Articles & analysis
Data-driven articles on college golf, recruiting trends, and player development. Originally published on Substack.
What They Learned From Their Teammates
Chapter 11 of The College Golf Report.
Letters to Their 17-Year-Old Selves
What 128 Former College Golfers Would Tell Their 17-Year Old Selves
College Golf Report - Academic Workload: More Manageable Than You Think, Until It Isn't
College Golf Report Chapter 9
Time Management: The 18-Hour Days of College Golf
Chapter 8 of The College Golf Report.
Qualifying: The Job Interview You Repeat Every Week
College Golf Report Chapter 7
What Hurt the Golf Games of 133 Former College Golfers
Chapter 6 of The College Golf Report
"During college, what's something specific that improved your game?" - 133 answers
College Golf report Chapter 5
7.9 Out of 10 Satisfied With Their Choice. What They Would Do Differently
College Golf Report Chapter 4
GOLF ADVICE FOR JUNIOR GOLFERS FROM 133 FORMER COLLEGE GOLFERS
College Golf Report Chapter 3
Open-Ended Recruiting Advice from 133 Former College Golfers
The College Golf Report Chapter 2
The Two Biggest First-Year Shocks in College Golf
Course Setups and Coaching Feedback
Launching Caddie - The most effective and personal way of going through college recruiting
A recruiting research tool for families who want to do it themselves
The Other 70%, Women’s Golf
International Growth Across Non-D1 Women’s College Golf
International Growth Across Non-D1 Men’s College Golf
The Other 70% - Roster Data Deep Dive
The Olympic Medal Count and What It Has to Do With Golf
Norway’s Youth Sports Model
Summarizing the D1 Golf Roster Data
A complete look at how DI golf recruiting has transformed in the last 20 years
The PGA Tour Winners Who Never Won in College
5 Years of Tour Winners, contd.
How Much Did Recent PGA Tour Winners Win in College? --> The most common path
5 Years of Tour Winners
Ex-college golfers - I need your help!
Please help junior golfers by filling out the survey
Shifts in Height | Women's DI Golf rosters over the past 20 years 📊
Data Deep Dive 🗃️
U.S.-Born DI Women's Golfers, state by state
The Big Three & 20 years of data
Women's Golf: The Declining Rate of U.S.-Born DI Golfers
A Data Deep Dive
Anthroponymy in Men's College Golf
Data Deep Dive
Shifts in Height | Division I rosters over the past 20 years 📊
Data Deep Dive 🗃️
A Deep Dive into Norway's Top Junior Golf Tour – Insights from Srixon Tour 2025
How Bogey Avoidance Drives Elite Performance on Norway's Srixon Tour
The rise of European recruits in DI men's golf
The Analyst Column
The States most Impacted by up-tick in International Recruiting (Men's DI Golf)
A data deep-dive
The Declining Rate of U.S.-Born Men's DI Golfers
A Data Deep-Dive
Recruiting Questions Vol. 2
College Golf
Golfed: Range by David Epstein
D1 Women: Transfers, Newcomers and Reshaped Rosters
The Analyst Column
Contenders, Transfers and Freshmen to Watch
The Analyst Column
Round 1, Longer holes, and Less bogeys
My thoughts on scoring data from a junior golf championship.
Repost: Summary of Recruitment Playbook
THE COLLEGE GOLF RECRUITMENT PLAYBOOK: INSIGHTS FROM OVER 50 COACHES
Recruiting Questions
College Golf
Running all the numbers - Omni La Costa
Deep-dive into the 2024 Men's NCAA DI Championship
What does the data tell us? And who will make it to The Big Show?
Men's DI Regionals Preview (Clippd Article)
Women's DI Regionals Preview
Who will punch their tickets to La Costa? (Clippd Article)
Conference Championships
This season’s toughest Conference Championships to call — and why
The College Golf Decision Tree 🎓
Using College Coaches' Advice in Choosing a School
“The Head Coaching Chair Just Feels Different”
Giovana Maymon's first year as the Head Coach at the University of Arizona
The freshman landscape looks different this season
My March Clippd-Column
Each Thriving Golfer Is Alike; Each Struggling Golfer Suffers in Their Own Way
MikkelGolf Newsletter
Future Pro Island - Revisiting the Amer Ari
Insights From Coaches and Scoring Across Three Decades
Public Data Dashboard: The Amer Ari
Explore the data behind one of college golf’s most historic events—fully interactive and at your fingertips.
From College Benchings to Adulthood Pneumonia
Things I Wish I’d Known in College
The Amer Ari
History and Insight
What Will People Think of Me? (And Other Cognitive Missteps of Professional Golfers)
How to Avoid Conditioning Yourself into an Illogical Overthinker
Can anyone stop Colorado Christian? The Spring showdown awaits.
NCAA Men's Division II Preview
Decrease in performance when closing out a tournament?
A look at data from the last three holes of tournaments across an entire season
Rounds of the Year | Srixon Tour '24
Spotlighting Outliers 🌟
Top-ranked Players vs Field by Hole Difficulty 📊
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter
75% of the strokes elite juniors gain 🧠
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter
Fall Scoring Data | Assessing the Men's DI National Contenders 🏆
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter
Srixon Tour 2024 Dashboard 📊
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter
The Carmel Cup
The Historic Men's & Women's 6-count-5 Pebble Beach Event
First Round Scoring Averages Revisited
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter
A Podcast Appearance
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter
Summary of Recruitment Playbook
THE COLLEGE GOLF RECRUITMENT PLAYBOOK: INSIGHTS FROM OVER 50 COACHES
Timing (Recruiting)
THE COLLEGE GOLF RECRUITMENT PLAYBOOK: INSIGHTS FROM OVER 50 COACHES
Open-ended Recruiting Advice from Coaches
THE COLLEGE GOLF RECRUITMENT PLAYBOOK: INSIGHTS FROM OVER 50 COACHES
#1 Mistake Recruits Make When Choosing a School
THE COLLEGE GOLF RECRUITMENT PLAYBOOK: INSIGHTS FROM OVER 50 COACHES
What's the #1 Red Flag in a Recruit?
THE COLLEGE GOLF RECRUITMENT PLAYBOOK: INSIGHTS FROM OVER 50 COACHES
Parents' involvement / Help with recruiting
THE COLLEGE GOLF RECRUITMENT PLAYBOOK: INSIGHTS FROM OVER 50 COACHES
Coaches Evaluations and Perception of Skills (Recruiting)
THE COLLEGE GOLF RECRUITMENT PLAYBOOK: INSIGHTS FROM OVER 50 COACHES
Social Media (Recruiting)
The College Golf Recruitment Playbook: Insights from Over 50 Coaches
Which Schools to Email (Recruiting)
Recruiting advice #3
How can a recruit best get a college coach's attention? (Recruiting)
The College Golf Recruitment Playbook: Insights from Over 50 Coaches - Chapter 2
What college coaches look for in an introductory email (Recruiting)
THE COLLEGE GOLF RECRUITMENT PLAYBOOK: INSIGHTS FROM OVER 50 COACHES
The Olympics and top-100 OWGR vs WAGR
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #30
The Open Championship and The Summer of a College Golf Coach (article)
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #29
Two occasions where the best players in college golf crush the field 💨
Mikkelgolf.com Newsletter #28
Elite College Golf Scores
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #27
A College Golf Career
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #26
71 Scorecards
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #25
College Coaches are Subbing More Often (and it's working)
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #24
A look at the final NCAA Men's DI Ranking
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #23
Women's College Golf Roster Management 📊
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #22
NCAA Nationals 🏌
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #21
Freshmen Defying the Odds
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #20
IS THERE MORE PARITY IN COLLEGE GOLF?
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #19
HOW ADVANTAGEOUS IS HOSTING NCAA REGIONALS?
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #18
Choices Around the Green
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #17
NCAA D1 Women's Golf Rosters
MikkelGolf.com newsletter #16
Evidence: The Importance of Patience in Golf
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #15
What separates college and tour players?
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #14
What a College Golf Coach Looks For 🕵🏻
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #13
NCAA Regionals Scoring the Past Three Years
Mikkelgolf.com Newsletter #12
Do substitutions in college golf work? 🔄
Mikkelgolf.com Newsletter #11
COLLEGE GOLF Data Unveils: Roster Strategies, Freshman Odds, and Most Common Name in College Golf🧐
Mikkelgolf.com Newsletter #11
Career transitions in golf 📈
Mikkelgolf Newsletter #9
Boiling down the Tour Player advice 🔪
Mikkelgolf.com Newsletter #8
Tour Players: "What I wish I had known in College" ✍🏻
Mikkelgolf.com Newsletter #7
Rounds of the year (girls' division) and more Srixon Tour Outliers 🏌️♀️
Mikkelgolf.com Newsletter #6
Rounds of the year (boys' division) and other outliers on the 2023 Srixon Tour 🏌
Mikkelgolf.com Newsletter #5
Where the winners in Junior Golf gain 75% of their strokes 🧠
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #4
First Round AJGA Scoring Averages 🧐
Mikkelgolf.com Newsletter #3
First round scoring average in Junior and College Golf 🔢(MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #2)
MikkelGolf.com Newsletter #1
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