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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AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am - 2026

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Ryo Hisatsune	-10	-	2
T2	Sam Burns	-9	-	2
T2	Keegan Bradley	-9	-	2
T4	Tony Finau	-8	1	2
T4	Akshay Bhatia	-8	1*	2
T4	Patrick Rodgers	-8	1	2
T4	Chris Gotterup	-8	-	2
T8	Rickie Fowler	-7	1	2
T8	Nick Taylor	-7	-	2
T8	Tom Hoge	-7	-	2
T8	Andrew Novak	-7	-	2
T12	Mackenzie Hughes	-6	2	2
T12	Matt Fitzpatrick	-6	1	2
T12	Russell Henley	-6	-	2
T12	Jake Knapp	-6	-	2
T12	Jordan Spieth	-6	-	2
T12	Sepp Straka	-6	-	2
T12	Patrick Cantlay	-6	-	2
T19	Denny McCarthy	-5	3*	2
T19	Min Woo Lee	-5	-	2
T19	S.W. Kim	-5	-	2
T19	Sami Valimaki	-5	-	2
T19	Tommy Fleetwood	-5	-	2
T19	Maverick McNealy	-5	-	2
T19	Shane Lowry	-5	-	2
T19	Jacob Bridgeman	-5	-	2
T19	Hideki Matsuyama	-5	-	2
T19	J.T. Poston	-5	-	2
T29	Michael Thorbjornsen	-4	2*	2
T29	Max Greyserman	-4	2	2
T29	Cam Young	-4	2*	2
T29	Brian Harman	-4	1	2
T29	Alex Smalley	-4	-	2
T29	Alex Noren	-4	-	2
T29	Michael Kim	-4	-	2
T29	Rory McIlroy	-4	-	2
T29	Harry Hall	-4	-	2
T29	Bud Cauley	-4	-	2
T39	Billy Horschel	-3	2	2
T39	Justin Rose	-3	1	2
T39	Pi Coody	-3	-	2
T39	Emiliano Grillo	-3	-	2
T39	Chris Kirk	-3	-	2
T39	Xander Schauffele	-3	-	2
T39	Max McGreevy	-3	-	2
T39	Sam Stevens	-3	-	2
T39	Wyndham Clark	-3	-	2
T39	Collin Morikawa	-3	-	2
T49	Nico Echavarria	-2	3*	2
T49	Stephan Jaeger	-2	3*	2
T49	Viktor Hovland	-2	1*	2
T49	J.J. Spaun	-2	-	2
T49	Corey Conners	-2	-	2
T49	Steven Fisk	-2	-	2
T49	Ben Griffin	-2	-	2
T56	Jason Day	-1	1*	2
T56	Robert MacIntyre	-1	-	2
T56	Sahith Theegala	-1	-	2
T56	Taylor Pendrith	-1	-	2
T56	Garrick Higgo	-1	-	2
T56	Kevin Yu	-1	-	2
T62	Harris English	E	1*	2
T62	Jhonattan Vegas	E	-	2
T62	Ryan Fox	E	-	2
T62	Kurt Kitayama	E	-	2
T62	Matti Schmid	E	-	2
T62	Scottie Scheffler	E	-	2
T62	Adam Schenk	E	-	2
T62	Ryan Gerard	E	-	2
T70	Keith Mitchell	+1	2	2
T70	Marco Penge	+1	-	2
T70	Daniel Berger	+1	-	2
T73	Lucas Glover	+2	1*	2
T73	Joe Highsmith	+2	-	2
T73	Aldrich Potgieter	+2	-	2
T73	Rico Hoey	+2	-	2
T77	Matt McCarty	+3	-	2
T77	Ludvig Åberg	+3	-	2
79	Aaron Rai	+5	-	2
80	Brian Campbell	+6	-	2

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Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Jon Rahm	-13	18	2
2	Ben Campbell	-12	18	2
3	Bryson DeChambeau	-11	18	2
4	Anthony Kim	-10	18	2
T5	Talor Gooch	-9	18	2
T5	Branden Grace	-9	18	2
T7	Peter Uihlein	-8	18	2
T7	Lucas Herbert	-8	18	2
T7	Sebastian Muñoz	-8	18	2
10	Joaquin Niemann	-7	18	2
T11	Tyrrell Hatton	-6	18	2
T11	Scott Vincent	-6	18	2
T11	Thomas Detry	-6	18	2
T11	Abraham Ancer	-6	18	2
T11	Marc Leishman	-6	18	2
T16	Brendan Steele	-5	18	2
T16	Yosuke Asaji	-5	18	2
T16	Cameron Smith	-5	18	2
T16	Laurie Canter	-5	18	2
T16	Charles Howell III	-5	18	2
T16	John Catlin	-5	18	2
T16	Jason Kokrak	-5	18	2
T16	Charl Schwartzel	-5	18	2
T16	Dustin Johnson	-5	18	2
T25	Wade Ormsby	-4	18	2
T25	Dean Burmester	-4	18	2
T25	Miguel Tabuena	-4	18	2
T25	Victor Perez	-4	18	2
T25	Ben Schmidt	-4	18	2
T25	Matthew Wolff	-4	18	2
T25	Richard T. Lee	-4	18	2
T25	Graeme McDowell	-4	18	2
T33	Ian Poulter	-3	18	2
T33	Elvis Smylie	-3	18	2
T33	Byeong Hun An	-3	18	2
T33	Josele Ballester	-3	18	2
T37	Thomas Pieters	-2	18	2
T37	Richard Bland	-2	18	2
T37	Minkyu Kim	-2	18	2
T37	Tom McKibbin	-2	18	2
T41	Sergio Garcia	-1	18	2
T41	Caleb Surratt	-1	18	2
T41	Bjorn Hellgren	-1	18	2
T41	Luis Masaveu	-1	18	2
T41	David Puig	-1	18	2
T41	Carlos Ortiz	-1	18	2
T41	Danny Lee	-1	18	2
T41	Younghan Song	-1	18	2
T49	Michael La Sasso	E	18	2
T49	Adrian Meronk	E	18	2
T51	Bubba Watson	+1	18	2
T51	Paul Casey	+1	18	2
T51	Louis Oosthuizen	+1	18	2
54	Harold Varner III	+2	18	2
55	Cameron Tringale	+3	18	2
56	Anirban Lahiri	+4	18	2
57	Sam Horsfield	+6	18	2

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Justin Thomas: Ground Force

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
T1	RANGEGOATS GC	-23	18	2
T1	4ACES GC	-23	18	2
T3	LEGION XIII	-22	18	2
T3	RIPPER GC	-22	18	2
T3	TORQUE GC	-22	18	2
6	SOUTHERN GUARDS GC	-17	18	2
7	SMASH GC	-16	18	2
T8	CLEEKS GOLF CLUB	-11	18	2
T8	CRUSHERS GC	-11	18	2
10	KOREAN GOLF CLUB	-7	18	2
T11	HYFLYERS GC	-6	18	2
T11	MAJESTICKS GC	-6	18	2
T11	FIREBALLS GC	-6	18	2