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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.

Non-member earnings

Brooks Koepka celebrates after winning the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club. (Photo: Adam Cairns-USA TODAY Sports)

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.

Scottie Scheffler holds up the 2023 Players Championship trophy at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. (Photo: Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union)

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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PGA Tour Driving Accuracy 2023: Top 10 straightest hitters and their drivers

Who are the straightest hitters off the tee on the PGA Tour in 2023?

Interested to learn who the top 10 straightest hitters are on the PGA Tour right now? Well you've arrived at the right place as we crunch the stats and check out the drivers that each of them are using to split fairways with a great deal of regularity in 2023. 

Of the star names, Tom Kim and Collin Morikawa feature prominently, but they don't quite make top spot which is taken by a four-time winner.

Some of the world's best players rank well down the board though. 

World No.1 Jon Rahm is down in 79th , while Rory McIlroy is in a lowly 167th . 

Scottie Scheffler , who is sandwiched between them at World No.2 right now, is performing much better in 23rd position. 

McIlroy, however, is running away with things when it comes to driving distance with his TaylorMade Stealth 2 Plus driver .

Many of the drivers used by those in the Top 10 for driving accuracy feature heavily in our Best Golf Drivers guide for 2023.

For reference to the below figures, the current PGA Tour average for driving accuracy is 58.67% . 

Right, let's start at #10 and work our way down to #1: 

PGA TOUR DRIVING ACCURACY LEADERS: 2023 (as of April 18, 2023) 

#10 - Chez Reavie

Driving Accuracy: 67.43% Fairways Hit: 414 Possible Fairways: 614 Driver Used: Callaway Paradym Triple Diamond Driver

#9 - Aaron Rai

Driving Accuracy: 67.49% Fairways Hit: 571 Possible Fairways: 846 Driver Used:  TaylorMade M6 Driver

#8 - Zach Johnson

Driving Accuracy: 67.67% Fairways Hit: 337 Possible Fairways: 498 Driver Used:  PXG 0811 XF Gen4 Driver

#7 - Ryan Moore

Driving Accuracy: 67.97% Fairways Hit: 312 Possible Fairways: 459 Driver Used: Cobra AeroJet LS Driver

#6 - Ryan Armour

Driving Accuracy: 68.45% Fairways Hit: 473 Possible Fairways: 691 Driver Used:  PING G425 LST Driver

#5 - Brian Harman

Driving Accuracy: 68.94% Fairways Hit: 455 Possible Fairways: 660 Driver Used: Titleist TSi2 Driver

#4 - Satoshi Kodaira

Driving Accuracy: 69.72% Fairways Hit: 221 Possible Fairways: 317 Driver Used:  Titleist TSR2 Driver

#3 - Collin Morikawa

Driving Accuracy: 70.54% Fairways Hit: 395 Possible Fairways: 560 Driver Used:  TaylorMade Stealth 2 Plus Driver

#2 - Tom Kim

Driving Accuracy: 71.43% Fairways Hit: 440 Possible Fairways: 616 Driver Used:  Titleist TSR3 Driver

#1 - Russell Henley

Driving Accuracy: 74.20% Fairways Hit: 417 Possible Fairways: 562 Driver Used: Titleist TSi3 Driver

What do you consider to be the most forgiving driver of 2023? Share your thoughts and comments over on the GolfMagic social media channels. 

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Virginia’s ben james keeps rolling, this time wins valero to earn pga tour start.

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Last summer, Ben James was experiencing some of his worst golf.

Now, he’s playing some of his best.

James won the Valero Texas Collegiate on Monday, firing a closing 6-under 66 at TPC San Antonio to tie Auburn sophomore Josiah Gilbert at 12 under. James then topped Gilbert in a playoff to earn an exemption into next year’s Valero Texas Open.

James began the final round trailing Gilbert by five shots. He bogeyed his first hole of the day, too. But James then rattled off seven birdies in his last 13 holes, including at the par-5 18th, where James hit 3-wood from 260 yards to 10 feet and two-putted to force extra holes.

In the playoff, James hit an even better shot – 3-wood from 267 yards to 7 feet – and his second two-putt at the last sealed his spot in the April 3-6 Tour event at the same course. James already owns six Tour starts to date, including last week’s Procore Championship and this year’s Rocket Mortgage Classic, where he made his first cut (T-44).

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James has been on a tear since the end of last summer. After winning five times as a freshman, James went through a slump that lasted several months, and he hit rock bottom at last year’s Western Amateur, where he tied for 142nd. After that finish, James retreated to a log cabin in Linville, North Carolina, a small resort community in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He was driving it unusually poor and putting more pressure on his shaky putting, but most importantly, he had lost some joy.

“Just wanted to isolate myself,” James said, “and just kind of worked on my game in peace, no one to bother me.”

Since that escape, James has dominated. He reached the quarterfinals at last year’s U.S. Amateur at Cherry Hills before helping the U.S. win the Walker Cup in September and winning the South Beach International Amateur last December. During his sophomore season for the Cavaliers, he didn’t finish worse than T-16, and he capped the campaign with a runner-up at the NCAA Championship. He then qualified for the U.S. Open, made the final eight of the Western Amateur, reached match play at the U.S. Amateur and then opened his junior year with a third-place showing at the Inverness Intercollegiate.

James has an outside shot at a PGA Tour card next summer, too, as he currently sits at 11 PGA Tour University Accelerated points. He gets a point for every made cut on Tour, and an additional point for a Tour top-10. He also can earn three points apiece for winning the NCAA individual title, Haskins Award (national college player of the year, voted on by players and coaches), Nicklaus Award (national college player of the year, voted on by a committee) and Hogan Award (national amateur player of the year, includes all results and voted on by a committee).

Virginia, which captured the team title at Inverness, ended up T-3 with Auburn, 11 shots back of Oklahoma, which beat runner-up Ole Miss by six shots.