Mathematicians Explain Sports: Golf
Golf: just minimize the sum of (strokes − par) over 18 holes. The rest follows trivially.
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Golf: "Just minimize Σᵢ₌₁¹⁸ (xᵢ − parᵢ)." "Cool. Anything else I should know?" "Nope. The rest follows trivially."