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16 fascinating golf 'stats' that tell the story of the 2022 season

At the risk of stating the obvious, 2022 was an eventful year in golf. So eventful, in fact, that there are dozens of ways to review and explore everything that went on—as you'll see us do the next couple weeks with our Newsmakers package .

One of those is by breaking down a bunch of stats that sum up the season. And that's what I've done here … in a manner of speaking. What you'll read below, though, aren't conventional "stats," because 2022, while eventful, was also hardly conventional. To recap the madness of this year, I needed to go looking for my own data and uncover some numbers with nuance. The goal with each is to highlight an old story in a new way—and put into context one of the strangest golf years in memory.

The rise of LIV Golf was the defining story of the year, and there are plenty of numbers to choose from to help tell it. Most of them include dollar signs: The $8 million Pat Perez earned in six LIV events, despite an average finish of just 32nd. The $125 million Bryson DeChambeau got for signing on to the tour. The $1 billion Greg Norman claimed the tour dangled at Tiger to join.

Instead, the number that best encapsulates the LIV drama, especially early in the season, was 106: That was how many words appeared in Dustin Johnson's statement last February in what was at the time a succinct and devastating rejection of the upstart tour.

Not long after, Rory McIlroy pronounced the Saudi-backed league "dead in the water," and LIV officials feared internally he was right, that DJ’s rejection would lead to the imminent collapse of the entire endeavor. As it turns out, golf’s civil war wasn't over before it began, just merely delayed.

Each year, a club comes along that captures the conversation. In 2022, it was TaylorMade’s Stealth driver.

The red-faced driver is constructed with 60 layers of a lighter carbon-fiber material, which frees up weight that can be displaced lower and further back into the driver head. McIlroy and Tiger Woods, among many others, switched at their earliest opportunity. So did Scottie Scheffler, setting the stage for a historic season to come.

4 wins in 6 starts

Scheffler came into 2022 an interesting and exciting young talent, but also a winless one on the PGA Tour. Yet in the space of six events between February and March, the 26-year-old former University of Texas All-American was the green-jacket wearing World No. 1. Players have gone on hot streaks before, but few have burned so furiously as Scheffler’s, the wins coming in disperate places (TPC Scottsdale and Bay Hill), different formats (Match Play win at Austin C.C.) and in a major. His barnstorming form, paired with a laissez-faire attitude about what may happen next, proved a simply unbeatable combination.

2 questions

It's almost hard to remember, but 2022 marked the year Tiger Woods assumed his formal place in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Ordinarily a stiff and cordial affair, the induction ceremony in March was an emotional, powerful moment for Tiger.

Tiger was introduced by his daughter Sam. When he assumed the podium, he spoke candidly about his life in golf, and powerfully about the racism he endured as one of the few people of color playing junior golf. Tiger revealed how he would answer those moments with the kind of calm and icy fury we’ve grown accustomed to with, asking just two simple questions: What’s the course record? Where’s the first tee?

29 water balls

Saturday at the 2022 Players Championship was, without doubt, the most fun I’ve ever had watching golf. The rain-plagued tournament finally resumed its second round on the weekend, and when it did, the wind gusted to 40 mph. It made TPC Sawgrass’ famed 17th hole almost unplayable—29 balls found the water over the course of the day. Brooks Koepka, Jordan Spieth, Xander Schauffele and Scottie Scheffler shot 81, 79, 78 and 76, respectively.

Yet out of the carnage we saw a round of creative brilliance from Justin Thomas, whose bogey-free 69 was complete with a pitching wedge that flew 185 yards downwind, and a 5-wood that traveled 193 into the wind.

219.8 yards

The same month of the Players, the USGA released its annual distance report. There were lots of compelling nuggets in there, but perhaps the most interesting was the USGA’s revelation of the average driving distance for amateur golfers. According to the report, male golfers with a handicap between six and 12 drive the ball 219 yards on average, while their female counterparts average 177 yards.

That’s probably shorter than you expected, and if you’re wondering why, the answer is actually quite simple: Yes, those golfers are capable of hitting the ball far further. But for every 260-yard drive they hit, they add in a topped shot or wicked slice into the trees, which brings the overall average down. It’s inconsistency, the report explains, that's the real distance killer for the rest of us.

Golf is a game of misses—except for Jin Young Ko. En route to victory at the HSBC Women's World Championship in March, the 27-year-old South Korean went on an unholy streak of hitting 66 consecutive greens in regulation. Her secret, she says, was avoiding the trap of chasing pins. Instead, she stayed laser focused on the fattest part of the green.

Though Ko went on the hottest greens-in-regulation streak, Lexi Thompson remained the tour’s greens-in-regulation queen. A generational ball-striker, Thompson finished second in the stat in GIR and hit more than 77 percent of them in 2022, marking her 11th consecutive year inside the top 11 in that statistic.

Coming into 2022, Nelly Korda looked unstoppable. The 23-year-old had clocked four LPGA wins, including her first major, in addition to her gold medal victory at the Olympics a year earlier. But just as the season started to heat up, Korda was sidelined with a shocking injury : A blood clot on her right arm. She was hospitalized, skipped the first major of the season and forced to wait 119 days before returning to competition.

Douglas P. DeFelice

It was a brutal momentum-stopper for a woman who in early January had surpassed Stacy Lewis as the American to have spent the most weeks ranked No. 1 in the world . Yet by November, she was a winner once more, taking the title in the LPGA's penultimate event in 2022 and briefly returning to the top of the Rolex Women's Ranking.

13.72 percent

Golf fans had been eagerly anticipating Jordan Spieth’s return to form. In 2022, we got our first glimpses of it. Spieth popped into contention at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (where he finished second), then won the RBC Heritage in April before finishing second again the following week at the Byron Nelson.

Spieth came into the season sporting a new eye-catching practice swing that he said would help him recover his swing’s “DNA.” Spieth’s goal was to feel the club steepen on the backswing and then shallow on the downswing before turning aggressively though the ball. ”I want to feel like I hit the ball with my pivot,” he said. Whatever the feeling, it worked. The previous season, Spieth missed right almost 18 percent of the time, ranking him 175th on tour.

In 2022, his miss right percentage dropped to less than 14 percent. It helped Spieth gain strokes off the tee with his driver for the first time in four seasons and provided a platform for him to build on going forward.

65 mentions

Back to LIV, which, by the time the U.S. Open rolled into Brookline, Mass., had totally, utterly and completely dominated the conversation in golf. Dustin Johnson had performed his U-turn by this point, and the first event had been played outside London.

The dog days of summer were a frustrating time to be a golf journalist, forced into an unwinnable situation of needing to ask about LIV to players who were either not speaking honestly about it or frustrated at being asked in the first place. Nevertheless, that was the scene ahead of the U.S. Open. The transcripts tell the story: From the 12 official pre-tournament press conferences, the word “LIV” was mentioned by players or media an astonishing 65 times.

Thankfully, there was, indeed, golf played that week at The Country Club, and the winner emerged as the golfiest golfer of them all. It’s easy to forget that Matt Fitzpatrick was embroiled in a momentary controversy with Bryson DeChambeau in the aftermath of Bryson's Winged Foot victory in 2020.

“It’s not a skill to hit the ball a long way in my opinion,” Fitzpatrick said. “I could put on 40 pounds. I could go and see a bio-mechanist and I could gain 40 yards; that’s actually a fact. I could put another two inches on my driver. I could gain that, but the skill in my opinion is to hit the ball straight. That’s the skill, he’s just taking the skill out of it in my opinion.”

Fitzpatrick walked back those comments—so much that he eventually decided to adopt the blueprint altogether . He employed the use of DeChambeau's same biomechanist consultant, Dr. Sasho Mackenzie, ditched his fade for a lower-spinning draw, packed on some extra muscle and adopted a speed training routine. He couldn’t beat them, so he joined them.

And it worked.

Between 2021 and 2022, Fitzpartick gained seven mph of ball speed on his driver, 10 yards in total, and had his hands on the same trophy Bryson had two years prior.

RELATED: The inside story of Matt Fitzpatrick's dramatic transformation

Will Zalatoris finished second to Fitzpatrick at Brookline, his second-consecutive major runner-up. The 26-year-old, just starting his third full year on the PGA Tour, is often maligned as a sub-standard putter, especially from short range. By tour standards, I suppose that’s true. But it’s worth remembering how good a substandard putter on the PGA Tour actually is.

Keyur Khamar

Zalatoris finished second on tour in approach putt performance, and made 926 of his 1,065 putts—just shy of 87 percent—inside 10 feet over the course of the 2021-22 season. He finished 161st in the stat, but the difference between Zalatoris being a statistically sub-standard putter on tour from this range, and an above average one, was about 10 putts. If he had holed 10 more putts from this range, which equates to one every eight rounds, the narrative doesn't hold up any more.

The margins on tour rest on the thinnest razor’s edge. Zalatoris found himself just on the wrong side of it majors this year, but his time will come.

Rory McIlroy, by all accounts, had a fantastic season . Three wins on the PGA Tour; a second, a third, a fifth and an eighth in the four majors; and a return to World No. 1. It feels wrong to focus on a less-than-flattering statistic after a yearly performance like that, but as the talent ceiling gets raised, so goes the bar of expectation. McIlroy cast a frustrated figure after his fifth-place finish at the U.S. Open—“Another top-five in a major. I guess it doesn't really mean anything,” he said after his final round. He spoke of needing to stay positive and patient, that those qualities will soon be rewarded. Through three rounds at the Open Championship the next month, he looked like he’d be proven right.

BEN STANSALL

And then, McIlroy took 36 putts during his final round, the second-worst of any player in the field that day. He lost by two shots, and the only two birdies he made on Sunday came on two-putts on greens in hit under regulation. It underlined a common theme from McIlroy in majors: A story of quality, marred with unforced errors and submission.

In some ways, Rory seems too intelligent and mature for his own good. Along the way, he’s forgotten his own formula for best golf: That he plays his best when he plays less like Tiger, and more like Phil. With an air of reckless abandon. A freewheeling, screw-the-stats, something-to-prove irrationality.

McIlroy is a lifelong Manchester United supporter, so he knows that after years of success on the pitch came to a grinding halt upon the retirement of manager Sir Alex Ferguson, the team spent years mired in a more more conventional, conservative approach. The thousands of fans watching in the stands soon adopted a commanding chant: “Attack, Attack, Attack!” Watching McIlroy defend his way around a gettable St. Andrews that Sunday, I found uttering the same thing.

The man who finished between McIlroy and eventual winner Cameron Smith at St. Andrews was Cameron Young, who this season established himself as one of golf's brightest rising stars. Young is a prototypical "new school" golfer who has built his game around aggressive driving: His ball speeds are among the fastest on the PGA Tour, routinely surpassing 190 mph.

He covers a whopping 70.22 percent of the yardage on par 4 holes with his tee shots, and the hang time on his drives averages a tour-leading eight seconds (seriously, count properly to seven seconds and think about how long that is for a ball to stay in the air).

Earlier this year, I asked his father and coach what he thought junior golfers, and their parents, could learn from Youngs. He came up with three sage piece of advice: Avoid getting technical early, make sure their grip is in a neutral spot, and build good athleticism early by playing other sports.

Once the season was out, my boss, Sam Weinman, crafted for himself a truly fascinating experiment with tour player Joel Dahmen: What might an 11 handicap shoot if a tour player hits all his drives?

The answer was 81.

Were it not for a few flubbed chips, missed putts and poor decision making, it could’ve been lower. But of course, that’s exactly the point with amateur golfers. Through some combination of sloppiness and a specific skill deficiency, we always find a way to leave something on the table.

-.651 strokes

A second-consecutive victory for Viktor Hovland at the Hero World Challenge was a reminder that the Norwegian has all the making of a future World No. 1. What makes that such a fascinating idea is that unlike other elite players in the game, he’ll do so with clear weakness in his game. Hovland ranked 191st on the PGA Tour in SG: Around the Green, losing more than half a stroke per round. Earlier this year his coach, Golf Digest Best in State Jeff Smith, shared some fascinating insight into why .

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It’s that the qualities in Hovland’s golf swing that make him one of the best ball-strikers in golf pose some unique challenges around the green. The leading edge will often dig into the turf, which can lead to chunks and other inconsistencies.

To fix it, Hovland needs to re-learn a new technique. You can’t take the good without the bad, and no matter what level you play this crazy game, the journey to getting better never ends.

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2022 Tour Championship leaderboard, winner: Rory McIlroy comes from behind to win $18M payout, third FedEx Cup

Mcilroy battled from 10 back to pick up his biggest win since the 2019 players championship.

One could not discuss the future of the PGA Tour this season without Rory McIlroy's name being on their lips. On Sunday at the 2022 Tour Championship, McIlroy reminded he's just as integral in the present. Despite trailing by as many as 10 shots at East Lake Golf Club in the final event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, McIlroy (-21) rallied Sunday to usurp world No. 1-ranked golfer Scottie Scheffler, become the first three-time winner in the history of the FedEx Cup and bank the $18 million first-place prize that comes with the trophy.

Unlike some tournaments in which he digs himself into a hole from which he needs to fight out -- which he surely did by kicking off this event with a triple bogey Thursday -- McIlroy was in the conversation from the start at East Lake by posting 67s in consecutive rounds to open play. However, it was the third-round back nine that he concluded early Sunday that made him a true contender as Rory birdied three of his last six holes to card a 63 and claim his spot alongside Scheffler in the final pairing as he put pressure on the 54-hole leader despite a six-stroke deficit.

"I've been in the final group here three of the last five years," said McIlroy. "I didn't give myself much of a chance teeing off today. Six behind, I thought it was going to be really tough to make up. But [between] my good play and Scottie's not-so-great play, it was a ballgame going into the back nine."

McIlroy's fourth round started with a bogey, but he pulled even with Scheffler after the Texan put three bogeys on his scorecard in the initial six holes. With McIlroy converting five birdies across his first 12 holes, the race was officially on as the two came around the turn. Another bogey on the 14th pushed McIlroy back behind Scheffler, but Rory immediately responded with an astounding 31-foot birdie putt on the 15th that sent the crowd into a frenzy and again sat him in a tie atop the leaderboard.

It was the par-4 16th where McIlroy almost came undone. Sitting in a fairway bunker after his second shot, his third flew over the green by nearly 30 yards. However, Rory's ensuing chip dinged the flag pole, Scheffler missed a 9-foot par putt and McIlroy saved par to take the solo lead and become the first golfer to wrestle the top spot away from Scheffler this week.

Leading by a stroke entering the 18th, McIlroy watched as Scheffler found a bunker only to follow by bouncing his own approach off the grandstand into the rough. When Scheffler airmailed the green with his third shot from the bunker, that left McIlroy the option to conservatively play to the middle of the green and two putt for the FedEx Cup crown.

"I feel like Scottie deserves at least half of this today," McIlroy first said after being introduced as champion. "He's had an unbelievable season. I feel sort of bad … but he's a helluva competitor. He's an even better guy. It was an honor and a privilege to battle him today."

Scheffler, a four-time PGA Tour winner this season and the world's top-ranked golfer for nearly the entire year, tied for second alongside Sungjae Im; each took home $5.75 million, splitting the second- and third-place prizes.

McIlroy later mentioned the "battle of Georgia" between the two titans of the game as Scheffler got the better of McIlroy at the 2022 Masters at Augusta National in April. While the bounces went the way of the 26-year-old at the year's first major championship (and for much of the year), on Sunday, the golf gods willed the man from Northern Ireland to victory, making amends for a season that featured four top-10 finishes in the major championships including a heartbreaker (in The Open Championship at St. Andrews) and left sourness in the mouth of McIlroy.

"It means an awful lot [to win the Tour Championship]," said McIlroy. "I believe in the game of golf. I believe in this tour in particular. I believe in the players on this tour. It's the greatest place in the world to play golf, bar none, and I've played all over the world.

"This is an incredibly proud moment for me, but it should also be an incredibly proud moment for the PGA Tour. They've had some hard times this year, but we're getting through it. That was a spectacle out there today -- two of the best players in the world going head-to-head for the biggest prize on the PGA Tour -- and I hope everyone at home enjoyed that."

Becoming the figurehead of the PGA Tour, leading the charge against the upstart LIV Golf Series and still being able to perform on the highest level on the biggest stage, the taste of victory was that much sweeter for McIlroy in Atlanta.

In a week which began with McIlroy and Tiger Woods spearheading efforts off the golf course to ensure the future of the game, it was McIlroy's performance inside the ropes that again proved what the PGA Tour has cannot be recreated.

Here is the breakdown of the rest of the leaderboard at the 2022 Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club.

T2. Scottie Scheffler, Sungjae Im (-20): The stars were aligned for Scheffler to claim history at East Lake. Starting the week with a two-stroke lead, building it to as many as seven and beginning the final round with a six-stroke edge, Scheffler simply let the FedEx Cup slip through his fingers. After playing his final six holes in 4 under to wrap up his third round Sunday morning, it felt inevitable this week would continue in the same fashion as his spring when he captured his four victories. 

With a win, Scheffler would have secured the richest season in the history of the PGA Tour and only the fifth five-win season of the last decade, joining Tiger Woods, Jason Day, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas. He also would have put a stamp on what has been a breakout campaign. While the $12.25 million difference between the first-place prize and Scheffler's T2 sum may sting, Scheffler will take solace in an astoundingly great season. He is likely to be named your PGA Tour Player of the Year and remains world No. 1, but alas, sometimes even the best fall short when the lights are the brightest.

The adopted son of Atlanta, Im was casually going about his business and tried his damnedest to recover from a major blunder on his back nine Sunday. He had gotten within one stroke of the lead on multiple occasions, but it was a double bogey on the par-4 14th that ultimately took his name out of FedEx Cup contention. With only one victory to his credit on the season, Im's consistency finally paid dividends in the form of a shared second-place check. He entered the postseason with back-to-back runner-up finishes and rode this momentum into three straight top-15 finishes. It's easy to forget Im is only 24, and who is to say a Scheffler-type season is not on the horizon for him as he now hopes to lead the international team to a massive upset in the Presidents Cup in September. 

4. Xander Schauffele (-18): The East Lake savant was one of three players to touch the lead during the Tour Championship, but Schauffele immediately back tracked once he did. Without the Saturday rain delay, perhaps we are discussing a different story, but in the end, the weekend was his eventual undoing. One of only four players to not break par in the third round, Schauffele wasn't able to keep up with his playing competitor, Scheffler, and eventually the rest of the field.

T5. Max Homa, Justin Thomas (-17):  Homa, the man who claimed the first tournament of the 2021-22 campaign, bookended his season in impressive fashion. Playing his final 56 holes in 18 under, Homa was able to climb from the depths of the leaderboard and into a seven-figure paycheck. The self-belief king should only continue this trajectory heading into next year as he has added two victories, a top-five finish at the Tour Championship and (more than likely) an appearance for the United States in the Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow -- the site of his first PGA Tour win -- to his playing résumé. 

T7. Patrick Cantlay, Sepp Straka (-16): This week had all the makings of back-to-back FedEx Cup titles for Cantlay as the reigning PGA Tour Player of the Year was just an adequate putting performance away from claiming the year's top prize. Beginning the week in the second position at 8 under, the Californian was a mainstay on the first page of the leaderboard despite some struggles on the greens. Cantlay was among the leaders in both ball-striking metrics yet uncharacteristically ranked outside the top 25 in strokes gained putting out of just 29 players. He was statistically better than last season, but despite that achievement, the 30-year-old's hardware haul of the Zurich Classic and the BMW Championship feels a smidge light.

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Rory retakes lead after wild 16th

Finding the fairway bunker, McIlroy flew the green with his approach. Hitting the pin off a fiery lie behind the green, the Northern Irishman was able to get up-and-down with a 7-foot par save. Meanwhile Scheffler failed to save par from the greenside bunker giving McIlroy the solo lead at 21 under. Ahead, Im is on No. 18 at 20 under and will look for an eagle-3 to shake things up.

Rory makes a mess of 14

He had to hit a 5-footer to save bogey after blocking his approach shot. Down one with four holes to go. Intensity is cranking up as Scheffler is fist pumping and Rory was on his knees begging for a pitch shot to hurry. Good stuff at East Lake.

Max Homa's rise

In 2017, Homa missed 15 of 17 cuts and made $18,000 for the year on the PGA Tour. Today, he's in position to potentially win $4 million by finishing third at the Tour Championship. He's currently T5 with a few holes to play.

Costly double bogey for Sungjae Im

After getting to within one stroke of the lead, Sungjae Im backtracked in a big way on the difficult par-4 14th. Making double bogey without a penalty stroke, the South Korean has likely taken himself out of contention for the FedEx Cup as he sits alone in third place.

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A closer look at some of the stat leaders for the 2022-23 pga tour season, share this article.

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.

Driving distance

Rory McIlroy hits his tee shot on the seventh hole during the third round of the 2023 FedEx St. Jude Championship TPC Southwind. (Photo: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports)

Rory McIlroy won his third driving title this season (he also won in 2017, 2018), as he averaged 326.3 yards per drive. That’s more than 5.1 yards per drive longer than the next guy on the list, Brandon Matthews (321.2). It’s also the longest since the Tour started keeping the stat in 1980. Bryson DeChambeau’s 323.7 yards per drive in 2021 was the previous mark and McIlroy topped that by nearly three yards. Cameron Young (316.9), Cameron Champ (316.1) and Matti Schmid (315.8) round out the top five.

The PGA Tour average for driving distance is 299.9. There were 92 golfers who averaged more than 300 yards per drive.

Source: pgatour.com

Driving accuracy

Russell Henley plays from the 18th tee during the final round of the 2023 Wyndham Championship. (Photo: David Yeazell-USA TODAY Sports)

While Rory McIlroy was tops in driving distance, he was 157th in driving accuracy.

Russell Henley led the stats in the accuracy category, as he hit 71.74 percent of fairways during the season. Out of 1,118 possible fairways, Henley hit 802 of them. He was the only one over 70 percent for the year.

Collin Morikawa was next at 69.55 percent. Nos. 3 through 5 on this list are Ryan Moore, Aaron Rai, Ryan Armour.

Source: pgatour.com .

Greens in regulation

Scottie Scheffler plays a shot on the third hole during the first round of the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson. (Photo: Raymond Carlin III-USA TODAY Sports)

Scheffler led the Tour in GIR at 74.47 percent after hitting 1,126 greens out of 1,512 holes played. Nos. 2 through 5 on this list: Kevin Yu (72.96), Doug Ghim (70.56), Jon Rahm (70.48) and Collin Morikawa (70.47).

Putting average

Taylor Montgomery lines up a putt for par on the 14th hole during round one of the 2023 WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale. (Photo: Alex Gould/The Republic)

Taylor Montgomery had the top putting average with 1.659 with Sam Ryder, Eric Cole, Max Homa and Sahith Theegala right behind. The Tour average was 1.765. Montgomery also led putts per round with 27.13. Maverick McNealy was first in SG: Putting at 1.058.

Most eagles

Kevin Tway plays from the sixth fairway during the first round of the 2023 RBC Heritage in Hilton Head, South Carolina. (Photo: David Yeazell-USA TODAY Sports)

Kevin Tway led the way with 18 eagles. The Tour average was two.

• Kevin Tway, 18
• Taylor Montgomery, 16
• Lee Hodges, 15
• Jon Rahm, 15
• Ryan Brehm, 14
• Hayden Buckley, 14
• Wyndham Clark, 14
• Vincent Norrman, 14
• Brandon Wu, 14

Most birdies

Eric Cole waves to fans after making a birdie on the eighth green during the second round of the 2023 Travelers Championship. (Photo: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports)

The Tour average was 90. Eric Cole was way above that average in the most birdies category as he collected 438 of them. Stephan Jaeger (434) Wyndham Clark (419), Ben An (418) and Sungjae Im (413) round out the top five.

Scottie Scheffler has a laugh before teeing off at the first hole during the third round of the 2023 FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis. (Photo: Chris Day/The Commercial Appeal)

Scottie Scheffler was anything but average as he posted 68.629 for the season. Rory McIlroy (68.777) was not far behind. Those were the only two to go sub-69 for the season. Jon Rahm (69.037) was third with Xander Schauffele (69.083) fourth and Viktor Hovland (69.123) fifth.

Notable is that Scheffler played 88 Tour rounds this season, 24 more than McIlroy and 17 more than Rahm.

The Tour average was 71.091.

Brian Harman plays a shot from a bunker on the 12th hole on Day Two of The 151st Open at Royal Liverpool Golf Club on July 21, 2023, in Hoylake, England. (Photo by Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images)

Brian Harman, Champion Golfer of the Year after winning his first major at the 2023 Open Championship, led this category at 67.74 percent.

The Tour average was 58.45.

Jonathan Byrd (66.35) was second to Harman, while Matt Kuchar (65.76) was third. J.J. Spaun (65.74) and Tommy Fleetwood (65.47) are fourth and fifth, respectively.

Jon Rahm and his caddie, Adam Hayes, stand with the Masters trophy during the green jacket ceremony at the 2023 Masters. (Photo: Danielle Parhizkaran-USA TODAY Network)

Rahm won four times, which was twice as many as the next guys on this list unless Viktor Hovland won this third in the season-ending Tour Championship. Rahm won two signature events and a major, his second career major, at the Masters. There were seven golfers with two wins each.

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On a list mostly filled with LIV golfers who earned official money at the 2023 majors, PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka is No. 1 with $5,057,192.

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Scheffler set the mark for most money earned in a single season during the 2021-22 campaign with more than $14 million.

This season, thanks to two victories, in particular the Players Championship, and his 15 top 10s, Scheffler went over the $20 million mark, the first-ever to do so. To be exact, he made $21,014,342 .

Add up just his last two seasons and Scheffler has banked more than $35 million dollars. His career total is $40 million.

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Scottie Scheffler Wins 2022 Masters

Storyline : Entered as the world No. 1 and cemented status with maiden major trophy.

2022 Masters Tournament

Dates : April 7-10, 2022 Where : Augusta, Ga. Course : Augusta National GC Distance : Par 72, 7435 yards

Champion: Scottie Scheffler

Age : June 21, 1996 (25) Nationality American Height : 6′ 3″ Weight : 200 lbs Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1 Winnings: $2.7M OWGR : 1st to 1st Scores : 69, 67, 71, 71 To Par/Margin : -10 (3 strokes) Driving : 298.9 yards Fairways : 76.8%, 43/56 Greens : 68.1%, 49/72 Scoring : 21 Birdies, 41 Pars, 9 Bogeys, 1 Double

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Pos-Player-To Par (Final Rd) 1 . Scottie Scheffler -10 (-1) 2 . Rory McIlroy -7 (-8) 3 . Shane Lowry -5 (-3) 3 . Cameron Smith -5 (+1) 5 . Collin Morikawa -4 (-5)

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Champion: Justin Thomas

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Dates : June 16-19, 2022 Where : Brookline, MA Course : The Country Club Distance : Par 70, 7254 yards

Champion: Matt Fitzpatrick

Age : Sep 1, 1994 (27) Nationality: England Height : 5′ 10″ Weight : 165 lb Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1x Winnings: $3.15M OWGR : 18th to 10th Scores : 68, 70, 68, 68 To Par/Margin : -6 (1 stroke) Driving : 309.2 yards Fairways : 69.64%, 39/56 Greens : 72.2%, 52/72 Scoring : 19 Birdies, 40 Pars, 13 Bogeys

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Pos-Player-To Par (Final Rd) 1 . Matt Fitzpatrick -6 (-2) 2 . Scottie Scheffler -5 (-3) 2 . Will Zalatoris -5 (-1) 4 . Hideki Matsuyama -3 (-5) 5 . Collin Morikawa -2 (-4) 5 . Rory McIlroy -2 (-1)

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Dates:  July 14-17, 2022 Where: St. Andrews, Scotland Course:  Old Course, St. Andrews Distance: Par 72, 7313 yards

Champion: Cam Smith

Age : Aug. 18, 1993 (28) Nationality: Australian Height : 5′ 11″ Weight : 175 lb Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1x Winnings : $2.5M OWGR : 4th to 3rd Scores : 67, 64, 73, 64 To Par/Margin : -20 (1 stroke) Scoring : 1 Eagle, 22 Birdies, 46 Pars, 2 Bogeys, 1 Double

Smith’s Four Rounds at The Open

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2022 The Open: Top 5

Pos-Player-To Par (Final Rd) 1 . Cameron Smith -20 (-8) 2 . Cameron Young -19 (-7) 3 . Rory McIlroy -18 (-2) 4 . Tommy Fleetwood -14 (-5) 4 . Viktor Hovland -14 (+2)

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Club Speed, Attack Angle, Ball Speed, Smash Factor, Launch Angle, Spin Rate, Max Height, Land Angle and Carry.

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So the average male Tour pro hits down on the ball slightly with the driver? Should attack angle vary with clubhead speed?

The attack angle for the pros varies on woods, but it’s more or less negative when it comes to hybrids and irons. For the average player, the attack angle on drivers varies and in general so should the ball that is hit from the ground always have a negative attack angle in order to get a better margin of error for the impact.

However, in order to get the longest carry possible, the ball should launch high with low spin. The optimal numbers are individual based on club speed – and that type of flight can easier be achieved if the spin loft is low together with a high dynamic loft. The more the attack angle is negative, then the higher the spin loft gets => the attack angle should be closer to 0 if anything IF the goal is to carry as long as possible.

But generally, the attack angle for irons should be from -2 – -5 for almost all players, but for drivers you can hit it further with a positive attack angle, no matter the club speed.

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Can you send me the optimal numbers across the board that players and coaches should be looking for in lessons and trackman sessions

Strangely enough, with a driver you can achieve a carry of 300 vs 275 with the same clubhead speed of 113. Adam Young tries to get people to convert to this method. Attack angle = +8 degrees Launch angle = 19 degrees Backspin = 2,000 Smash Factor= 1.5

Hi. I can only confirm. I achieve those positive angles and l can carry the driver (9 degr loft) 245 yards with a club speed of 95mph. Rollout is average 20 yards.

No, it is 3° and that means the clubhead is movin upwards. – is downwards.

You are reading the LPGA (ladies) numbers Tim. The PGA (men) average is -1.3.

Looks like the average LPGA players trackman swing speed is more or less the same as an average 10 hcp male player. Though the ladies are a lot more skilled in hitting it on the right angles and in the right spot on the clubface. Would an average 10 hcp male player have a advantage or disadvantege using graphite shafts?

Harry, any player of any handicap can benefit from graphite shafts. More often than not, the memory in most players’ minds from graphite stems from a very long time ago when graphite was ONLY graphite. It was whippy, and not very accurate. Material advances and composite technology have nearly rendered steel obsolete. I say nearly, mind you. There are a number of outstanding graphite shafts out there that are super stable and responsive, enabling a lighter club and longer distance without sacrificing accuracy. Fujikura makes some really nice iron shafts that fuse both steel and graphite technologies called MCI. In fact, i have Fuji PRO 95i shafts in my irons and my iron game is better now than it ever was with steel. I’m a 3.5 index and relatively strong but it allows me to play all out without getting tired on the back 9 from heavy clubs. Being a club builder, i can tell you that in golf equipment there’s a trade-off in everything. wether it’s length, weight, or feel so your advantage or disadvantage is dependent on how precisely you build your piece of equipment.

Hey Chris thanks for the info below i find it very interesting. Curious do you have those same shafts in your wedges or do you have steel in your wedges? I played SteelFiber i95 shafts last year in all my irons including wedges. I liked them in my irons but i felt like it hurt my game in wedges. Do you have any thoughts on this? Thanks

Agreed. Shallow your angle of attack to match the LPGA players.

I have had a number of sessions on a Trackman, (the latest on Aug 22, 2015, at “Modern Golf” in Mississauga On.). My clubhead speed and distances are about the same as LPGA averages. I was doing wedge work, and see that for a pitching wedge, (48°), my angle of attack -about 7.5° – is n=much higher than LPGA average. My accuracy is good, (only 3 0f 19 shots more that 20′ away, and all when the face angle was over 4° closed). I’m thinking that I should weaken my left hand a bit, (it’s a little strong on pitch shots), and play the ball farther forward- 2″ ahead of centre. Am I on the right track, or will these changes introduce new problems?

I’m 74 years old, and am a long-time PGA of Canada member. Thanks for any feedback…. love Trackman outings.

I would recommend that you visit one of our certified coaches, he/she would be able to help you and find what numbers are best for you.

See our TrackMan Locator here.

I don’t disagree with these stats but I do it;s kinda weird. 87 miles mph with an 8 iron should produce 177 yards of carry not 160 that’s a lot of mph. Iv’e seen high school kids hit 9 iron 165 and they don’t swing 100 mph with a 9 iron. When I swing hard I hit my 8 iron 155 and my legit radar read 72 mph so logic would dictate at 88 mph you would get more like 180 yards carry again that’s a lot of mph.

Remember that’s a carry number not total distance. Also since the pros produce significant more back spin, their ball flight is higher, landing angle loftier producing minimum roll whereas your total distance might be benefiting from maximum roll. One more thing to check would be launch angle where you might be hitting a low ball flight to maximize distance which in my opinion is “cheating.”

The PGA Tour 8-iron goes 160 in the air for a couple of reasons. One, they usually hit weaker lofts than high school players (like I) do. Secondly, they spin their 8-iron at 7998 RPM to stop the ball on fast greens. I believe this is the combination that makes the 8-iron go so much shorter.

I’ve hit thousands of balls on Foresight simulators, and what I’ve found is that backspin significantly influences carry distance. Holding club head speed constant, greater backspin reduces carry distance on all clubs.

For mid-irons, I’d estimate that you lose roughly 5-7 yards of carry per 1,000 RPM in additional backspin. And with the driver it’s easily 10+ yards of carry lost per 1,000 RPM.

This explains why poorly struck balls will often fly as far, if not further, than a well-hit shot. The key to backspin is crispness of contact – a poorly struck shot simply won’t spin as much. Unless the impact is absolutely terrible, the lack of backspin on poorly struck shots will cause those balls to carry further than a well-struck ball. So if you’re flying balls over the green with your irons, the culprit could be too little backspin caused by poor contact, cheap balls, a dirty club face, etc.

I think this is also the key reason why fades don’t carry as far as draws. It’s not that a draw swing is any faster/more powerful – it’s simply that fades have more backspin due to the impact geometry/physics involved with that swing.

Now I may be wrong on some of this, so I’d love to get a true expert’s take.

One thing I forgot to add to my comment above is that you need a minimum of backspin on all golf shots just to get the ball up in the air. That may be 1,500 RPM for woods and maybe 3,000 for irons.

My point is that increasing backspin beyond this base level will generally reduce carry. For example, I can guarantee that increasing the backspin on your 7 iron from 5k to 7.5k will reduce your carry with that club, even if your swinging faster at 7.5k.

I totally disagree with your premise. Draws carrying further than fades? That makes no sense.

Bare in mind tour players play with proper golf clubs which are weak lofted so the people you see hitting a 9 iron further than tour average 8 it’s probably because that 9 iron is closer to a 7 iron loft

Spin determines weather you hit a draw or fade so logic would dictate distance will also be effected. In my experience draws do tend to be further for 2 reasons and both have to do with spin. With a draw you will usually get more roll out as well as flight because of the decrease in spin. This is especially true with a driver.

Depends what clubs you are using. There can be as much as 7 degrees of variation between a ‘standard’ loft on a 7 iron. If you’re playing the Callaway Mavrik irons, you’ll get 27 degrees of loft on a 7 iron. If you’re playing the Callaway Apex Pro then its 34 degrees. That’s a two club difference.

I was custom fit recently for the Apex 21’s and currently play Apex MBs. With the MBs my 7 iron has 34 degrees of loft and flies 165yds with 89mph average club head speed. Same swing with the Apex 21s (30 degrees of loft) flies between 177 – 180 yds. Big difference.

Larry , I would highly recommend you see Mark Evershed . Buy him lunch and get the answers your looking for .

Hi guys this was a recent session with a cobra 3 wood 16 deg loft.my question is my launch angle seems a little low ,interested in your thoughts .thanks Shot # Club Club Speed (mph) Ball Speed (mph) Smash Factor Launch Angle (degrees) Direction Back Spin (rpm) Carry Distance (yards) Total Distance (yards) 1 3 Wood 94 143 1.52 8.80 Straight 3874.00 215.00 232.00 2 3 Wood 98 148 1.51 9.10 Straight 4096.00 223.00 240.00 3 3 Wood 94 142 1.51 9.10 Straight 3904.00 213.00 230.00 4 3 Wood 94 143 1.52 8.80 Straight 3874.00 215.00 232.00 5 3 Wood 96 145 1.51 9.10 Straight 4000.00 219.00 236.00 6 3 Wood 94 143 1.52 8.80 Straight 3874.00 215.00 232.00 7 3 Wood 94 143 1.52 8.80 Straight 3874.00 215.00 232.00 8 3 Wood 93 141 1.52 8.80 Straight 3826.00 212.00 229.00 9 3 Wood 92 129 1.40 12.40 Straight 4138.00 190.00 207.00 10 3 Wood 94 142 1.51 9.10 Straight 3904.00 213.00 230.00 11 3 Wood 94 142 1.51 9.10 Straight 3904.00 213.00 230.00 12 3 Wood 94 143 1.52 8.80 Straight 3874.00 215.00 232.00 13 3 Wood 96 145 1.51 9.10 Straight 4000.00 219.00 236.00 14 3 Wood 93 140 1.51 9.10 Straight 3856.00 210.00 227.00 15 3 Wood 96 146 1.52 8.80 Straight 3970.00 220.00 237.00 16 3 Wood 92 140 1.52 8.80 Straight 3778.00 210.00 227.00 17 3 Wood 95 144 1.52 8.80 Straight 3922.00 216.00 233.00 18 3 Wood 96 145 1.51 9.10 Straight 4000.00 219.00 236.00 19 3 Wood 94 142 1.51 9.10 Straight 3904.00 213.00 230.00 20 3 Wood 91 137 1.51 9.10 Straight 3760.00 204.00 221.00 21 3 Wood 94 143 1.52 8.80 Straight 3874.00 215.00 232.00 22 3 Wood 95 144 1.52 8.80 Straight 3922.00 216.00 233.00 23 3 Wood 95 144 1.52 8.80 Straight 3922.00 216.00 233.00 24 3 Wood 96 146 1.52 8.80 Straight 3970.00 220.00 237.00 25 3 Wood 96 146 1.52 8.80 Straight 3970.00 220.00 237.00 26 3 Wood 96 145 1.51 9.10 Straight 4000.00 219.00 236.00 27 3 Wood 94 137 1.46 10.60 Straight 4054.00 204.00 221.00 28 3 Wood 94 143 1.52 8.80 Straight 3874.00 215.00 232.00 29 3 Wood 98 142 1.45 10.90 Straight 4276.00 213.00 230.00

What kind of balls were you using?

Brent. This was at a driving range with srixon range balls

Ok the one number that really stood out to me was the smash factor. Usually anything above a 1.50 indicates something is illegal. There’s a reason not even the PGA tour players aren’t averaging 1.50 off the tee. Other than that your numbers look good.

Brent what about the launch angle

Yes the launch is a little on the low side. But seeing how you’re still getting decent distance I wouldn’t worry too much about how it’s coming out. But try hitting down on the ball more to get it up in the air faster.

I frequently get above 1.5 on trackman with longer irons and my woods (I have raised this with your tech teams already). This is because your machine measures club speed just before impact and doesn’t detect acceleration through impact

Trackman doesn’t detect acceleration through impact on solidly struck shots so you can post smash factors above 1.5. It’s best to just rely on ball speed with Trackman

Brent in one of your comments you said my smash factor was high ,had a session last night at range and some of my smash factors were 1.53 is this something to try and change and if so how do I change it

Like you had said you were using range balls correct? If so the smash factor will be a little off since they aren’t a legal tournament ball. What the smash factor (as explained to me by the Carolinas PGA rules committee chairman) is, is a measurement of how well the ball comes off the face. There’s a specific calculation for it but I’m not positive of it and anything over a 1.50 usually is a tell tale sign that either the club or ball is illegal. What I would recommend doing is using the ball you would normally play a round with and get some readings off that ball.

I read not long ago that Rory Mcilroy had a smash factor of 1.53 as well . If Willie can hit it 380 the way Rory does, I wouldn’t change a thing.

Larry. I’m 55 years old 280 is my distance not 380 Like Rory

Ball speed divided by club head speed is smash factor

I’m currently doing my university project on green-side bunker shots, I was wondering if you have any shot data for a short bunker shot or flop shot? Thanks.

Sorry but we do not have any official data we can share, but it would be interesting to see your final research :)

Blair, My assumption would be that the cleaner a ball is picked out of a bunker the more spin it will have and vice versa. The more sand you use to move the ball the less spin.

Do you have TrackMan data for AoA and DL for greenside bunker shots?

Sorry we do not have any official bunker shot data.

In looking at the tour pro stats for men – the max height reading for all clubs is about 30 plus or minus 2. I am trying to understand how/why are the heights the same for all clubs? My assumption would be the more lofted the club the greater the height! Is 30ish the optimum figure for best distance? Because in my last stats my longest 9.5 degree driver shot was max height of 56!

Is there any data available from the Senior tour?

We do not have any official charts for the Senior Tour. But you can login on mytrackman.com and use the combine section and filter, to show only Senior Tour players.

Thanks Christian!

what month/year is this data from?

Is there any data on typical club path for a tour pro?

Can you please post stats for average path, club face, and face to path numbers for PGA tour?

Could you please post average path, club face, and face to path numbers for several top Tour Players?

Before all the hype about hitting up on the ball came about, I hit down on a driver anywhere from -2 to -4 degrees and swung 1-2 degrees left.

Once I started to try and swing up on it. I lost direction big time. An easy swing for me is 112, swinging hard at it I can get it up to 123. Does Trackman recommend those that have higher swing speeds to hit down on it for straighter direction?

There is no physics logic backing up that hitting up on the ball will give a decrease in accuracy. However to go from hitting down to hitting up you have made some changes to your impact obviously. The way you made the changes could well be the problem as this could have affected your impact location, swing path, clubface and the way you release the club

Can pga tour players carry the ball 293 yards.

A Question: Were some data change on this site? I ask because I’m quite sure to have read other data for the men’s driver trajectory. Am I wrong or can someone confirm this?

kindly zorro

Is my impression right, that the data for the men driver were changed from

[Daten alt: 112mph 165mph 11,2° 2685 31y 39° 269y] to [Daten neu: 113mph 167mph 10,9° 2686 32y 38° 275y] ?

Why did TM do that?

For the tour pro stats – mainly carry distance, launch angle and spin rate for the driver, you have the averages, could you supply the max and min (filtered for outliers)? I am going to run an experiment with Trackman at my golf academy and need a starting range for each item. The tour max and min range is a starting point versus having to create this from scratch.

Anyone know where I can find raw data of clubhead speed? It is for a College project. Thanks!

You know what would be great to see – average miss from target – left and right – for each club. Of course short and long from target matter as well, but solid contact isn’t really my issue – left and right misses is my challenge

I’m about a half club off of PGA Tour average distance wise. Technically I’m a 1 handicap, but more like 4 or 5 when the tourney pressure is on. I know from playing with better players the difference between me and them is pretty much how much more accurate they are from a left and right perspective.

You can find all this info from Mark Broadie. He has tracked all the shots on the us tour for years and also written a book Every Shot Counts about it

I have been playing Golf for less than 19 months. I must admit I was damn tired of the same Golf Lesson producing varying results with inconsistent instruction(s) which seemed contradictory to the previous lesson. I take Golf perhaps a little more serious than others and my “approach” to this game may be viewed as extreme due to my focus on Fitness/Strength Training combined with my Yoga and Nutritional regimen.

That notwithstanding I would like to formally THANK the Trackman Developers and Support Staff for FINALLY producing a “Standardized” curriculum eliminating the traditional random quick fixes and circumventing the often inconsistent and contradictory methods being taught today.

I currently own a Trackman 4 and although I DO NOT wish to teach, I am Certified as an Operator and successful in obtaining my Professional Level 1 & 2 Certifications and shortly will be submitting my Thesis to be considered for review. These Certifications have greatly assisted me in understanding Flight/Ball dynamics and greatly assists my Coach and I in our 4-5 hour daily Putting-Wedge-Iron-Wood and Driver Sessions providing the data necessary to produce a more consistent and …. I have a hard time with this next word…… F U N game. (There I said the word “fun” in the same sentence as “Golf.” I’m so proud of myself!!!

Seriously, I simply CANNOT thank Nathan Meyer for coming to my hometown and demonstrating the enormous benefit(s) of purchasing the Trackman 4 product.

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Are there numbers posted for an average 5 HCP player or 10 HCP player similar to the charts above for the ave tour player?

What is the #1 PGA Tour player in “Carry Distance” average carry distance??

I understand this data is pretty old, released soon after the time when trackman first came out. I’m sure things have changed since then. Any update?

Actually, we haven’t seen any huge changes over the past years, it’s more about roundings. For example, Avg. Club Speed for a driver: 2014: 113.0 mph 2015: 113.3 mph 2016: 112.9 mph And it’s pretty much similar with the other numbers.

We do have a graphical updated version of the Tour Stats here.

Not really. Lee Westwood was interviewed recently and advised that apart from his driver he hits everything else almost the exact same he has his entire career.

I’m looking for PGA tour averages for dynamic loft for different clubs. Does anyone have this data to share? Thanks!

Are there tour averages for club path?

Are all these stats full swings? Example: Would the avg tour pro hit a 6-iron further, if he turns fully and tries to hit it as far as possible (with a natural movement like on a driver – not with an unnatural swing that creates most possible power, but result in very unconsistent ball flight)?

Currently I practice indoors because of the winter. I do my practice with Trackman and I carry my 7 iron about 177-180 yards and total distance of 188-192 yards with my TaylorMade PSi irons. Lots of my shots with the 7 iron has a smash factor of 1.50-1.51.

This is a example of one of my shots with 7 iron.

Club speed: 80.2 | AoA: 1.3 | Ball speed: 120.5 | Carry: 164 meter | Total: 176 meter | Dyn Loft: 19.6 | Smash Factor: 1.50

Is that normal number for a 7 iron with a that club speed?

Averages are useful, but knowing them would be more useful if we knew the median and mode, as well as the range.

Hello, Are there updated PGA Tour Trackman stats?

On Trackman this week using 7i I noticed the spin rate I had was well below that of a pro by nearly 3,000 rpm but similar club speed and attack angle. How can I get my spin rate up?

It can vary a lot due to the ball and clubs you are using. For example driving range balls are normally very hard and will have much lower spinrates than a quality ball like a Titleist pro v1. Modern day irons are also built to higher the lauch angle and lower the spinrate so that the average golfer will achieve more distance

It would be great to know the average loft for each club, especially the irons!. I think 21-24-27-30-34-38-42-46 (3-Pw) are reasonable specs. What do you guys think?

What loft are the irons? A modern 7i is now 30°

Is this still the original data from 2015 or has it been updated?

I’d be very curious to see if the how the average attack angle has changed over this time in the PGA.

Please update this data from over the years of more testing.

Do you have any numbers on tour averages numbers on dynamic loft and spin loft?

I am a 2 handicapper and I hit my driver 280 yards on an average. What is the attack angle with driver of the best players on the pga tour?

these yardages are no doubt well below reality.

6 iron only 183yds carry? Most high handicappers hit it equally far.

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