PGA Tour Stats Review: 2011 Final Stats

2011 PGA Tour Stats by Tournament

Hopefully, the recap of the winner's statistics that ran each week throughout the season offered some perspective in providing comparisons of performances by the winners. The holy grail of hitting greens and putting well is again supported by the numbers - it'll be the same next year.

EVENT	WINNER	DRIVE	DRIVE	DRIVE	DRIVE	GIR	GIR		PUTTS	PUTTS		EAGLE/	BOGEY/
		%of56	RNK	DIS	DIS RNK	%of72	RNK	Per GIR	RNK	RND	RNK	BIRDIE	DBL
Tourney of Champ.	Byrd, -24	80.0	11	273.4	21	86.1	10	1.69	8	29	3	1/25	3/0
Sony Open	M. Wilson, -16	73.0	2	289.3	24	75.1	10	1.67	5	27.5	6	0/21	5/0
Bob Hope - Five Rds	Vegas, -27	75.0	13	308.7	3	76.7	19	1.65	22	27.4	16	1/34	9/0
Farmers Insur.Open	B. Watson, -16	50.0	28	316.6	1	81.9	1	1.73	26	29	32	2/20	8/0
Phoenix Open	M. Wilson, -18	66.0	16	290.3	68	84.7	1	1.66	11	28.8	39	0/22	4/0
Pebble Bch Pro-Am	Points, -15	80.0	7	285.6	40	69.4	17	1.6	1	27	2	2/23	10/1
Northern Trust	Baddeley, -12	50.0	57	276.5	42	72.2	3	1.83	54	28.5	35	1/15	3/1
Mayakoba	Wagner, -17	67.9	36	277.9	54	79.2	4	1.68	7	28	8	1/17	2/0
Honda Classic	Sabbatini, -9	53.6	56	286.3	26	65.3	21	1.77	19	27	2	0/15	6/0
WGC-Cadillac(Doral)	Watney ,-16	58.9	12	297.6	14	68.1	12	1.57	2	26.3	9	1/22	6/1
Puerto Rico Open	M. Bradley, -16	64.3	24	293.1	42	81.9	2	1.75	20	30	49	2/18	6/0
Transitions Champ.	Woodland, -15	57.7	54	296.5	7	70.8	29	1.65	5	27	2	0/22	7/0
Arnold Palmer Inv.	Laird, -8	71.4	23	296.6	5	68.1	20	1.78	22	28.8	18	1/18	10/1
Houston Open	Mickelson, -20	53.6	67	314.6	6	77.8	11	1.64	3	28	11	1/27	7/1
Masters	C. Schwartzel, -14	66.1	31	278.4	44	68.0	18			26.7	2	2/17	7/0
Texas Open	B. Steele, -8	64.3	7	303.0	10	58.3	40	1.69	13	26.0	2	0/17	7/1
The Heritage	B. Snedeker, -12	80.4	3	271.0	59	61.1	30	1.59	2	25.8	4	0/21	9/0
Zurich Classic	B. Watson, -15	71.4	13	331.4	1	80.6	1	1.74	41	29.3	57	3/16	5/0
Wells Fargo Champ.	L. Glover, -15	46.4	49	303.0	25	70.8	26	1.59	1	29.5	3	1/22	9/0
THE PLAYERS	K. Choi, -13	71.4	10	280.8	43	69.4	21	1.64	8	27.0	6	1/19	6/1
Crowne Plaza	D. Toms, -15	67.9	4	299.1	28	72.2	4	1.58	1	27.3	9	1/20	5/1
ByronNelson Champ.	K. Bradley P1, -3	58.9	10	316.8	7	65.3	6	1.85	47	29.5	45	0/13	10/0
The Memorial	S. Stricker, -16	80.4	3	295.6	35	65.3	30	1.60	5	26.5	3	3/19	9/0
St. Jude	H. Frazar, P1 -13	57.1	46	316.9	1	69.4	8	1.64	1	26.8	5	0/19	4/1
U.S. Open	R. McIlroy, -16	64.3	26	310.0	7	86.1	1	1.65		29.7	29	1/19	3/1
Travelers Champ.	F. Jacobson, -20	85.7	9	274.6	46	72.2	34	1.67	11	26.5	3	0/21	1/0
AT&T National	N. Watney, -13	69.6	10	320.8	4	70.8	27	1.67	3	27.8	2	1/20	9/0
John Deere Classic	S. Stricker, -22	64.3	58	318.0	12	73.6	33	1.55	1	25	1	1/25	3/1
Viking Classic	C. Kirk, -22	64.3	43	292.0	12	79.2	12	1.63	10	27.3	12	1/24	4/0
British Open	D. Clarke, -5	41.0		311.7		70.8				29.7		2/14	11/1
Canadian Open	S. O'Hair, P1 -4	58.9	27	299.6	3	59.7	19	1.84	61	28.8	36	0/17	13/0
Greenbrier Classic	S. Stallings P1	62.5	54	323.5	5	79.2	2	1.72	19	30.0	53	0/19	9/0
Bridgestone	A. Scott -17	64.3	15	319.6	6	70.8	9	1.63	4	26.5	4	0/21	4/0
PGA Championship	K. Bradley P1 -8	62.5		301.8		77.7		1.68		29.2		1/19	6/3
Wyndham Champ.	W. Simpson -18	69.6	15	310.5	13	79.2	13	1.68	2	28.8	9	3/17	3/1
Barclays-54 holes	D.Johnson -19	59.5	44	311.7	2	83.3	9	1.62	7	28.0	8	1/21	2/1
Deutsche Bank	W. Simpson P1 -15	62.5	44	299.4	40	65.3	35	1.6	2	26.5	3	2/17	6/0
BMW Championship	J. Rose -13	75.0	4	299.5	25	70.8	3	1.67	5	27.8	16	1/19	8/0
TOUR Champ.	B. Haas P1 -8	62.5	5	299.9	9	69.4	11	1.58	1	28.8	9	0/22	12/1
	H.Mahan P2 -8	60.7	6	294.8	15	76.4	5	1.76	10	29.8	18	1/14	8/0
AVERAGE		65.1	26.1	300.5	21.1	72.9	14.6	1.66	13.0	27.9	14.9

Note: Hunter Mahan's Tour Championship stats not included in average; Tour Championship stats reflect 30-player field.

TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

First glances of the stats comparison of Bill Haas and Hunter Mahan might give wonder as to how come Mahan only wound up with a tie. Without delving deeply into what happened, Haas out-putted Mahan when it counted.

Haas, playing ahead of Mahan, birdied the tough sixth while Mahan bogied - a two-shot swing. Mahan couldn't get a birdie to drop the rest of the front nine. At the par-5 ninth he parred, again missing a birdie.

Mahan bogied the 13th, Haas birdied. Another two-stroke swing. Mahan wound up with one birdie and two bogeys closing with a 1-over 71 while Haas shot a 2-under 68.

Haas' pressure-packed miracle shot out of the water at the 17 in the playoff had to have a negative impact on Mahan that carried over to Mahan's missed putt at the closing hole.