What is Putts per Round?
Average putts per round. Beware: missing lots of greens lowers this number, so pair it with SG: Putting.
How it's calculated
These are the tour's published season figures. Scoring average is adjusted for the difficulty of the fields and weeks a player faced, so a season spent on hard courses is not punished relative to one spent on easy ones. The par-3, par-4 and par-5 figures are straight averages over holes of that length.
How to read it
Lower looks better but frequently is not, as the definition warns: missing greens leaves chips instead of long putts and lowers the count. Read strokes gained on putting instead if the question is who putted well.
What it doesn't say
Averages hide their distribution. Two players with the same scoring average can be built completely differently — one steady, one alternating brilliant and poor rounds — and the average alone will not tell you which. Par-5 scoring in particular is driven by how often a player reaches in two, which is a distance question as much as a scoring one. And an average over a part-season is a smaller sample than it looks.
OTIS tracks this stat across 15 PGA Tour seasons — see it for every player, or read how the numbers are sourced in the methodology.