Evaluating the emergence of elite professional golfers in europe with data envelopment analysis

• Javier Alcaraz ^[1] ; Jesús Tadeo Pastor ^[1] ; Diego Pastor ^[1] ; Francisco del Campo ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche

     Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche

     Elche, España

     
• Localización: European Journal of Human Movement, ISSN-e 2386-4095, ISSN 0214-0071, Nº. 43, 2019, págs. 145-166
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Evaluando la aparición de golfistas profesionales de élite en europa con el análisis envolvente de datos
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  • español

    Las organizaciones nacionales de golf apoyan el desarrollo del golf en cada país, un signo de su éxito es la proliferación de jugadores de golf profesionales. En este artículo analizamos la aparición de jugadores de élite profesionales del golf en dieciocho países europeos. La eficiencia de esas naciones es medida mediante un modelo de análisis envolvente de datos orientado al “output”. La principal contribución del trabajo es la clasificación de cada nación como eficiente o ineficiente de acuerdo a su habilidad para producir jugadores de élite profesionales. Respecto a las naciones ineficientes, se determina cómo de lejos están de la eficiencia y se propone el camino de cada nación a la frontera de la eficiencia. El análisis de los resultados puede ser usado por las organizaciones nacionales para determinar nuevas estrategias con el objetivo de mejorar su rendimiento respecto a la generación de golfistas profesionales

  • English

    The national golf organizations support the development of golf in their country and one of the signs of their success is the generation of elite professional golfers. In this paper, we analyze the emergence of elite professional golfers in eighteen European nations. The efficiency of these nations is measured through output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis models. In particular, we propose variable and constant returns to scale radial models. The main purpose is to classify each of the nations as efficient or inefficient according to its ability to produce elite professional players and with regard to the inefficient ones, determine how far they have to go to achieve efficiency. We further propose a stepwise procedure for each inefficient nation that identifies a path towards the frontier with several intermediate points. The analysis of the results can be used by the nations for designing new strategies in order to improve their performance.

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