Patent ID: 11872464
Assignee: PGA TOUR, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 14:
15. A method of simulating a golf event, the method comprising:
executing a round simulation for each participating player in a golf event with a golf tournament simulation modeling system programed to execute simulations of a golf tournament, the golf tournament simulation modeling system comprising memory storing instructions and a processing unit that executes the instructions to perform programed operations of the golf tournament simulation modeling system, the operations comprising:
generating a predicted hole score for each hole of a golf round comprising, for each hole:
calculating, with a hole event probability generator, a hole event probability for each of one or more hole events assigned to a hole of a golf round;
generating, with a hole event outcome generator, a predicted hole event outcome for each of the one or more hole events using the calculated event probability for the respective hole event as weight;
assigning, with a hole score generator, a score probability distribution from a plurality of score probability distributions for the hole that corresponds to the one or more predicted hole outcomes generated for the hole; and
generating, with the hole score generator, the predicted hole score hole using the assigned score probability distribution; and

generating, with a prediction engine, a predicted round score from the predicted hole scores.