Yearly Total Driving Leaders on the PGA Tour
The PGA Tour's official definition of Total Driving is this: "Total Driving is computed by totaling a player's rank in both driving distance and driving accuracy."
It's a very simple and, relative to many of the stats created by or for the tour since the 2010s, unsophisticated stat: If a golfer ranks 15th in driving distance and 43rd in driving accuracy, his Total Driving total is 58 (15 + 43). That's it. The lower that resulting number, the higher the golfer will rank in Total Driving.
And the 58 from our example, by the way, would be a very good number for this statistic. The lowest number the Total Driving total could ever be is two — ranking first in both driving distance and accuracy. But that has never come close to happening. In fact, in the history of the Total Driving stat, the tour-leading total has been lower than 40 only three times: Ludvig Aberg's 33 in 2023, David Duval's 35 in 1999, and Greg Norman's 36 in 1988.
The List: PGA Tour Yearly 'Total Driving' Leaders
The number that follows the golfer's name is his Total Driving total. The numbers in parentheses are his Driving Distance rank and Driving Accuracy rank, in that order (if you see "12/63" in parentheses, the golfer ranked 12th that year in average driving distance and 63rd in driving accuracy).
2024 — Rico Hoey, 83 (25/58)
2023 — Ludvig Aberg, 33 (6/27)
2022 — Jon Rahm, 61 (5/56)
2021 — Jon Rahm, 80 (19/61)
2020 — Paul Casey, 75 (23/52)
2019 — Brendan Steele, 56 (34/22)
2018 — Justin Rose, 67 (34/33)
2017 — Keegan Bradley 69 (44/25)
2016 — Keegan Bradley, 64 (27/37)
2015 — Henrik Stenson, 55 (43/12)
2014 — Lucas Glover, 74 (20/54)
2013 — Graham DeLaet, 53 (19/34)
2012 — Boo Weekley, 74 (36/38)
2011 — John Merrick, 66 (41/25)
2010 — Charles Warren, 70 (9/61)
2009 — Jonathan Byrd, 92 (33/59)
2008 — Jason Gore, 56 (15/41)
2007 — Charles Warren, 59 (9/50)
2006 — Scott Gutschewski, 83 (11/72)
2005 — David Hearn, 73 (45/27)
2004 — Jeff Brehaut, 79 (62/17)
2003 — Mike Heinen, 51 (8/43)
2002 — Charles Howell III, 70 (4/66)
2001 — Sergio Garcia, 47 (22/25)
2000 — Tiger Woods, 56 (2/54)
1999 — David Duval, 35 (9/26)
1998 — Hal Sutton, 62 (58/4)
1997 — Joe Durant, 68 (43/25)
1996 — David Duval, 47 (29/18)
1995 — Nick Price, 40 (23/17)
1994 — Nick Price, 45 (6/39)
1993 — Greg Norman, 42 (9/33)
1992 — Bruce Lietzke, 52 (28/24)
1991 — Bruce Lietzke, 43 (34/9)
1990 — Kenny Perry, 55 (21/34)
1989 — Greg Norman, 42 (15/27)
1988 — Greg Norman, 36 (3/33)
1987 — Dan Pohl, 61 (15/46)
Note that while Total Driving is itself a component stat (created by totaling two other stats), it is also one of the compenents in a different stat. The PGA Tour's Ball Striking statistic is a combination of golfers' ranks in Total Driving and Greens in Regulation.
Several golfers have topped the Total Driving stat in two different seasons. But only one golfer so far has led the PGA Tour in Total Driving in as many as three different years — Greg Norman. Norman topped this statistical category in 1988, 1989 and 1993.
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PGATour.com. Stats, Total Driving, https://www.pgatour.com/stats/detail/129.
