Here are a collection of the best golf stats from the last decade in the game.
Best Golf Stats From The Decade
The decade has seen some incredible golf take place and with the growth in sports statistics, pretty much everything in the game is tracked and logged away for future use and for the history books. Here we have taken a look at some of the best of the lot.
PGA Tour
- 12 million shots were hit between 2010 and 2019 on the PGA Tour.
- There were 486 events during that time which resulted in 186 different winners.
- Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson led the way winning 18 times apiece.
- Matt Kuchar had the best cumulative score to par during the decade. He finished 1,082 under par.
- Eight players won at least 10 times in the 2010s: Johnson, McIlroy (18), Jason Day (12), Bubba Watson (12), Jordan Spieth (11), Justin Thomas (11), Tiger Woods (11) and Justin Rose (10).
Strokes Gained became a growing statistic in the game of golf and Rory McIlroy led a couple of the sections as shown below.
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- Rory was the only player to have five multiple win seasons. Johnson and Watson had 4, Spieth and Day had 3.
- There was only one PGA Tour winner over the age of 50, and that was Davis Love III at the 2015 Wyndham Championship
Speaking of which, the breakdown of winners by age is below…
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- The largest margin of victory during the decade was nine shots. Jimmy Walker was victorious at the 2015 Sony Open in Hawaii.
- 15 players qualified for the Fedex Cup Playoffs every year of the decade: Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Rose, Brandt Snedeker, Kuchar, Rickie Fowler, Day, Marc Leishman, Watson, Charley Hoffman, Adam Scott, Ryan Moore, Webb Simpson, Charles Howell III and Kevin Streelman.
- Dustin Johnson is also the only player to qualify for the Tour Championship in every year of the decade.
- 317 aces were made during the decade by 212 different players. Scott Brown and Shawn Stefani had five each.
- The longest drive of the decade was 463 yards hit by Dustin Johnson. The longest putt was 103-feet by Angel Cabrera.
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