Thanks for playing along. I think stats are interesting.
1) Ernie Els is second to Tiger this season in scoring average, though he is a full 1 1/2 strokes behind. Lefty is fifth, Vijay eighth.
2) Furyk uses the Srixon ball. And he is 3rd in driving accuracy percentage with that swing of his! Go figure.
3) Rory Sabbatini has missed 546 greens in regulation in 81 rounds. That means he misses nearly 7 greens per round. Good news for him is that he makes par or better 64% of the time. Almost as good as bonds. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] BTW Daly is 195th on this list for 2007 with a 49% conversion rate.
4) Oops. Brett Wetterich has the two longest drives on tour this year. 437 and 435. Bubba Watson's longest was 402.
5) Woods has made $76 million on the PGA TOUR. Seems like a lot of dough until you read things like this
most overpayed baseball players and this
most overpayed baseball players part deux.
6) Vijay has $54, Lefty $45, Furyk $35.
7) Aaron Baddeley averaged 27.96 putts in 2006 and 27.88 in 2003. In those years he was 55th and 73rd on the money list. I thought it was drive for show, putt for dough?
8) Par-5s? Goosen led this stat in 2004 converting 107 of 188. Mickelson is leading it in 2007 with 120 of 216. 2000 was Tiger's best year with 164 of 265 or 62%.
9) Vijay was best of these three from the sand, but he was only 53rd on the list. Woods is 67th. Phil is 83rd.
10) Firestone. Nice work. Thick rough helped make the course tougher than it had been in years and only one player broke par for the week. Tiger, of course.