2008 PGA Tour 'BallStriking' Stats

In my spare time, I'm a bit of a sports statistics nut. Recently over at GolfWRX there was a post asking who is the best ballstriker on tour, so I decided to give a stab at it with some statistics. I took the following stats:

- Total Driving (Driving Distance + Driving Accuracy)
- Greens In Regulation
- Proximity to the Hole

I took the rankings for each category, totaled them up for each player and the lower the total ranking, the better. Here's what I came up with for the 2008 season (Tiger didn't qualify in 2008).


1. John Huston
2. Chad Campbell
3. John Riegger
4. Joe Durant
5. Jeff Gove
6. John Senden
7. Hunter Mahan
8. Kent Jones
9. Robert Allenby
10. Kenny Perry
11. Briny Baird
12. Michael Allen
13. Jay Williamson
14. Heath Slocum
15. Jason Gore
16. Ryan Palmer
17. Chez Reavie
18. Boo Weekley
19. Vijay Singh
20. Steve Marino
21. Harrison Frazar
22. Paul Casey
23. Scott Sterling
24. Zach Johnson
25. Robert Gamez
26. Chris Stroud
27. Woody Austin
28. Tommy Armour III
29. Ryan Armour
30. Billy Mayfair
31. John Merrick
32. D.J. Trahan
33. Gavin Coles
34. Charley Hoffman
35. J.J. Henry
36. Justin Leonard
37. Mark Wilson
38. Ben Crane
39. Rich Beem
40. Scott Verplank
41. Bart Bryant
42. Tom Scherrer
43. Pat Perez
44. Lucas Glover
45. Charlie Wi
46. Steve Elkington
47. Bob Estes
48. Jim Furyk
49. Charles Warren
50. Cameron Beckman
51. Olin Browne
52. Patrick Sheehan
53. Justin Bolli
54. Kevin Streelman
55. Bob Tway
56. Rory Sabbatini
57. Bubba Watson
58. Martin Laird
59. Tommy Gainey
60. Ron Whittaker
61. George McNeill
62. Mathew Goggin
63. Nick Watney
64. Vaughn Taylor
65. Nick O'Hern
66. Bill Haas
67. Y.E. Yang
68. Doug LaBelle II
69. Bo Van Pelt
70. Troy Matteson
71. Ben Curtis
72. Sergio Garcia
73. Jeff Maggert
74. Anthony Kim
75. Brandt Jobe
76. Stewart Cink
77. Shane Bertsch
78. Omar Uresti
79. Kevin Sutherland
80. Fred Couples
81. Robert Garrigus
82. Trevor Immelman
83. Stephen Ames
84. Brian Gay
85. Mark Calcavecchia
86. Ted Purdy
87. David Toms
88. Brian Davis
89. Sean O'Hair
90. John Rollins
91. Kevin Stadler
92. Jim McGovern
93. Davis Love III
94. Todd Demsey
95. Glen Day
96. Steve Allan
97. Mike Weir
98. Dean Wilson
99. Tim Clark
100. Michael Letzig
101. Scott McCarron
102. Joe Ogilvie
103. Jon Mills
104. Alex Cejka
105. Nicholas Thompson
106. Jason Day
107. Rod Pampling
108. Camilo Villegas
109. Lee Janzen
110. Nick Flanagan
111. Will MacKenzie
112. Kenneth Ferrie
113. Steve Flesch
114. Phil Mickelson
115. Frank Lickliter II
116. Tim Wilkinson
117. Geoff Ogilvy
118. Todd Hamilton
119. Charles Howell III
120. Matt Kuchar
121. Padraig Harrington
122. Jonathan Byrd
123. Tim Petrovic
124. Jin Park
125. Brenden Pappas
126. Tom Pernice, Jr.
127. Adam Scott
128. Craig Kanada
129. Ernie Els
130. John Mallinger
131. Paul Goydos
132. Peter Lonard
133. Paul Claxton
134. Tag Ridings
135. Kevin Na
136. Ken Duke
137. Richard S. Johnson
138. Mathias Gronberg
139. Ryan Moore
140. Jerry Kelly
141. K.J. Choi
142. Cliff Kresge
143. Greg Kraft
144. Brad Elder
145. Carlos Franco
146. Marc Turnesa
147. Jeff Quinney
148. Dudley Hart
149. Dustin Johnson
150. Billy Andrade
151. Steve Stricker
152. Brett Quigley
153. Brad Adamonis
154. Mark Hensby
155. Tim Herron
156. Carl Pettersson
157. Corey Pavin
158. Jeff Overton
159. Brandt Snedeker
160. Marco Dawson
161. Alejandro Canizares
162. Chris DiMarco
163. J.B. Holmes
164. Kyle Thompson
165. Stephen Leaney
166. Rocco Mediate
167. Andres Romero
168. Travis Perkins
169. Angel Cabrera
170. James Driscoll
171. Fredrik Jacobson
172. Bob Sowards
173. David Lutterus
174. Stuart Appleby
175. Jason Allred
176. Tom Lehman
177. Cody Freeman
178. Retief Goosen
179. Chris Riley
180. Jimmy Walker
181. Aaron Baddeley
182. Parker McLachlin
183. Ian Poulter
184. J.P. Hayes
185. Matt Jones
186. Ryuji Imada
187. Brett Rumford
188. Richard Johnson
189. Eric Axley
190. Jesper Parnevik
191. Johnson Wagner
192. Daniel Chopra
193. Steve Lowery
194. David Duval
195. Chad Collins
196. Shigeki Maruyama
197. Nathan Green


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