Glossary

What every stat on OTIS Golf actually means.

Adjusted share: How much of the rating's weight came from rounds whose field strength was known and adjusted for. Below 100%, the remainder used the round's raw SG unadjusted — disclosed, never guessed.
Adjusted true SG: Skill rating from the tour's published per-round strokes gained: each measured round is adjusted for the strength of the field it was earned against, recent rounds count more (180-day half-life over a 2-year window), and thin samples are shrunk toward the tour average. Higher is better; +2 means about two strokes per round better than an average tour player.A disclosed model over published SG — see the methodology page. Players under 12 measured rounds are not rated at all rather than rated on noise.
Baseline: The player's average score per round over the trailing 12 months — their own recent norm.Raw scores, stroke-play events only.
Bent scoring: Average round score at courses with bentgrass greens — lower is better.Raw stroke-play round scores at bentgrass-green courses; shown only with a meaningful sample.
Bermuda scoring: Average round score at courses with bermudagrass greens — lower is better. A grouped tendency across every bermuda-green round played, not one venue.Raw stroke-play round scores at bermuda-green courses; shown only with a meaningful sample of rounds.
Birdies per Round: Average number of birdies made per round.
Course Fit: How well their game suits THIS venue — approach, off the tee, around the green, putting and past results here, weighted by what the course rewards.Course archetype is derived from yardage-per-par and scoring difficulty; venues with no hosting history score neutral on the history component.
Cuts Made: Tournaments where the player survived the halfway cut and played the weekend.
Dist. from Fairway Edge: Average distance from the fairway's edge on missed fairways — how badly a miss misses. A precision signal on tight, penal courses.Shown in feet; measured rounds only.
Distance (All Drives): Average length of every tee shot with a driver-type club, not just the two measured holes per round — the truest picture of raw power.Laser-measured events only.
Driving Accuracy: Percentage of tee shots that finish in the fairway.Par 4s and 5s only.
Driving Distance: Average drive length in yards, measured on two holes per round chosen to face opposite wind directions.Measured drives only, not every tee shot.
Earnings: Official prize money for the season, in US dollars.Excludes bonus pools like the Comcast Business Top 10.
Events: Official tournaments entered that season.
FedExCup Rank: Season-long points-race position that decides who reaches the playoffs and the TOUR Championship.
Finish: Final position in the event. T = tied, CUT = missed the cut, W/D = withdrew, DQ = disqualified.
Form: Recent form as a difficulty-adjusted strokes-gained figure: each recent round scored against how hard it actually played, with the latest starts weighted most and thin samples pulled toward the field average.Backed out of published round scores via a round-difficulty regression (no per-round SG feed is required); small-sample players are shrunk toward an average-tour-player baseline so noise can't spike them.
Form rounds: How many measured rounds the player's Form score is built from. More rounds = a more trustworthy form estimate; a handful of rounds is flagged as thin.The form layer shrinks thin-sample players toward the field average, so a low count already pulls the score toward neutral rather than swinging on noise.
GIR from Fairway: Greens in regulation when the approach comes from the fairway — iron play with a clean lie.
GIR from Rough: Greens in regulation when the approach comes from anywhere other than the fairway. The gap to the fairway number shows how much a missed fairway really costs this player.
Good Drive %: Tee shots that hit the fairway OR still produced a green in regulation from the miss. Fairer than fairways-hit: missing by a foot into light rough isn't punished.
Greens in Regulation: Percentage of holes where the ball is on the green with at least two strokes left for par (e.g. on a par 4, on the green in 2).
Measured Rounds: How many ShotLink-measured rounds the season's Strokes Gained figures are built from — the sample size behind the SG numbers.Opposite-field and some international events aren't ShotLink-measured, so this is usually fewer than total rounds played.
Model: This week's overall score, 0-100. Blends True Skill (45%), Course Fit (35%) and Form (20%). It ranks the field for this venue — it is not a win probability.Players with little measured PGA Tour data are scored partly from defaults and carry a LOW DATA flag; treat those scores with suspicion.
Par-3 Scoring: Average score on par-3 holes (3.00 is even par).
Par-4 Scoring: Average score on par-4 holes (4.00 is even par).
Par-5 Scoring: Average score on par-5 holes, where pros make their biggest gains (tour average is under par).
Poa scoring: Average round score at courses with poa annua greens (the bumpy, late-day west-coast surface) — lower is better.Raw stroke-play round scores at poa-green courses; shown only with a meaningful sample.
Proximity <100 yds: Average distance to the hole on approach shots from inside 100 yards — pure wedge scoring range.Shown in feet; measured rounds only.
Proximity 100-125: Average distance to the hole on approaches from 100-125 yards out.Shown in feet; measured rounds only.
Proximity 125-150: Average distance to the hole on approaches from 125-150 yards — short-iron territory.Shown in feet; measured rounds only.
Proximity 150-175: Average distance to the hole on approaches from 150-175 yards — mid-iron territory.Shown in feet; measured rounds only.
Proximity 175-200: Average distance to the hole on approaches from 175-200 yards. Elite play here is a big edge on courses with long par 4s.Shown in feet; measured rounds only.
Proximity 200+: Average distance to the hole on approaches from beyond 200 yards — long irons and woods.Shown in feet; measured rounds only.
Putting 25+ ft: Make percentage from beyond 25 feet. Low for everyone — lag quality matters more than makes here.
Putting 3-5 ft: Make percentage from 3-5 feet — the knee-knocker par-save range where misses sting most.
Putting 5-10 ft: Make percentage from 5-10 feet — the birdie zone that separates hot putting weeks from cold ones.
Putts per Round: Average putts per round. Beware: missing lots of greens lowers this number, so pair it with SG: Putting.
Recent scoring average: Average score per round over the selected window of recent events (last 5 or last 10). Unadjusted for field strength or course difficulty — a 68 at a birdie-fest counts the same as a 68 at a U.S. Open.Raw scores, stroke-play events only. The course-fit model's "Form" is different: difficulty-adjusted strokes gained. They are not comparable.
Scoring Average: Average score per round, adjusted for the field's scoring each week so hard weeks don't punish a player unfairly.The tour's adjusted (not raw) scoring average.
Scrambling: How often a player still makes par or better after missing the green in regulation.
Scrambling from Rough: Par-or-better saves when the missed green left the ball in the rough.
Scrambling from Sand: Par-or-better saves out of greenside bunkers.
Season Status: Whether the season is finished. In-progress season numbers change weekly until the playoffs end.
SG: Approach: Strokes gained on shots into the green, including par-3 tee shots but not short-game shots. The stat most predictive of sustained elite play.Strokes Gained needs ShotLink-measured rounds; opposite-field and some international events are excluded, and a season shows no SG until a player logs enough measured rounds.
SG: Around the Green: Strokes gained on shots within 30 yards of the edge of the green: chips, pitches, and bunker play.Strokes Gained needs ShotLink-measured rounds; opposite-field and some international events are excluded, and a season shows no SG until a player logs enough measured rounds.
SG: Off the Tee: Strokes gained from tee shots on par 4s and 5s. Rewards long AND accurate driving, not just distance.Strokes Gained needs ShotLink-measured rounds; opposite-field and some international events are excluded, and a season shows no SG until a player logs enough measured rounds.
SG: Putting: Strokes gained on the greens, accounting for how hard each putt's distance is. The noisiest SG category year to year.Strokes Gained needs ShotLink-measured rounds; opposite-field and some international events are excluded, and a season shows no SG until a player logs enough measured rounds.
SG: Tee-to-Green: Strokes gained everywhere except the putting green: off the tee, approach and around the green combined. Isolates ball-striking from putting.The tour's published tee-to-green figure (SG: Off the Tee + Approach + Around the Green). Strokes Gained needs ShotLink-measured rounds; opposite-field and some international events are excluded, and a season shows no SG until a player logs enough measured rounds.
SG: Total: Strokes gained on the field per round, all parts of the game combined. +2.0 means beating the field average by two strokes every round.Strokes Gained needs ShotLink-measured rounds; opposite-field and some international events are excluded, and a season shows no SG until a player logs enough measured rounds.
Top 10s: Finishes of 10th place or better, ties included.
Total Driving: Driving-distance rank plus driving-accuracy rank combined — lower is better. Rewards being long AND straight, punishing one-dimensional drivers.
Trend: Baseline minus form: positive means the player is beating their own 12-month norm — trending hot.A score-based proxy, not Strokes Gained — the tour does not publish per-round SG at usable granularity.
True Skill: How good the player is, regardless of this course: their strokes-gained profile ranked against the rest of this week's field.Strokes Gained needs ShotLink-measured rounds; opposite-field and some international events are excluded, and a season shows no SG until a player logs enough measured rounds.
Venue rounds: How many rounds the player has previously played at this week's course — the evidence behind the History part of Course Fit. 0 means no history here.With no venue history the History component falls back to a slightly-below-average default rather than being guessed.
Wins: Official tour victories that season.
World Ranking: Official World Golf Ranking position, a rolling two-year points average across global tours.Former members off the ranking show no value.