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A closer look at some of the stat leaders for the 2022-23 PGA Tour season

If you’ve been to the Tour’s stats page, you know it’s a rabbit hole where golf nerds can spend hours.

The Tour Championship is in the rearview mirror and with that, the PGA Tour has closed the book on its statistics for the 2022-23 season. If you’ve been to the Tour’s stats page, you know it’s a rabbit hole where golf nerds can spend hours exploring the numbers.

There are plenty of eye-popping numbers, including the massive increase in earnings, but many will use these stats to determine the PGA Tour’s Player of the Year.

For example, Jon Rahm had the most wins (4), with Viktor Hovland winning the final two stops of the year to finish second with three victories. There were seven others, including Scottie Scheffler, another POY candidate, with two wins.

But it was Scheffler who dominated many of the Tour’s stats this season. He finished first in the Official World Golf Ranking, FedEx Cup regular-season standings, Ryder Cup standings as well as all of these categories:

Shots gained: Off the tee
Shots gained: Approach the green
Shots gained: Tee-to-green
Shots gained: Total
Greens in regulation percentage
Scoring average
Bogey avoidance

Let’s take a look at some of the more interesting statistical leaders on the PGA Tour for the 2022-23 season. Many of these will seem obvious, but there’s probably a few here that are surprising.

Dan Pohl to Bryson DeChambeau: Longest drivers on PGA Tour since 1980

This is the list of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour for each season since 1980, when the stat was first kept.

The PGA Tour has been keeping average driving distance stats since 1980.

In 2003, the mark of 321.4 yards was achieved by Hank Kuehne and was the standard-bearer for almost two decades. During the 2019-20 season, Bryson DeChambeau broke Kuehne’s 17-year-old mark. One year later, DeChambeau broke his own mark.

Go back to 1997, where John Daly was the first to surpass the average distance of 300 yards. In all, Daly led the Tour in driving distance 11 times.

Being a big hitter doesn’t always lead to victory. Only seven of the 20 golfers on this list won a Tour event in the same year that he led in driving. In case you were wondering, neither Tiger Woods nor Phil Mickelson ever led the Tour in driving distance.

This is the list of the longest drivers on Tour starting in 1980 through the 2020-21 season.

Dan Pohl to Cameron Champ: Longest drivers on PGA Tour, 1980-2019

This is the list of the longest drivers on the PGA Tour, which started tracking the stat in 1980. The list is through the 2018-19 season.

Earlier this spring, there was considerable chatter surrounding distance gains in golf after the U.S. Golf Association and R&A released their Distance Insights Report. That prompted us to take a closer look at the players who have led the PGA Tour in driving distance.

This is the list of the longest drivers starting in 1980 – the first year the Tour started measuring drives – through the 2018-19 season.

John Daly in 1997 was the first to surpass the average distance of 300 yards. Daly led the Tour in driving distance in 11 seasons.

In 2003, Hank Kuehne became the first and only Tour player to average more than 320 yards per drive with 321.14. It was a jump of almost 15 yards from Daly’s average the year before.

Eighteen golfers have led this list over the last 40 years, with Daly appearing at the top more times than any other player. Bubba Watson is next with five distance titles. Others to have led the Tour in driving average more than one season include Dan Pohl, John McComish, Davis Love III, Hank Kuehne, Robert Garrigus, J.B. Holmes and Rory McIlroy.

Being a big hitter doesn’t always lead to victory lane. Only six of the 18 won a Tour event in the same year that they led in driving average: Daly, Watson, Garrigus, Dustin Johnson, McIlroy and Cameron Champ.

It’s interesting to note that neither Tiger Woods nor Phil Mickelson has ever led the Tour in driving distance.

Take a look at the year-by-year longest drivers on Tour.

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