Scoring Average

The most simple method to look into wave-based disparity in a golf tournament would be to look at the scoring averages for each wave. Here, I am comparing the scoring average for morning and afternoon waves at the Bubba Conlee Junior. I know these scores are high, but trust me when I say it was playing difficult. Don't worry, these are still some of the best junior golfers out there. 

There is a noticeable difference here, but it does not seem like much. How would we know if this difference in average scores constituted an unfair form of competition? 

We would have to take into consideration different statistics from both the morning and afternoon populations, such as:

• Average Score(x̄)

• Sample Size(n)

• Sample Standard Deviation(s)

With this information, we could perform a significance test to determine whether the difference in scores is statistically significant or just from random variance. We can treat these tournament players as two samples from two different populations and draw a conclusion on how the overall junior golfer population would have performed in each weather condition

So, looking at only scoring averages did not lead us to a believe that there was an unfair nature between the morning and afternoon tee times. What else can we look at?