golfastr: Efficiently Access Pro Golf Data

Fetch Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) Tour tournament data from ESPN <https://www.espn.com/golf/> including leaderboards and hole-by-hole scoring. Data is returned in tidy tibble format ready for analysis. Supports local storage via RDS or 'Apache Arrow' Parquet files for fast repeated access. Designed for golf analytics, data journalism, and fantasy sports research.

Version: 0.1.5
Depends: R (≥ 4.0)
Imports: httr2, dplyr, tibble
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), arrow, ggplot2
Published: 2026-02-12
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.golfastr (may not be active yet)
Author: Ray Carpenter [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Ray Carpenter <raymondcarpenter1 at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/array-carpenter/golfastr/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/array-carpenter/golfastr
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
In views: SportsAnalytics
CRAN checks: golfastr results

Documentation:

Reference manual: golfastr.html , golfastr.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: golfastr_0.1.5.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: golfastr_0.1.5.zip, r-oldrel: golfastr_0.1.5.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): golfastr_0.1.5.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): golfastr_0.1.5.tgz, r-release (x86_64): golfastr_0.1.5.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): golfastr_0.1.5.tgz

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