Jordan Spieth and the Grand Slam: Virtually no chance, popular data analysis site concludes | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

Jordan Spieth in all likelihood will not win the Grand Slam. This is not a bold prediction, of course; no one has ever won the Grand Slam.

But FiveThirtyEight, the blog founded by Nate Silver, has run its information through its DataLab and came up with this:

“No matter how you cut it, the odds of Spieth finishing off the Grand Slam are still fairly low — about 1 percent, if the probabilities above are any kind of guide.”

Silver, a statistics and analytics expert, is the man who came to fame largely on the basis of his accuracy in predicting outcomes in the 2008 elections. He correctly predicted the winner of 49 of 50 states in the presidential election and all 35 U.S. Senate races.

FiveThirtyEight might be stating the obvious in the case of Spieth and the Grand Slam, but it did consider substantially more information than the fact …