PGA TOUR STATS - 2020 SEASON

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!