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If you know the scores of two different golfers on day 1, then you know more than if you know the score of only one golfer on day 1. You can't predict the direction in which regression to the mean will occur if your data set is a single point.
The following all have different answers:
(The answer is 39700; I'm probably not going to improve with practice, and you have no way to know if 39700 is unusually good or unu... (read more)