Players

How player pages are built

Every player who appears in the fifteen-season window gets a full profile, 1,489 of them — not just current tour members. A profile carries the biographical record, the career totals, the world and FedExCup ranking, strokes-gained splits by season, proximity and putting detail, and every stored result with its round scores. Players who have left the tour are kept and marked as former members rather than deleted, because a database that quietly forgets people is useless for looking anything up historically. The index on this page is filterable by name, country and status, sortable on any column including the strokes-gained categories, and exportable. Each row links through to the full profile.

What strokes gained tells you about a player

Strokes gained measures a player against the field from comparable positions, which makes it the closest thing golf has to a fair comparison between two players who never teed off together. Split into off the tee, approach, around the green and putting, it locates where a player's advantage actually lives: two players with identical scoring averages can be built completely differently, and the splits are what show it. Approach play is generally the largest and most persistent component; putting is the noisiest and the least predictive week to week, which is worth remembering before reading too much into a hot fortnight on the greens. Sort the table by any category to rank the field on that skill alone.

How to compare two players

Sorting this index on a single column answers who leads a category, but comparing two specific players is usually the more interesting question. Open either profile and use the compare control, which puts the two records side by side across seasons rather than making you hold one page in your head while reading the other. When you do, compare like with like: a season with twelve measured rounds is not evidence on the same footing as one with sixty, and strokes-gained figures from a thin sample move a long way on very little. The round counts are shown for exactly this reason. Where a player has no measured rounds for a season the cell is blank, never zero.

Coverage and known gaps

Two gaps are worth knowing about before you rely on this index. First, strokes gained requires ShotLink-measured rounds, and the tour has not measured every round of every event across all fifteen seasons — coverage thins the further back you look, so a blank in an older season usually means unmeasured rather than unremarkable. Second, players who appear only through major championships or as occasional entrants are included and flagged, but their records here reflect only tour-recorded events, not their full professional careers elsewhere. Neither gap is hidden or interpolated over. Where a number does not exist, the cell stays empty, and the sort puts blanks last so an absence can never masquerade as a low score.

Common questions

How many PGA Tour players does OTIS Golf track?

OTIS holds full profiles for 1,489 players — everyone who appears anywhere in the fifteen-season window, including former members and major-championship entrants, not only current tour members.

What does strokes gained mean for a golfer?

It measures how many shots a player gains or loses against the field from comparable positions, split into off the tee, approach, around the green and putting. It shows not just that a player is performing well, but which part of their game is responsible.

Why do some players have no strokes gained statistics?

Strokes gained requires ShotLink-measured rounds. A player without enough measured rounds in a season has no figure for it, and OTIS leaves that blank rather than substituting a zero or an estimate. This is a tour data limitation, not a gap in the site.

Are former PGA Tour players included?

Yes. Anyone who played inside the fifteen-season window is kept and clearly marked as a former member, so their record stays searchable instead of disappearing when they leave the tour.

Sourcing is set out on the methodology page; every stat name is defined in the glossary.