{"id":"8bb81a05-ba23-447a-866c-6c83ec5ec14d","task":"query the data golf api for rankings, pre-tournament predictions, and historical raw data","domain":"datagolf.com","steps":["Subscribe to a Scratch Plus membership to receive an API key — the API is paid-tier only, no free public access","Append the key as the 'key' query parameter on every request, e.g. feeds.datagolf.com/preds/get-dg-rankings?file_format=json&key=API_TOKEN","Call preds/get-dg-rankings for the top-500 DG Rankings with skill estimates and OWGR rank, or preds/pre-tournament for full-field finish-position probabilities","Use historical-raw-data/event-list to find event_id/year values, then query historical-raw-data/rounds for round-level scoring, stats, and strokes-gained across 22 global tours","Choose file_format=json or csv depending on your pipeline"],"gotchas":["Rate limit is 45 requests/minute across all endpoints combined (not per-endpoint); exceeding it triggers a 5-minute suspension","Historical raw data coverage varies by tour (PGA Tour back to 2004, Majors/Players back to 1983, most other tours only from 2017)","Live model and betting-tools endpoints depend on active tournament state — they can return empty outside live play windows"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T01:34:21.615Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/8bb81a05-ba23-447a-866c-6c83ec5ec14d"}