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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THE PLAYERS Championship - 2026

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
T1	Maverick McNealy	-5	F	1
T1	Lee Hodges	-5	F	1
T3	Justin Thomas	-4	F	1
T3	Russell Henley	-4	F	1
T3	Taylor Moore	-4	16	1
T3	Sahith Theegala	-4	14	1
T7	Tony Finau	-3	F	1
T7	Ludvig Åberg	-3	F	1
T7	Tommy Fleetwood	-3	F	1
T7	Viktor Hovland	-3	F	1
T7	Jacob Bridgeman	-3	15	1
T7	Sepp Straka	-3	14	1
T7	Xander Schauffele	-3	13	1
T7	Austin Smotherman	-3	10*	1
T15	Bud Cauley	-2	F	1
T15	Lucas Glover	-2	F	1
T15	Matt Fitzpatrick	-2	F	1
T15	Andrew Putnam	-2	F	1
T15	Patrick Rodgers	-2	17*	1
T15	J.J. Spaun	-2	14	1
T15	Hideki Matsuyama	-2	13	1
T15	Cam Young	-2	11*	1
T15	Matti Schmid	-2	10	1
T24	Max Homa	-1	F	1
T24	Danny Walker	-1	F	1
T24	Alex Noren	-1	F	1
T24	Ricky Castillo	-1	F	1
T24	Akshay Bhatia	-1	F	1
T24	Nicolai Højgaard	-1	18*	1
T24	Alex Smalley	-1	16*	1
T24	Ben Griffin	-1	15	1
T24	Adam Scott	-1	15	1
T24	Shane Lowry	-1	14	1
T24	Jordan Spieth	-1	14	1
T24	William Mouw	-1	12*	1
T24	Corey Conners	-1	10*	1
T37	Daniel Berger	E	F	1
T37	Brooks Koepka	E	F	1
T37	Scottie Scheffler	E	F	1
T37	Robert MacIntyre	E	F	1
T37	Michael Brennan	E	F	1
T37	Sam Stevens	E	F	1
T37	Michael Kim	E	17	1
T37	Ryo Hisatsune	E	16	1
T37	Chris Kirk	E	14*	1
T37	Wyndham Clark	E	13*	1
T37	Joe Highsmith	E	12*	1
T37	Chris Gotterup	E	12	1
T37	Justin Rose	E	12	1
T37	Nico Echavarria	E	10*	1
T37	Jason Day	E	10*	1
T37	Takumi Kanaya	E	10	1
T53	Mac Meissner	+1	F	1
T53	Eric Cole	+1	F	1
T53	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	+1	F	1
T53	Max Greyserman	+1	F	1
T53	Ryan Gerard	+1	F	1
T53	Patrick Cantlay	+1	F	1
T53	S.W. Kim	+1	F	1
T53	Harris English	+1	F	1
T53	Tom Hoge	+1	18*	1
T53	Keith Mitchell	+1	17	1
T53	Chad Ramey	+1	16*	1
T53	Rickie Fowler	+1	14	1
T53	Max McGreevy	+1	10	1
T53	Matthieu Pavon	+1	10*	1
T53	Zach Bauchou	+1	9	1
T68	Mark Hubbard	+2	F	1
T68	Mackenzie Hughes	+2	F	1
T68	Michael Thorbjornsen	+2	F	1
T68	Taylor Pendrith	+2	F	1
T68	Aldrich Potgieter	+2	F	1
T68	Haotong Li	+2	F	1
T68	Seamus Power	+2	F	1
T68	Nick Taylor	+2	13*	1
T68	Rory McIlroy	+2	13	1
T68	Min Woo Lee	+2	12	1
T68	Davis Thompson	+2	11*	1
T68	Brian Campbell	+2	11	1
T68	Aaron Rai	+2	11	1
T68	Sudarshan Yellamaraju	+2	9	1
T82	Rasmus Højgaard	+3	F	1
T82	Kristoffer Reitan	+3	F	1
T82	Gary Woodland	+3	F	1
T82	Jhonattan Vegas	+3	F	1
T82	Matt McCarty	+3	F	1
T82	Brian Harman	+3	F	1
T82	Jake Knapp	+3	F	1
T82	Sungjae Im	+3	F	1
T82	Kevin Roy	+3	17*	1
T82	Marco Penge	+3	17*	1
T82	Joel Dahmen	+3	16	1
T82	Kurt Kitayama	+3	15*	1
T82	Andrew Novak	+3	13*	1
T82	Steven Fisk	+3	12*	1
T82	Sam Burns	+3	11*	1
T82	Karl Vilips	+3	11	1
T98	Garrick Higgo	+4	F	1
T98	J.T. Poston	+4	F	1
T98	Zecheng Dou	+4	F	1
T98	Johnny Keefer	+4	F	1
T98	Denny McCarthy	+4	18*	1
T98	Harry Hall	+4	15*	1
T98	Stephan Jaeger	+4	15*	1
T98	David Ford	+4	14*	1
T98	S.H. Kim	+4	10*	1
T98	A.J. Ewart	+4	9	1
T108	Rico Hoey	+5	F	1
T108	Vince Whaley	+5	F	1
T108	Cam Davis	+5	F	1
T108	Adam Schenk	+5	F	1
T108	Pi Coody	+5	16*	1
T113	Sami Valimaki	+6	F	1
T113	Erik van Rooyen	+6	17	1
T113	Keegan Bradley	+6	14*	1
T116	Thorbjørn Olesen	+7	F	1
T116	Jordan Smith	+7	F	1
T118	Chandler Phillips	+8	F	1
T118	Kevin Yu	+8	F	1
T118	Patton Kizzire	+8	F	1
T121	Emiliano Grillo	+12	F	1
T121	Davis Riley	+12	F	1
WD	Collin Morikawa	-	-

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PlayersTeams

Pos	Player	Tot	Rnd
T1	Jon Rahm	-4	2
T1	Richard T. Lee	-4	2
T1	Lee Westwood	-4	2
T1	Bryson DeChambeau	-4	2
T5	Louis Oosthuizen	-3	2
T5	Tyrrell Hatton	-3	2
T5	Charles Howell III	-3	2
T5	Cameron Tringale	-3	2
T5	Marc Leishman	-3	2
T5	Matthew Wolff	-3	2
T5	Thomas Detry	-3	2
T12	Carlos Ortiz	-2	2
T12	Cameron Smith	-2	2
T12	Tom McKibbin	-2	2
T12	Anthony Kim	-2	2
T12	Adrian Meronk	-2	2
T12	Joaquin Niemann	-2	2
T12	Caleb Surratt	-2	2
T12	Scott Vincent	-2	2
T12	Victor Perez	-2	2
T12	Graeme McDowell	-2	2
T22	Paul Casey	-1	2
T22	Bjorn Hellgren	-1	2
T22	Brendan Steele	-1	2
T22	Branden Grace	-1	2
T22	Talor Gooch	-1	2
T27	Harold Varner III	E	2
T27	Dustin Johnson	E	2
T27	Yosuke Asaji	E	2
T27	Danny Lee	E	2
T31	Thomas Pieters	+1	2
T31	Miguel Tabuena	+1	2
T31	Wade Ormsby	+1	2
T31	Charl Schwartzel	+1	2
T31	Richard Bland	+1	2
T31	Peter Uihlein	+1	2
T31	Dean Burmester	+1	2
T31	Sergio Garcia	+1	2
T39	David Puig	+2	2
T39	Younghan Song	+2	2
T39	Josele Ballester	+2	2
T39	Elvis Smylie	+2	2
T39	Sebastian Muñoz	+2	2
T39	Lucas Herbert	+2	2
T45	Laurie Canter	+3	2
T45	Byeong Hun An	+3	2
T45	Ben Campbell	+3	2
T45	Michael La Sasso	+3	2
T45	Anirban Lahiri	+3	2
T45	Bubba Watson	+3	2
T45	Ian Poulter	+3	2
T45	Jason Kokrak	+3	2
T53	Abraham Ancer	+5	2
T53	Luis Masaveu	+5	2
T55	Martin Kaymer	+7	2
T55	Sam Horsfield	+7	2
57	Minkyu Kim	+9	2

Driving distances

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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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