What is 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.
How it's calculated
Driving statistics come from the tour's own measurement. Distance is recorded on designated holes chosen to balance wind direction, so it reflects normal driving rather than downwind bombs; accuracy and fairway-miss figures are recorded on every drive. OTIS restates the published season figures rather than deriving its own.
How to read it
Higher is better. It is more forgiving than fairway percentage because a miss that still produced a green in regulation counts as a good outcome.
What it doesn't say
Distance and accuracy trade against each other, and neither alone says whether a player drives the ball well — that is what strokes gained off the tee is for. Fairway percentage in particular is a blunt instrument: it counts a ball one foot into the rough the same as one in the trees, which is precisely why the distance-from-fairway-edge figure exists alongside it. Course setup also moves these numbers year to year.
OTIS tracks this stat across 15 PGA Tour seasons — see it for every player, or read how the numbers are sourced in the methodology.