Background
Scheid, Francis was born on September 24, 1920 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John and Rose (Bergdoll) Scheid.
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mathematician Fulbright professor
Scheid, Francis was born on September 24, 1920 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John and Rose (Bergdoll) Scheid.
Bachelor of Science, Boston University, 1942. Master of Arts, Boston University, 1943. Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1948.
Scheid wrote several pioneering articles on golf handicapping. He challenged the United States Golf Association handicapping system in a 1971 article "You’re Not Getting Enough Strokes!" in Golf Digest magazine, arguing that the system unfairly favored stronger golfers over weaker golfers. He helped lead a United States Golf Association study of handicapping multi-ball team events, and introduced the Scheid System for estimating a handicap based on only one round of play, which is useful in events where most players do not have handicaps.
In 2005, Golf Digest consulted him on the odds of making a hole-in-one, which he estimated to be 12,000 to 1 for an average player.
He wrote four popular books on the mathematics of golf, including "Golfers Come in Many Shapes and Sizes," an account of the theory and history of golf handicapping, and also "You Can"t Get Lost on a Golf Course," "Student of the Game," and "Tiger-Numbers and Annika-Numbers."
"Doctor Scheid was a golf innovator and likely one you’ve never heard of. But if you’re a high-handicapper, you owe him a debt of gratitude, because his research helped boost your handicap strokes to the level that gives you a fighting chance against the big boys," wrote Cliff Schrock of Golf Digest’s Resource Center.
Scheid was a professor of mathematics at Boston University from 1951–1985, including 12 years as department chairman. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Boston University in 1942, and his doctorate in mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1948.
In the 1960s and 70s, he created more than one-hundred televised mathematics lectures for the Harvard Commission on Extension Courses, which were used by the United States. Navy and shown on WGBH-television He traveled widely teaching mathematics for the Navy, including two trips to McMurdo Station in Antarctica.
He served as a Fulbright professor for a year in Rangoon, Burma, and a year in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Member Operations Research Society of America, Society South Pole, New York Academy of Sciences, United States Golf Association (handicap committee). Clubs: Plymouth Yachts (commodore).
Married Barbara Paty, June 2, 1944. Children– Betsy, Lisa, Sarah.