Correlation of single-round strokes & performance indicators: Paris Olympic elite female golfers

Heng Liu, Zhenjun Li, Hongyu Zhou, Yingzhong Xie, Baohua Liu and Huang Lin

PLOS ONE, 2026, vol. 21, issue 6, 1-15

Abstract: Despite golf’s Olympic reinstatement, quantitative research on elite female Olympic golfers remains scarce, with most studies focusing on tour or amateur players. This study aimed to quantify relationships between single-round strokes and 13 performance indicators among top 10 2024 Paris Olympic female golfers (including ties), identify key predictors, and build a predictive model using correlation analysis, principal component analysis (PCA) and LASSO regression with leave-one-out cross-validation (LOOCV) and bootstrap validation to address overfitting concerns inherent to small-sample analyses. Results showed single-round strokes correlated negatively with GIR (r = −0.484), SG: Putting (r = −0.567) (both p

Date: 2026
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