Tom Brady has -
- Lost several golf balls
- Had inexplicable hole-out from fairway
- Said on camera "take a suck on that, Chuck"
- Split his pants
We're still on the front nine
Most PGA Tour wins by players currently under age 45:
Tiger overall - 79
Tiger WGCs - 18
Dustin Johnson - 17
Tiger in Florida - 16
Tiger majors - 14
Tiger in California - 14
Rory McIlroy - 13
Tiger in Ohio -13
Adam Scott - 13
Zach Johnson - 12
#TigerReturns
13 weeks ago, the
@PGATOUR
was one of the first pro sports leagues to return.
I know this is Twitter and everything sucks according to everyone, but the job the Tour did these last three months to put this together has been pretty incredible.
A sincere thank you to them.
If Kokrak wins, Spieth will be 10-for-20 in his PGA Tour career converting 54-hole leads.
JT, DJ, Rory all between 50-60% converting last 10 years.
Tour average last 10 seasons when leading/co-leading is just 35%.
Tiger - 55-for-59 - is totally insane
Tiger Woods in 2001:
1st win of season - Bay Hill
2nd - Players
3rd - Masters
Scottie Scheffler in 2024:
1st win of season - Bay Hill
2nd - Players
3rd…
One of the surreal, forever links between Tiger and Jack
Jack's last U.S. Open: 2000
Tiger won
Jack's last PGA: 2000
Tiger won
Jack's last Masters: 2005
Tiger won
Jack's last Open Championship: 2005
Tiger won
Bubba Watson
2012: won Masters
2013: made 10 on 12th hole on Sunday
2014 won Masters
Tiger Woods
2019: won Masters
2020: made 10 on 12th hole on Sunday
2021: ?
It's science?
As far back as the stats go, Rory McIlroy is the only player to hold the 54-hole lead at a major, hit every green in regulation in the final round and not win.
72 players, including Tiger, had 100 or more rounds in majors from 1997 through 2013. Best cumulative score to par in that group:
Tiger Woods: -126
Steve Flesch: +125
Phil Mickelson: +128
A 251-stroke difference over 2nd-best
Scottie Scheffler finished the 2022-23 PGA Tour season with an adjusted scoring average of 68.63, the 7th-best of all time.
Tiger Woods has spots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 on that list (1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2009).
This is Dustin Johnson's 106th career week as the no. 1 ranked player in the OWGR, tying Rory McIlroy for 3rd-most all-time.
If DJ holds the number one spot every week until Christmas 2031, he'll tie Tiger Woods' record of 683 weeks.
The longest active cuts made streak - 20 by Jordan Spieth - is likely to end this afternoon at Torrey Pines.
Spieth was just 122 away from tying Tiger's record
Best score to par in majors, 1997-2009 (min. 70 rounds)
Tiger Woods, -134
Phil Mickelson, +99
Ernie Els, +118
Phil was the only player within 250 strokes of Woods.
@JustinRayGolf
Curious what the hottest heater of all time is. Could you quantify that with avg world ranking points per start over a period of time? If so, would love to know the highest over 5 or 10 events. Tiger, J Day, DJ, and Scottie has to be up there now
Best score to par in majors, 1997-2009 (min. 70 rounds)
Tiger Woods, -134
Phil Mickelson, +99
Ernie Els, +118
Phil was the only player within 250 strokes of Woods.
Ludvig Åberg did not have a single official 3-putt in his Masters debut.
He's the first player in 6 years to go 72 holes and not have an official 3-putt in his first Masters. Tony Finau and Doug Ghim last did it, in 2018.
Doing some PGA Champ prep work and revisited this one...
There were 83 players with 75 or more rounds played in majors from 1997 through 2009. Best cumulative scores to par in that span:
Tiger Woods -134
Phil Mickelson +99 (233-shot difference)
Ernie Els +118
Steve Flesch +119
Michael Block this week:
- 1st ace by club pro at PGA since 1996
- Best 36 and 54 hole position by club pro since 1988
- Best finish by club pro at PGA since 1986
What a performance.
Charley Hoffman has been ranked in the top-20 of the OWGR for a total of 1 week in his career. He has never finished better than 8th in a major championship. He has $32.1M in official PGA Tour earnings.
Everyone eats on the par 5s at Augusta, but it's a truly staggering disparity for Rory.
In his career, he's 94-under on the par 5s at
#TheMasters
and +67 on par 3s and 4s.
In the last 60 years, there are 3 instances of a player winning 5 (or more) PGA Tour starts in a row.
They belong to: Tiger Woods (7), Tiger Woods (6) and Tiger Woods (5).
Crazy Tiger stat of the week
Bryson won his 6th PGA Tour event in his 99th start as a pro, an impressive clip to begin his career.
Tiger won 27 (!!) of his first 99 PGA Tour starts after turning pro.
Scottie Scheffler and Vijay Singh have hit the same number of greens in regulation through three rounds this week and Scheffler leads the Tournament. Just as everyone expected.
Drew Brees' 1st start against Tom Brady: Sept. 29, 2002. The defending Masters champion was Tiger Woods.
18 years later, I'm watching Brees vs Brady. The defending Masters champion is Tiger Woods.
Americans currently hold all 4 major championship titles. The last time U.S. golf held all 4 major titles and The Players' Championship simultaneously was in 2000-01, when Tiger Woods won all five of those tournaments in a row.
I usually post these (while adding a few new ones) every year on Tiger Woods' birthday, but who wants to wait that long when we're going to see him back on the course Thursday?
Here's a thread of some of the most insane Tiger on-course stats in his historic career --
Akshay Bhatia wins the Barracuda Championship, his first career PGA Tour win.
This is the first time in PGA Tour history that two left-handed players won on the same day.
Both men in the final pairing are major champions and 27 years old.
The last time both members of a final pairing on Masters Sunday were both major winners in their 20s?
1965 - Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player
.
@collin_morikawa
now has 2 wins and just 1 missed cut on the PGA Tour since turning pro.
He's the first player since
@TigerWoods
in 1996 to win twice on Tour before missing 2 cuts as a professional.
Tiger won 43 times before his 2nd missed cut as a pro.
In 2023 Ludvig Aberg...
- Turned pro
- Won on the DP World Tour
- Won on the PGA Tour
Going back 30 years I have not found another example of a player doing all 3 of those in the same year.
Tyrell Hatton's round today was the 296th on the PGA Tour this season without a birdie. It's the only one of those rounds to also result in a score in the 60s.
He made 3 eagles today.
How tough was it to catch Tiger as world number 1?
Scottie Scheffler's OWGR points average this week is 10.06, putting him comfortably in the no. 1 spot.
Phil Mickelson had 77 different weeks from 2000-2008 where his average points number was higher than Scottie's is this week.
Last 2
@PGAChampionship
winners
2020: Collin Morikawa, age 23, wins in his 2nd major start
2021: Phil Mickelson, age 50, wins in his 112th major start
I love this sport
Tournament win percentage, the last 15 seasons, on the PGA Tour by players who led outright after -
Round 1: 15.0%
Round 2: 28.3%
Round 3: 41.3%
Tiger Woods' win percentage in his PGA Tour career when leading outright after -
Round 1: 62.5%
Round 2: 85.3%
Round 3: 95.7%
If Phil Mickelson leads at the end of today's round, he will be the first player to hold the lead after a major championship round in the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s.
Entering the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey, here were the best scores to par in the majors by players with 50+ rounds played since 1997 (there are 111 players in that group):
Tiger Woods, -125
Ernie Els, +73
Phil Mickelson, +74
Geoff Ogilvy, +77
Nick O'Hern, +102
Tommy Fleetwood: 22nd top-5 finish on the PGA Tour, most of any player on the PGA Tour without a win the last 40 years
Fleetwood is the first player in PGA Tour history to surpass $20M in official career earnings without a win.
Tommy has 6 wins on the DP World Tour.