What is 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.
How it's calculated
This is part of the course-fit model — the one place on OTIS where published numbers are combined into a score of our own, rather than restated. The components are shown separately so a total can always be taken apart into skill, venue fit and recent form. It is labelled as a model wherever it appears.
How to read it
Higher means the venue suits the player's particular strengths. It is the component most dependent on how much history the course has.
What it doesn't say
This is a modelled number, not a published one, and it is a ranking device rather than a prediction. It says a player's game matches what a venue has rewarded historically — nothing about injuries, weather on the day, or form that has not shown up in the data yet. Small gaps between adjacent players are noise, and venues with little hosting history produce weaker-supported scores than long-standing hosts.
OTIS tracks this stat across 15 PGA Tour seasons — see it for every player, or read how the numbers are sourced in the methodology.