Golf course analytics
Your course will outlive every member. Nobody has measured how it plays.
Most golf analytics measures players. FogBow measures the golf course.
Independent measurement of how a golf course actually plays, from the club's own scoring records — a baseline over time, difficulty across the range of member ability, competition fairness, maintenance, setup and capital projects. FogBow sells no equipment and has no stake in what the numbers say.
Questions your committee cannot answer today
What a club receives
A written report
Findings first, then the exhibits behind them, the method in plain language, and an honest account of what the data will and won't support. Short enough that a committee reads it, complete enough that a doubter can check it.
Nine optional modules
$1,200 each — handicap integrity, competition fairness, course setup, tee fit, pin sheets. These run from the scoring record the club already holds.
$2,500 each — maintenance impact, season monitoring, renovation effect, pace of play. These need data beyond the scorecard, or a second measurement separated in time.
A tier, held privately
Your course placed on a four-tier scale of measured difficulty, against championship venues. Yours alone — FogBow publishes no league table and never will.
Evidence, not opinion
Every method is checked first against data whose answer is known in advance, so a finding is shown to be recoverable and not merely produced.
A stroke index that holds up
Allocation derived hole by hole from your own scoring, separately for each tee set, under the WHS Appendix E rules — with an annotated card showing where it differs from the one printed today, and why.
A baseline you keep
The measured starting point, in a form that can be re-run. Next season, after a change to the maintenance programme, or either side of a renovation — the comparison exists only because the first measurement was made properly.
What it costs
Published, and final. There is one price, it is the same for every club, and there is nothing to negotiate. A club should be able to work out what this costs before picking up the phone.
| One club, one course | $4,500 |
| One club, two or more courses | $6,500 |
| Individual modules | $1,200 or $2,500 |
| Full engagement — every module, all courses at one club | $10,750 |
| Three or more clubs under common ownership | $3,750 per course |
2026 fee schedule. Multi-year agreements lock current-year pricing. Nothing costs more than everything.
Who does the work
Junaid Mohiuddin originated the analysis FogBow is built on, and developed the framework it applies.
Golf has always judged how hard a course plays by winning score or raw scoring average. Both confuse the architecture with the weather, the setup, and who happened to be in the field that week. Across three published papers he replaced them with Adjusted Field Scoring Average — a measure anchored to the quality of the field that produced it — and then tested a four-tier classification of venues by formal inference rather than by expert opinion. The third isolates what setup alone contributes: at a course staging both an ordinary tour event and a major championship on unchanged architecture, the major setup added more than a stroke to the field's scoring.
Those papers compare venues to each other. Run instead on one course across successive seasons, the same method compares a course to itself — and the architecture does not move between seasons. Once weather is accounted for, what remains is what the club controls.
He has served on golf committees for more than a decade and volunteered scoring at professional and college tournaments, which is where the question of what a scoring record can and cannot support first came up. He has played more than two hundred courses.
Three decades building and auditing measurement systems: an operator in the technology industry, and an advisor at PwC and McKinsey & Company. A Six Sigma Black Belt — a formal qualification in exactly one thing, establishing whether a number means what it appears to mean. Undergraduate work at Northwestern in statistics, under Shelby Haberman, a Fellow of the IMS, ASA and AAAS, alongside computer science and the philosophy of science. Graduate work at Stanford's School of Engineering in decision analysis, under Sam Savage, who wrote The Flaw of Averages, and in operations research.
The statistical methods are long established. Applying them to golf courses this way is not, and every step is built to be checked rather than believed. The framework has since been tested against championships played after the models were fixed: at the 2026 Open, the field's scoring average came within 0.07 strokes of a forecast made in advance.
Writing
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