Driving distances

November 3rd, 2016

Justin Thomas: Ground Force

Australian Golf Digest, Driving, driving distances, Instruction, Justin Thomas, Ron Kaspriske

October 14th, 2016

Driving distances on the US PGA Tour in 2015/16 aren’t as high as we feared

With Joe Miller’s mind-boggling distances in winning the World Long Drive Championship on Wednesday, it may make some wonder just what his mile-long hitting spree says about the state of driving distance in the game today.

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Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Austin Smotherman	-9	F	1
2	Nico Echavarria	-8	F	1
T3	Taylor Moore	-4	F	1
T3	Jackson Suber	-4	F	1
T3	Kristoffer Reitan	-4	13	1
T6	Hank Lebioda	-3	F	1
T6	Beau Hossler	-3	F	1
T6	Joel Dahmen	-3	F	1
T6	Max McGreevy	-3	F	1
T6	Aaron Rai	-3	F	1
T6	Kevin Yu	-3	F	1
T6	Keith Mitchell	-3	F	1
T6	Chad Ramey	-3	F	1
T6	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	-3	F	1
T6	Kevin Roy	-3	16	1
T6	Matti Schmid	-3	15*	1
T6	Michael Brennan	-3	15	1
T6	Chan Kim	-3	10*	1
T19	Lee Hodges	-2	F	1
T19	Kevin Streelman	-2	F	1
T19	Billy Horschel	-2	F	1
T19	Steven Fisk	-2	F	1
T19	Karl Vilips	-2	F	1
T19	Adrien Saddier	-2	F	1
T19	Jimmy Stanger	-2	F	1
T19	Ricky Castillo	-2	F	1
T19	Chandler Blanchet	-2	F	1
T19	Adam Schenk	-2	14*	1
T19	William Mouw	-2	14*	1
T19	Rasmus Højgaard	-2	13	1
T19	Pontus Nyholm	-2	11*	1
T19	Luke Clanton	-2	11	1
T19	Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen	-2	10	1
T34	Camilo Villegas	-1	F	1
T34	Vince Whaley	-1	F	1
T34	Shane Lowry	-1	F	1
T34	Davis Thompson	-1	F	1
T34	Joe Highsmith	-1	F	1
T34	Chris Kirk	-1	F	1
T34	Nicolai Højgaard	-1	F	1
T34	Johnny Keefer	-1	F	1
T34	Neal Shipley	-1	F	1
T34	Zach Bauchou	-1	F	1
T34	Mark Hubbard	-1	17	1
T34	Car Young	-1	17*	1
T34	David Lipsky	-1	16	1
T34	Daniel Berger	-1	15	1
T34	Michael Thorbjornsen	-1	13	1
T34	Thorbjørn Olesen	-1	12*	1
T34	Patton Kizzire	-1	12	1
T34	Seamus Power	-1	11*	1
T34	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-1	11*	1
T34	Haotong Li	-1	12	1
T34	Dan Brown	-1	11*	1
T34	Jesper Svensson	-1	11	1
T34	Kensei Hirata	-1	11	1
T34	John VanDerLaan	-1	10*	1
T34	Zecheng Dou	-1	9*	1
T59	Austin Eckroat	E	F	1
T59	Danny Willett	E	F	1
T59	Matthieu Pavon	E	F	1
T59	Adam Hadwin	E	F	1
T59	Garrick Higgo	E	F	1
T59	Stephan Jaeger	E	F	1
T59	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	E	F	1
T59	Jordan Smith	E	F	1
T59	Eric Cole	E	17	1
T59	Gary Woodland	E	16	1
T59	Lanto Griffin	E	16*	1
T59	Aaron Wise	E	14*	1
T59	Brooks Koepka	E	14	1
T59	Ben Silverman	E	14	1
T59	Cam Davis	E	13*	1
T59	Matt Kuchar	E	13*	1
T59	Chandler Phillips	E	12*	1
T59	Davis Chatfield	E	12	1
T59	A.J. Ewart	E	10	1
T59	John Parry	E	10*	1
T59	Gordon Sargent	E	10*	1
T80	Doug Ghim	+1	F	1
T80	Adam Svensson	+1	F	1
T80	Paul Waring	+1	F	1
T80	Erik van Rooyen	+1	17*	1
T80	Emiliano Grillo	+1	16	1
T80	Max Homa	+1	15	1
T80	Frankie Capan III	+1	10*	1
T87	Matt Wallace	+2	F	1
T87	Mac Meissner	+2	F	1
T87	Webb Simpson	+2	F	1
T87	Keita Nakajima	+2	F	1
T87	Patrick Fishburn	+2	F	1
T87	Alex Smalley	+2	17	1
T87	Brandt Snedeker	+2	16	1
T87	Brice Garnett	+2	16*	1
T87	Dylan Wu	+2	15*	1
T87	Takumi Kanaya	+2	15*	1
T87	Ryan Gerard	+2	15	1
T87	Andrew Putnam	+2	12	1
T87	Charley Hoffman	+2	11*	1
T87	Kris Ventura	+2	11*	1
T87	Justin Hicks	+2	9*	1
T102	Harry Higgs	+3	F	1
T102	Sam Ryder	+3	F	1
T102	Davis Riley	+3	F	1
T102	Nick Dunlap	+3	F	1
T102	S.H. Kim	+3	F	1
T102	Jeffrey Kang	+3	F	1
T102	Peter Malnati	+3	16*	1
T102	Danny Walker	+3	16	1
T102	Marcelo Rozo	+3	11	1
T102	Alejandro Tosti	+3	10*	1
T102	Isaiah Salinda	+3	10	1
T113	K.H. Lee	+4	F	1
T113	Christo Lamprecht	+4	F	1
T113	Blades Brown	+4	F	1
T113	Justin Lower	+4	17*	1
T113	Sami Valimaki	+4	13*	1
T113	Tom Kim	+4	13	1
T113	Mackenzie Hughes	+4	12*	1
T113	David Ford	+4	9*	1
T121	Brendon Todd	+6	F	1
T121	Rafael Campos	+6	F	1
123	Rico Hoey	+7	F	1

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PlayersTeams

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Anthony Kim	-23	18	4
2	Jon Rahm	-20	18	4
T3	Bryson DeChambeau	-17	18	4
T3	Tyrrell Hatton	-17	18	4
T3	Peter Uihlein	-17	18	4
T6	Lucas Herbert	-16	18	4
T6	Dean Burmester	-16	18	4
T8	Cameron Smith	-15	18	4
T8	Sebastian Muñoz	-15	18	4
T8	Branden Grace	-15	18	4
T8	Marc Leishman	-15	18	4
T12	Abraham Ancer	-14	18	4
T12	Joaquin Niemann	-14	18	4
T14	Matthew Wolff	-13	18	4
T14	Graeme McDowell	-13	18	4
T14	Brendan Steele	-13	18	4
T17	Caleb Surratt	-12	18	4
T17	Jason Kokrak	-12	18	4
T17	Dustin Johnson	-12	18	4
T17	Charl Schwartzel	-12	18	4
T17	Ben Campbell	-12	18	4
T17	Talor Gooch	-12	18	4
23	Richard Bland	-11	18	4
T24	Byeong Hun An	-10	18	4
T24	Scott Vincent	-10	18	4
T24	Yosuke Asaji	-10	18	4
T27	Ian Poulter	-9	18	4
T27	Thomas Pieters	-9	18	4
T27	Elvis Smylie	-9	18	4
T27	Victor Perez	-9	18	4
31	Thomas Detry	-8	18	4
T32	Danny Lee	-7	18	4
T32	Minkyu Kim	-7	18	4
T32	Josele Ballester	-7	18	4
T32	Michael La Sasso	-7	18	4
T32	Charles Howell III	-7	18	4
T37	Louis Oosthuizen	-6	18	4
T37	Sergio Garcia	-6	18	4
T37	Bubba Watson	-6	18	4
T37	Wade Ormsby	-6	18	4
T37	Richard T. Lee	-6	18	4
T42	Adrian Meronk	-5	18	4
T42	Carlos Ortiz	-5	18	4
T44	Younghan Song	-4	18	4
T44	Harold Varner III	-4	18	4
T44	Tom McKibbin	-4	18	4
T44	Miguel Tabuena	-4	18	4
T44	Ben Schmidt	-4	18	4
T44	Luis Masaveu	-4	18	4
50	Anirban Lahiri	-3	18	4
T51	David Puig	-2	18	4
T51	John Catlin	-2	18	4
53	Laurie Canter	E	18	4
T54	Bjorn Hellgren	+2	18	4
T54	Paul Casey	+2	18	4
56	Sam Horsfield	+3	18	4
57	Cameron Tringale	+4	18	4

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Driving distances on the US PGA Tour in 2015/16 aren’t as high as we feared

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Pos	Team	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	RIPPER GC	-55	18	4
2	LEGION XIII	-53	18	4
3	4ACES GC	-52	18	4
4	SOUTHERN GUARDS GC	-49	18	4
T5	TORQUE GC	-48	18	4
T5	RANGEGOATS GC	-48	18	4
7	SMASH GC	-41	18	4
8	KOREAN GOLF CLUB	-28	18	4
9	CLEEKS GOLF CLUB	-27	18	4
10	CRUSHERS GC	-25	18	4
11	HYFLYERS GC	-22	18	4
12	FIREBALLS GC	-19	18	4
13	MAJESTICKS GC	-10	18	4