PGA Tour Stats: What it Takes to Win

Even only after 12 weeks of play, a relatively small sample period, statistics are starting to provide useful data.

For help in selecting players for your roster, we have listed the most important performance features in the order of importance.

The data supporting the features and their positions was complied from two years worth of PGA TOUR data, all rounds.

EVENT

PLAYER

DRIVING

GIR

PUTTS

EAGLE/BIRDIE

BOGEY/DBL

		%of56	RNK	DIS	RNK		%of72	RNK		Per GIR	RNK
Tourney of Champ.	Byrd	80	11	273.4	21		86.1	10		1.69	8	29	3	1/25	3/0
Sony Open	M.Wilson	73	2	289.3	24		75.1	10		1.67	5	27.5	6	3	0/21	5/0
Bob Hope Classic	Vegas	75	13	308.7	3		76.7	19		1.65	22	27.4	16	3	1/34	9/0
Farmers Insur.Open	B.Watson	50	28	316.6	1		81.9	1		1.73	26	29	32	3	2/20	8/0
Phoenix Open	M.Wilson	66	16	290.3	68		84.7	1		1.66	11	28.8	39	3	0/22	4/0
Pebble Bch,Pro-Am	Points	80	7	285.6	40		69.4	17		1.6	1	27	2	3	2/23	10/1
Northern Trust	Baddeley	50	57	276.5	42		72.2	3		1.83	54	28.5	35	3	1/15	3/1
MayakobaGolfClass.	Wagner	67.9	36	277.9	54		79.2	4		1.68	7	28	8	3	1/17	2/0
Honda Classic	Sabbatini	53.6	56	286.3	26	65.3	21	1.77	19	27	2	0/15	6/0
WGC-Cadillac(Doral)	Watney	58.9	12	297.6	14	68.1	12	1.57	2	26.3	9	1/22	6/1
Puerto Rico Open	M.Bradley	64.3	24	293.1	42	81.9	2	1.75	20	30	49	2/18	6/0
Transitions Champ.	Woodland	57.7	54	296.5	7	70.8	29	1.65	5	27	2	0/22	7/0
Arnold Palmer Inv.	Laird	71.4	23	296.6	5	68.1	20	1.78	22	28.8	18	1/18	10/1

In our data results of the above 12 winners you can see some correlations with the list.


1. Greens In Regulation (GIR)
2. Putts per GIR
3. 3-putt avoidance*
4. Scrambling
5. Goes for it
6. Putts per round
7. Driving Distance
8. Driving Accuracy

* 3-putt avoidance: The percent of time three or more putts were taken for a hole divided by total holes played (lower is better)

Goes for It: This means going for the green on the second shot on a par-5. Just getting close at a par-5 in two can lower a score, laying up raises the score.