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Golf tournaments involve travel to a wide variety of destinations, and that means that golfers face drastically different course and weather conditions everywhere they go.  Each of these courses requires adjustments, and each is suited to different play styles.  To assess the impact that each will have, there are a number of factors to look at.

When you are handicapping a football tournament, there are going to be a lot of major changes from start to finish for all of the teams and players.  At the start of the tournament, you are not going to have a lot of information to handicap with, but as a tournament unfolds, you will learn a lot from watching the teams compete.  That means you will want to make smart adjustments as you go along. 

Here are some factors to look out for:

If you are serious about betting on sports, and are thinking about turning it into a full-time job, you may think that you're getting away from the stress associated with a 9-to-5 job. While this may ultimately be true, it is not an easy or fast transition to make. In fact, in some ways it can be even more stressful, especially while you are still balancing betting with a day job. See Sources of Stress in Betting Part 1 for a brief introduction to this topic.

If you are handicapping american football, one of the statistics you might look at is the quarterback rating. There are actually two quarterback ratings which are widely used, the NFL quarterback rating and the ESPN’s Total Quarterback Rating, or QBR.  The NFL quarterback rating has been around much longer.  While it is less comprehensive than the QBR, it does still offer value to bettors.  The correlation between the NFL quarterback rating differential and the success of the quarterback is quite strong.