Yearly One-Putt Percentage Leaders on PGA Tour

Which golfers on the PGA Tour are most successful at one-putting greens? The tour has a stat for that. It's called One-Putt Percentage, and the list below shows which golfers have led the tour going back to the early 1990s.

The PGA Tour has tracked the One-Putt Percentage stat since 1992. This statistic measures the percentage of time a golfer needs only one putt to complete a hole: Take the total number of times a golfer one-putts a hole, divide that by total holes a golfer has played, and that is one-putt percentage.

For example, if a golfer plays 1,000 holes during a year and holes-out with just one putt on 440 of them, his one-putt percentage is 44-percent. And 44-percent is a good number for this stat. The best golfers in this category are usually in the 43-45-percent range.

The lowest one-putt percentage to lead the tour is the 41.63-percent by Greg Kraft in 1996. The highest figure to lead the tour is the 46.81-percent by Bob Heintz in 2002. The tour has never been led by a one-putt percentage lower than 41 or higher than 47.

The List: PGA Tour's Best 1-Putt Percentages by Year

2024 — Christiaan Bezuidenhout, 45.10-percent
2023 — Taylor Montgomery, 46.62
2022 — Lucas Herbert, 44.96
2021 — Patrick Reed, 45.09
2020 — Ian Poulter, 45.37
2019 — Jordan Spieth, 45.43
2018 — Peter Malnati, 44.24
2017 — Jonax Blixt, 43.81
2016 — Brendon Todd, 44.80
2015 — Jordan Spieth, 44.26
2014 — Jordan Spieth, 45.86
2013 — Brian Gay, 45.71
2012 — Brandt Snedeker, 44.30
2011 — Steve Stricker, 44.77
2010 — Brian Gay, 43.93
2009 — Aaron Baddeley, 43.93
2008 — Padraig Harrington, 43.56
2007 — Tim Clark, 44.10
2006 — Brian Gay, 43.15
2005 — Steve Stricker, 44.71
2004 — Jose Coceres, 43.58
2003 — Aaron Baddeley, 44.44
2002 — Bob Heintz, 46.81
2001 — Craig Kanada, 43.59
2000 — Brad Faxon, 44.39
1999 — Chris Riley, 43.19
1998 — Rick Fehr, 44.98
1997 — Ed Fiori, 42.22
1996 — Greg Kraft, 41.63
1995 — Jim Furyk, 43.14
1994 — Greg Kraft, 41.80
1993 — Jeff Woodland, 42.17
1992 — David Frost, 42.04

A few golfers have led the PGA Tour multiple times in One-Putt Percentage. So far only two have done so in three different years: Jordan Spieth and Brian Gay. Spieth led the tour in this stat in 2014, 2015 and 2019; Gay in 2006, 2010 and 2013. Spieth is also the only golfer to lead the PGA Tour in One-Putt Percentage in back-to-back years.

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• Yearly PGA Tour putting leaders
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• Yearly Total Driving leaders on PGA Tour

Sources:
PGATour.com. Stats, One-Putt Percentage, https://www.pgatour.com/stats/detail/413.