Open Golf – Tee time effect
As expected the Scottish Summer has set in at The Open this morning and badly affected play. The suspension this morning will obviously have an impact as the organiser try and shovel 156 players through the tee and finish before it gets dark.
Keeping an eye on the local weather will give you a clue as to how this will impact players. Obviously if conditions are horrific versus benign much later that’s not going to favour early starters. At golf tournaments I often become an amateur meteorologist! From a watching perspective I’d prefer conditions to be perfect, from a trading perspective I want them to be chaotic!
Outside of the obvious impact of weather there is a generic bias in the market against later tee times, have a read of the following: –
https://harvardsportsanalysis.org/2014/09/uspga-golf-the-impact-of-tee-times/
Category: Golf
