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2023 Most Improved Pros & Biggest Decline
The 2023 Most Improved Pros & Biggest Decline highlights the top 58 golfers who made significant changes in their game last season. By analyzing key statistics from 15 events, Edwin breaks down the players' progress and provides insight into those who excelled and struggled. The video reveals the biggest improvements, including a 22.2% increase in birdie rate for James Proctor, and the most notable declines, such as Thomas Gilbert's 5.3% drop in driving accuracy. Aaron Gosage leads the pack with an impressive 10% boost in driving accuracy, while Calvin Heinberg, Eric Oakley, and James Proctor also see significant gains. Meanwhile, Nika Castro and Tristan Tanner face substantial drops in birdie rate, highlighting the challenges golfers faced in 2023. The video provides a detailed look at these players' performances and offers a deeper understanding of what it takes to improve or decline on the course.
Watch the most improved pros & biggest declines from [tournament]. See which players thrived & who struggled on the course.
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y we've got a monster our hands Edwin is an absolute Monster look what he created for us okay this thing is a masterpiece and for our listeners at home I'm gonna try to break this down as best as I possibly can this is the 2023 most improved players and also the most declined the players that decline the most so what Edwin did is he compared the key statistics from 2023 to 2022 now for it to be a good set of data he made sure that you had to have played 15 events so that way someone that played two events or something isn't throwing off all the data so everyone in this list had played 15 events last season there's a total of 58 people so these are like the top 58 guys that played in 15 events so looking on birdie rate James Proctor was the one that had the biggest increase from 2022 to 2023 he increased 22.2% birdie rate to finish at a 44% rate in 2023 some of the other top names Eric Oakley Matt Bell Alden Harris Aaron gosage Cole rollan Simon lazat now the three guys that had the worst decline niik lashio saw a negative 2.6% decline Thomas Gilbert saw a negative 2.9% Decline and Greg barsby saw a negative 5.3% decline driving accuracy the biggest ones that Drew in driving accuracy you had Aaron gosage at number one with 77.1% he went up almost 10% in driving accuracy this past season then you have Calvin heinberg Eric Oakley James Proctor Cory Ellis Bradley Williams and Gavin B Babcock all increasing their driving accuracy by more than 4% impressive stuff okay who struggled you had Nika Castro going down negative 3.6% you had Tristan Tanner going down 5.1% and you had Thomas Gilbert going down almost 10% in driving accuracy last season let's move over to Greens in regulation this is C2 Circle 2 Greens in regulation biggest movers Aaron gosage increased his green in regulation by 13.2% then you had James Proctor Eric Oakley boo MAA Calvin heimberg Gavin Babcock and Chandler Kramer biggest uh biggest droppers in greens and regulation interesting here you had Kevin Jones Kevin Jones dropped uh 6.1 % Thomas Gilbert dropped 10.4% and niika Castro dropped the most by 11.6% c1x putting this is the last category here c1x P putting you had...
