Musselbourgh beaches are full of bikinis and sun cream.

As everyone is focusing on Tiger Woods crossing the Swilcan Bridge with Jack Nicklaus, I focus on the LegendsTour data trial leading to a win from South Africa Legends James Kingston.

Thanks to James's Caddie Sam, I got this morning by Whatsapp Kingston's Bad Ragaz Swiss Seniors Open 3 rounds stats card. It took me 15 minutes only to compile the rounds stats into CaddiePlayer data center.

All toghether Sam has collected James's 12 LegendsTour rounds. 12 rounds that has proven once again how efficient relevent the CaddiePlayer data are. James's SwingScore under 70 (67,7) and PuttScore under 30 (28,3) simply show the recipe to win.

Glad it happen to my home country Switzerland, could not be a better place and time to mark 10 years (2012-2022) of the PuttZones findings.  

Lets now enjoy the 150th Open week.   

• #Caddie Same Morley with #Player James Kingstone winner of the 2022 Bad Ragaz Swiss Seniors Open
• Full story: https://www.legendstour.com/article/kingston-triumphs-in-bad-ragaz-to-secure-swiss-seniors-open-title