Thinking about the total pars made at the 2023 Masters. Seems like a basic stat someone would track, yeah? Just add up all the times players made par on each hole across the four days. You’d think that number would be easy to find or figure out.
Well, it’s trickier than it looks. I actually got obsessed with this kind of stuff for a bit last year, right around Masters time. Got this idea in my head, maybe build a small website or something, just for myself, to track detailed golf stats. Not just scores, but like fairways hit, greens in regulation, putts per round, and yeah, total pars per tournament. Thought it’d be cool to see the patterns.
My Little Project Attempt
So, Masters week 2023 kicks off, and I’m trying to pull data. Where do you even get a reliable feed of every single shot or hole outcome in real-time, or even slightly delayed? Turns out, that’s not really public info unless you pay big bucks or find some unofficial source that might vanish tomorrow. I spent hours trying to scrape data from different sports sites. What a headache.
- One site had scores but not hole-by-hole pars.
- Another had hole details but in a format that was impossible to automate easily.
- Everything seemed inconsistent.
I was getting frustrated. Here I am, trying to do this supposedly simple thing – count the pars – and I’m hitting roadblocks everywhere. It felt like the data was deliberately hard to get unless you were ‘official’.
Then Real Life Hit
Just as I was starting to maybe make some progress, figuring out a messy script to pull some numbers, life threw a wrench in things. Big time. My kid got sick. Not just a little cold, but that nasty stomach bug that was going around. Suddenly, tracking Jon Rahm’s pars didn’t seem quite so important anymore.
The next few days were a blur. Dealing with doctors, cleaning up messes, barely sleeping. Forget coding or watching golf, I was just trying to keep things together at home. The Masters finished, Rahm won, and I honestly barely noticed. My little stat project? Completely abandoned. Didn’t write another line of code for it.
What I Learned (Not the Par Count)
When things finally settled down, I looked back at my notes. All this effort to find one specific number, the total pars for the 2023 Masters. I never did calculate it myself from raw data. I probably could have just Googled it easily after the fact, but that wasn’t the point of my project.
It just showed me how complex things can get behind the scenes. We see the polished broadcast, the final leaderboard. But tracking every single detail, like every par? It takes serious infrastructure or serious dedication, maybe more than I had for a hobby project. And sometimes, life just has other plans for your time and energy.
So yeah, I don’t have the exact self-compiled number for total pars at the 2023 Masters from my own tracking. My experiment got cut short by a sick kid. Made me appreciate both the challenge of gathering detailed sports data and the simple fact that sometimes, you just gotta drop everything for family. That became my ‘Masters story’ for 2023, more than any golf statistic.
