A big acquisition in the world of junior golf:
College Golf Experience, the GCAA-endorsed college golf camp company, has bought TUGR, also known as The Universal Golf Ranking, which has both professional and junior golf rankings determined by a strokes-gained, head-to-head model. TUGR was created by a team with over 100 years of combined business, data analytics and golf experience.
TUGR prides its junior ranking on including 30% more tournaments and 25% more players than the other junior rankings, Junior Golf Scoreboard and AJGA. Its platform also includes more than just rankings, featuring ranking trends, heat maps of where players compete, and even how players perform in different weather conditions, among other tools.
“TUGR’s algorithm was created to solve one of golf’s biggest