Most/Least Consistent Golfers on the 2009 European/US PGA Tours

Using the standard deviation (SD) information in Golf Predictor, it is possible to see who were the most/least consistent performers in the 2009 season on the European/US PGA Tours. Of those who played a full season of events*, Tiger Woods leads the way, albeit not being as consistent as he was in the 2008 season. However, he played many more events in 2009 (19) than he did in injury hit 2008 (7) and couldn't be expected to be as extraordinarily consistent as he was then. The top five consistent golfers in 2009 were:

#	Name	St Dev	Ave. Pos.	Played
1	Tiger Woods	16.54	8.11	19
2	Kenny Perry	20.88	27.54	24
3	Soren Hansen	21.11	28.19	27
4	Luke Donald	21.80	28.00	26
5	Brian Bateman	22.77	95.35	25

Note that Brian Bateman's season was consistently bad! At the other end of the scale, the top five most inconsistent golfers in 2009 were:

#	Name	St Dev	Ave. Pos.	Played
1	Ake Nilsson	54.30	82.10	20
2	Marc Cayeux	52.90	76.57	21
3	J.P. Hayes	48.05	83.00	15
4	Michael Hoey	47.82	74.17	25
5	Marcus Higley	47.78	76.71	17

I hadn't heard of most of them either! Interestingly, all five have roughly the same performance data, with similar average finishing positions and similarly wildly fluctuating results about that average.

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*Only golfers who played at least 15 events are included in this analysis.