Breaking Down Tiger Woods’ Decline Using New PGA Tour Statistics

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Published: September 3, 2014

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Tiger Woods' golf game is on the decline. That much is clear.

During the first 13 years of Woods' career, he won 71 PGA Tour events, which was an average of 5.46 wins per year.

Between 2010 and 2014, Woods has won eight PGA Tour events, which works out to an average of just 1.6 wins per year.

Everyone seems to have their own opinion as to the exact cause of Woods' decline since 2010.

It's his putting.

It's his driving.

It's his short game.

It's his golf swing.

It's all due to that embarrassing sex scandal and subsequent divorce in 2010.

It's due to injuries.

It's due to a lack of focus and effort in recent years.

Name any aspect of the golf game, whether that be physical or mental, and at least a handful of so-called experts would have attributed a decline in that particular area to the ultimate decline of Woods' entire game over the past five years.  

As a longtime observer of the game of golf, I certainly have my ideas as to what has caused Woods' game to deteriorate in recent years. But I am also a numbers guy, and thanks to the addition of some new statistics released by the PGA Tour just last week, it has become quite easy to analyze every aspect of Woods' game to identify exactly what has caused Woods to go from arguably the most dominant force the game had ever seen to a player who now struggles to find any form of consistency out on the golf course.

 

Strokes Gained Putting

PGATour.com's Definition: "The number of putts a player takes from a specific distance is measured against a statistical baseline to determine the player's strokes gained or lost on a hole. The sum of the values for all holes played in a round minus the field average strokes gained/lost for the round is the player's Strokes gained/lost for that round."

Between 2004 (when the Tour first...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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