Here's an pleasing video of PGA Tour gamers answering who is the first-class driving force of the ball.
Most of the answers line up with my metric Driving Effectiveness. Here are the contemporary top-10 gamers in Driving Effectiveness:
1. Bubba Watson
2. Rory McIlroy
3. Hunter Mahan
four. Charlie Beljan
5. Boo Weekley
6. Jason Dufner
7. John Rollins
8. Graeme McDowell
9. Graham DeLaet
10. Keegan Bradley
A few things I disagree with are:
- Using the Tour's 'Total Driving' metric is flawed because of the manner the 'system' is designed (adding the scores instead of looking at the actual numbers) and it does not account for the way horrific the player's leave out is when they miss the golf green. My Driving Effectiveness metric is a proprietary formula that utilizes the real numbers of the player's riding distance, fairway percentage and average distance to edge of fairway.
That being said, Bill Haas' pick of Charles Warren (which Haas primarily based off of Warren's Total Driving on Tour) is an top notch choose. When Warren has been at the PGA Tour, he's been continually in the top-10 in my Driving Effectiveness rating.
He now not simplest hits it accurately and precisely, but with excellent energy. And he is alternatively small in stature, which amazes me that swing instructors hardly ever have his swing on video at the same time as you could locate the golfing swing of Stuart Appleby on YouTube readily. Appleby is at excellent an average motive force of the ball (and a under common overall ballstriker).
- Hitting it short however accurately does now not make a golfer effective off the tee, specially in opposition to the rest of the Tour. While Brian Gay has had some powerful years using the ball, he is currently 167th in Driving Effectiveness on Tour. Even if he's hitting the most fairways and having the best distance to the edge of the green, he can still be much less effective than a Boo Weekley who hits it 30 yards similarly and hits less fairways and has a more distance to the threshold of the golf green.
According to my metrics, the exceptional quick hitting drivers of the ball on Tour are:
Graeme McDowell
Heath Slocum
Jim Furyk
Personally, I could rank those players because the best drivers on Tour. This is based totally on the metrics along side the varieties of gamers I think can carry their riding prowess into the hardest courses inside the world:
Boo Weekley
Rory McIlroy
Hunter Mahan
Jason Dufner
John Rollins
Graeme McDowell
Keegan Bradley
Bo Van Pelt
Kevin Stadler
John Senden
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