Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), February 10, 1990, p. 19

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How the PGA follows leaders win lose DREW THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday February Page STAT SHEET JOHN GRABOWSKI marks the start of the second decade of the official PGA Tour tlstlcs This program compiles fig ures In nine golfing categories log leaders driving distance driving accuracy greens regulation put ting leaders par breakers eagle lead ers birdie leaders and sand saves Designed to help touring pros iden tify the parts of their game that need the most work the totals are com piled by walking scorers who pass them on to the Tour statistician data is then sent to the main comput er in the Tour headquarters In Flori da which issues weekly updates of tbe standings Who bad the best stats for the past 10 years The scoring leader among players with a minimum of rounds on the PGA Tour In the was Tom Kite with an average of per holes He was followed closely by Tom Wat son Not coincidentally they also rank 2 on the PGA Tour J all time money list Going into Kite bad won million in his career Watson had taken home nearly 2 million By the way Watson won tournaments in the past decade a figure matched by Curtis Strange Kite was first times The honors in driving distance in the 1980s went to Davis Love III the youngest of decade leaders Love who will not turn 26 until this April averaged 279 7 yards per drive The runnerup Greg Norman On the other hand a veteran won the driving accuracy title in the 1980s Calvin Peete who did not take up the game of golf until age 23 has dominated in this category marked his ninth consecutive year as the leader His overall mark of 813 is points ahead of Mike Held in sec ond place To get a better Idea of dom inance consider that a difference of just points separates the next 10 players on the list Peete also took first place in greens in regulation making him the only pro to lead in two categories in the ISSOs He narrowly edged Bruce Lletxke 709 to 705 with John Ma baffey third at San Diegoborn Morris set the pace among putters On greens hit in regulation during the past decade be averaged 28 51 putts per round Willie Wood the former twotime All American from Oklahoma State trailed with an average of 77 Aussie Greg Norman was the de cade leader in par breakers with a percentage of Tom Watson once again finished second at 207 By the way Norman was one of only three players to finish in the top 10 during the 1980s In four of the nine catego ries Kite and David Frost were the others Since par breakers represent tbe average of total birdies and eagles out of total boles played you might ex to find Normans name among leaders In one or both of those other categories Surprisingly he does not even make top In eagle leaders Fred Couples led the way with a total of 81 or one more than Craig Bobby Wad kins took first place among Birdie Leaders with during the past decade Curtis Strange finished sec ond with The final category sand saves Is the only one in which there was a tie for first place Two era Isao Aoki of Japan and David Frost 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