There are 10 longest and 10 shortest drivers on the PGA Tour.
When it comes to driving distance, taller golfers with long levers have a natural advantage.
For example, takeDustin Johnson.DJ is a prolific driver of the golf ball.He holds the record for the longest drive on tour, eating up 463 yards on the seventh hole at TPC Boston in his final round in 2011.
While seven of the top ten golfers in this metric stand at 1.90 metres or taller, the two highest ranked are average height.
Champ, who recorded his second PGA Tour win at the Safeway Open in September 2019, is averaging just shy of 318 yards per tote, with McIlroy four yards back.
The trio of shorter players dominated the top five in the category, with Wyndham Clark leading the way at 311 yards.
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It would seem that the taller golfer doesn't hold a huge advantage over the field when you consider that Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods are only average height.
It has been the success of some of the shortest players to grace the game, that there are plenty of role models for golfers of shorter stature to emulate.
The legend of Tadd Fujikawa making the cut at the Sony Open Hawaii will live on.There is a pic.
The American was born three months premature, weighing just 1 pound and 15 ounces, and was given a 50% chance of survival by the doctors.
Fujikawa was the youngest golfer in history to qualify for the US Open when he was 15 years old.
He made his first cut on the tour at the Sony Open in Hawaii in 2007, despite missing the cut by nine strokes.At 16 years and 4 days old, he was the second youngest player to achieve this feat.
Fujikawa was the first amateur since 1992 to win the Hawaii Pearl Open.
Fujikawa was the first openly gay professional golfer.
He said that he didn't have to do it, but that it helped him see other stories like his and gave him a lot of hope.
Fujikawa is a member of the country club.A publicly gay man living in a conservative state has commented on the fact that many locals are less accepting.
He described the decision to come out as scary, but that the reaction has been encouraging and his fellow pros have been very supportive.
Fujikawa is proof that all body types can do great things on tour.
The left-handed golfer has had a good start to the 2020 PGA Tour season, tying for third at the Greenbrier and fourteenth in the Sanderson Farms Championship.
He was the first alternate at the 2012 Players Championship.After D.A.Points withdrew just minutes before his tee time, as he was too late to join Carl Pettersson and Robert Garrigus in the group.He made the cut and finished T51 in the first round.
In 2015, Harman became the third player in tour history to record two ace in the same round.After holing in one at the third, Harman hit a rescue club into the 14th, only to see the ball disappear again.
At the U.S. Open, he finished as a runner-up to Hideki Matsuyama.The lowest score at the championship was matched by the winner of this tournament, who won by four strokes.
Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, the 'Wee Welshman' enjoyed a successful career.
The so-called Big Five generation of European golfers were all born within twelve months of each other.Seve Ballesteros, Nick Faldo, Sandy Lyle and Woosnam are just a few of the Europeans who have won majors.
Woosnam had a record of 14 wins, 12 losses and 5 halves in his 31 matches in the Ryder Cup.He didn't win a singles match in that time.He captained the European side to a victory at the K-Club in Ireland.
Woosnam, considered a powerful hitter despite his stature, made his European Tour debut in 1979 and lived on a diet of baked beans and camper vans to save money.
In 1991, Woosnam broke through to the top of the Official World Golf Ranking and won the Masters.He was the first person from Wales to win a major championship.
The fact that Woosnam won the World Match Play Championship in three different decades, in 1987, 1990 and 2001 is a testament to his longevity as a competitive force in the game.
Gene Sarazen made a hole in one at Royal Troon at the age of 71, 49 years after his Open debut.
Sarazen is one of only five players to win all four majors and complete the Career Grand Slam.He is one of four Americans in this group.Gary Player is from South Africa.
Sarazen won The Open Championship at Prince's Golf Club in 1932 and claimed to have invented the modern sand wedge.
Sarazen may have seen a similar sand-specific club that was patented in 1928.The sand club Bobby Jones was using was banned due to the fact that it contacted the ball twice during a swing.
Between 1922 and 1933, Sarazen won three PGA Championships, two US Opens and one Open Championship.
Sarazen hit the shot heard around the world at the 1935 Masters, his seventh and final major victory.He hit a spoon on the par five 15th at Augusta to record an albatross.
The albatross catapulted Sarazen into a tie for the lead in the final round and he went on to beat Craig Wood in a 36-hole playoff.
The Sarazen Bridge was named in 1955 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of this shot.