The 10 Most Eye-Popping Stats on the PGA Tour in 2015
To the average golfer, the average PGA Tour pro's stats are eye-popping relative to their own 20-handicap games.
Could you imagine averaging 290 yards off the tee, hitting 66 percent of greens in regulation and one-putting 40 percent of the time?
Some pros, however, are well above (or below) tour averages and have amassed some truly eye-popping stats this year.
Click through for 10 of the most eye-popping stats (via PGATour.com).
Jordan Spieth
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Scoring average: 68.92
Top-10 finishes: 10 in 17 starts
Why it's eye-popping
Jordan Spieth has maintained his incredible sub-69 scoring average across 63 rounds this year. The player with the second-best scoring average, Rory McIlroy, has only 33 rounds under his belt this season and is averaging 69.11 strokes per round.
A margin of .10 strokes is huge over the course of a season, and for Spieth to have played nearly twice as many rounds as McIlroy and lead by that number is impressive. A sub-70 scoring average looks pretty nice too.
Dustin Johnson: Driving Distance
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Average driving distance: 319 yards
Why it's eye-popping
Dustin Johnson averages 9.5 more yards per drive than any other golfer on measured drives.
Let that sink in for a minute.
He's nearly 11 yards longer than bomber Bubba Watson and eight yards longer than he was last year. His 319-yard average is the longest since Bubba averaged 319.6 yards off the tee in 2006.
Francesco Molinari: Driving Accuracy
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Driving accuracy: 78.52%
Why it's eye-popping
Francesco Molinari is hitting 4 percent more fairways than anyone else on the PGA Tour: impressive. David Toms, second on tour, is hitting 73.8 percent of fairways. In 2014, Toms led the tour hitting 75.4 percent of fairways.
Molinari is capitalizing on finding the short grass: He's second on tour in greens in regulation at 72.4 percent.
Jimmy Walker: Strokes Gained: Putting
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Strokes gained: putting: .844
Why it's eye-popping
If you're wondering what the secret to Jimmy Walker's success is, start with the flatstick. Walker leads the tour in strokes gained: putting by a substantial margin in strokes-gained terms. He's more than a tenth of a stroke ahead of Aaron Baddeley, who has long been one of the best putters on tour.
Walker is putting nearly twice as well as he did last year when he picked up .482 strokes on the field with his putter.
Tiger Woods: Pretty Much Everything
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Driving accuracy: 52.86%
Greens in regulation: 61.11%
Strokes gained: tee-to-green: -1.95
Scoring average: 72.79
Why it's eye-popping
While he was better in most of the above categories at the Greenbrier Classic in his last start, Tiger Woods has been historically awful in key categories.
He's among the worst golfers on tour in driving accuracy and greens in regulation this season. He has an above-par scoring average and is losing nearly two strokes to the field per round with his play from tee to green.
Aaron Baddeley: Hole out
6 of 10Longest hole out: 336 yards
Why it's eye-popping
This one kind of speaks for itself. Holing out from over 300 yards away on a par four is impressive.
However, to do it after hitting your first tee shot out of bounds is just crazy. Badds' hole out may be the first time a player has sunk a tee shot on a par four on the PGA Tour...for birdie.
Mike Weir: Driving, Greens in Regulation, Etc.
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Driving distance: 260.1
Driving accuracy: 47.02%
Greens in regulation: 49.37%
Strokes gained: total: -3.832
Why it's eye-popping
Mike Weir is either last or very nearly last on the PGA Tour in the statistical categories above. Never a long hitter, Weir now can't hit the ball far enough to have a prayer of making the cut on the tour with any regularity. And indeed, he's made just one cut in 15 starts.
Weir's stats are an illustration of something we already know: When you aren't long off the tee and don't hit in the fairway, it's very difficult to find greens in regulation, and you're giving up way too much to competitors to contend.
Freddie Jacobson: 3-Putt Avoidance
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Three-putt avoidance: .81% (7 three-putts in 864 holes)
Why it's eye-popping
Long a two-putt machine, Freddie Jacobson is at it again this year. Three-putting just .81 percent of the time, Jacobson is nearly twice as good at avoiding three whacks as his nearest competitor, Colt Knost, who is averaging a three putt 1.59% of the time.
Rory McIlroy: Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green
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Strokes gained: tee-to-green: 2.001
Why it's eye-popping
Rory McIlroy is the only player on tour picking up more than two strokes per round on the field average thanks to his tee-to-green play. The second-ranked golfer in the statistical category, Hideki Matsuyama, is picking up 1.751 strokes on the field average. Thus, the Ulsterman is at a significant advantage.
McIlroy's current 2.001 figure is the best on tour since 2012 when he lead all golfers, picking up 2.31 strokes on the field with his play from tee to green.
Josh Teater: Consecutive Fairways
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Consecutive fairways hit: 34
Why it's eye-popping
How many consecutive fairways have you hit? Two? Three? Josh Teater hit a ridiculous 34 in a row earlier this year, which is four better than anyone else on tour.
If you think that's impressive, consider that in 2009, Jeff Maggert hit 45 fairways in a row. Forty-five!
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