Floggers Rule?
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Oh no, not more stats! Sorry, but it's fun to see how flogging is the way to play the PGA Tour. (For you newcomers to this site's rantings, flogging is the bomb it out there and worry about the consequences later. You can read more about it here and here.)
Flogging has become such a big part of the sport that the graphics department here at gs.com developed a logo.
Anyhow, here is a list of the top 30 money winners, with their driving distance rank followed by their driving accuracy rank. I've included where Padraig Harrington would have ranked if he had enough rounds to qualify for the final statistic lists.
1 Tiger Woods 1 188
2 Vijay Singh 16 147
3 Phil Mickelson 26 161
4 Jim Furyk 170 31
5 David Toms 107 54
6 Kenny Perry 9 88
8 Retief Goosen 44 157
9 Bart Bryant 147 6
10 Sergio Garcia 10 153
11 Fred Funk 197 2
12 Justin Leonard 128 74
13 Davis Love III 8 165
14 P. Harrington 54* 188*
15 Adam Scott 23 175
16 Scott Verplank 59 9
17 Luke Donald 135 75
18 Sean O'Hair 23 127
19 Ben Crane 61 182
20 Chad Campbell 52 122
21 Tim Clark 140 58
22 Billy Mayfair 103 21
23 Stuart Appleby 19 155
24 Ted Purdy 45 88
25 Mark Calcavecchia 91 49
26 Olin Browne 173 4
27 Brandt Jobe 11 178
28 Tim Herron 65 122
29 Charles Howell III 56 170
30 Lucas Glover 12 138
Top 30 Average: 70th in Distance, 105th in Accuracy
Top 10 Average: 69th in Distance, 111th in Accuracy
