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PGA TOUR STATS - 2020 SEASON

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Stats for the PGA Tour 2020 Season

Dataset Description

Context

The major story during the 2020 PGA Tour season was everything related to Bryson Dechambeau and his unorthodox approach to the game. I wanted to see if Bryson's strategy really paid off and if the old golf adage "drive for show, and putt for dough" was true...

I made a web scraper to go through every PGA Tour stat from the 2020 season and compiled it into this dataset here. I only included a sample of the columns from the whole dataset since there are +200 different stats the PGA Tour tracks.

Checkout the full web scraper PGA Tour Scraper

Content

For a quick vocabulary lesson on golf, the below words and phrases are helpful.

  • FIR = Fairway in regulation. This is when the golfer hits the fairway from their tee shot
  • GIR = Green in regulation. This is when a golfer hits in the green in 1 shot on a par 3, 2 shots on a par 4, and 3 shots on a par 5
  • Approach = The shot you take attempting to make a GIR
  • Smash Factor = The ratio between the Ball Speed and the Club Speed. The higher the smash factor the better the energy transfer to the ball.
  • Scramble = Make a par after missing the green
  • Sand Save = Make a par from a bunker
  • Fringe = Short grass around the green
  • Rough = Tall thick grass

Acknowledgements

Data was collected from https://www.pgatour.com/stats.html

Inspiration

Love the game and wanted to see where my stats stack up against the guys on tour!


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