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

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  • Heng Liu
  • Zhenjun Li
  • Hongyu Zhou
  • Yingzhong Xie
  • Baohua Liu
  • Huang Lin

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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

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  • Heng Liu & Zhenjun Li & Hongyu Zhou & Yingzhong Xie & Baohua Liu & Huang Lin, 2026. "Correlation of single-round strokes & performance indicators: Paris Olympic elite female golfers," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 21(6), pages 1-15, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0338350
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0338350
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