Western University Scholarship@Western Digitized Theses Digitized Special Collections 2011 COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF PGA TOUR AND ONTARIO UNIVERSITY GOLFERS Charles Richard Spear Fitzsimmons Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/digitizedtheses Recommended Citation Fitzsimmons, Charles Richard Spear, "COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF PGA TOUR AND ONTARIO UNIVERSITY GOLFERS" (2011). Digitized Theses. 3290. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/digitizedtheses/3290 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Digitized Special Collections at Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digitized Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF PGA TOUR AND ONTARIO UNIVERSITY GOLFERS (Thesis format: Monograph) by Charles R. S. Fitzsimmons Graduate Program in Kinesiology A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario, Canada © Charles R. S. Fitzsimmons 2011 1 THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES CERTIFICATE OF EXAMINATION Supervisor Examiners Dr. Albert V. Carrón Dr. Jim Weese Dr. Darwin M. Semotiuk Dr. Riley E. Hinson The thesis by Charles Richard Spear Fitzsimmons entitled: v Comparative Performance Analysis of PGA Tour and Ontario University Golfers is accepted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Date___________________________ ________________________________ Chair of the Thesis Examination Board a ABSTRACT The purposes of the study were to 1) build a model to predict scoring average for a total sample of professional (n = 82) and collegiate (n = 41) golfers using stepwise regression, 2) test the model on the samples independently using hierarchical regression, and 3); examine the significance in performance differences in the two subsamples.