Moneyball for Golf: How a Lean Team Can Punch Above Its Weight

Lead with Data, with Jarred, Head of Data and Intelligence at Golf Australia

Most data leaders inherit a mandate from the board, a budget and teams they control. Jarred has none of that in the traditional sense. He runs the data function for a national sporting body, which means the data he works with is created by clubs and third parties he doesn't control, the team is lean and the budget is nowhere near enterprise scale. He still built one of the most strategically mature data capabilities in Australian sport.

This one is for you whether you lead a data function on tight constraints, or you just want to know how data is quietly reshaping the game.

What we get into:

• Why owning your data end to end matters more than the shiny front end, and why the most important work happened under the hood
• Migrating 25 years of legacy data with almost no documentation and what that actually takes
• How Golf Australia moved from subjective, intuition led athlete decisions to models built on a decade of historical outcomes
• Running a serious data capability with a lean team
• The half a million handicaps behind one of the most personal datasets in the country

If you have ever argued about your handicap, that is Jarred's data.

Find Jarred on LinkedIn, where he is happy to chat about any of this.