Four players in League 50 of over-bi PGA Tour (previously known as PGA Tour’s champions) are on average 300 yards or more outside this season: Stewart Cink, Padraig HarringtonBrendan Jones and Cameron Percy.
This may not sound like many players given the average direction distance for all From PGA Tour is 303.7 yards, but relatively-speaking, it is. Consider that before 2023, the Champions tournament never had more than one player to hit 300 yards per season – and usually none. The overall distance of the tournament in the champions is not surprising, it is also increasing. This year, Graybeards are on average 283.3 per poke. This is a four -yard growth from 2024, nearly a jump of six yards from ’23 and more than one 14 yard stroke from 2013. Here are the full data located during that period:
2025* – 283.3
2024 – 279.1
2023 – 277.6
2022 – 280.3
2021 – No data (Covid)
2020 – 275
2019 – 272.2
2018 – 277.6
2017 – 275.7
2016 – 274.7
2015 – 273.3
2014 – 270.9
2013 – 269
*Until September. 7
Most bum reasons are visible and in accordance with why car distance has scored high in other tours (and why are the governing bodies Actions to inhibit profits): speed -centered techniques; specialized training (in the rank and in the gym); and optimized technology. But there is another dynamics at work: Tiger Woods’ peers are coming to age. (By which we mean “return of 50.”) This is significant because Woods generation was the first to deliberately follow the distance many with the help of data, science and technology. What else did they have when the boy who was running the circles around them also happened to be 20 or 30 meters longer than them?
Among that package of tiger chasers was Stewart zincwho has won three times in the Champions County since the 5023th in 2023 and this season ranks second on the money list after Angel Miguel Jiménez. “While the players behind me turn 50,” reporters told Journalists the next day at the Champions event in St. Louis, “These will be players who have had power as one of their main advantages in their whole career play, and now they will simply bring it here.
Coming? It’s here!
In PGA Tour in 2020, Cink on average “only” 295 yards away. Then he torn down his attack corner, added more attic to his driver and began paying attention to biomechanics. Voila: 304-305 yards became his norm, along with 175 km per hour or more speed from which he still benefits today. This is Pro Golf in 2025, but the seeds for this approach were planted years ago. “It was more that I think the technology we learned about how to benefit, like the starting monitors and all the data and optimization,” Cink told his prime minister. “We all learned that the shocks gained from tee; we learned how important it is to push your ball a little further down the road. Basically every 10 yards is a tenth of a stroke. This is a kind of like to donate it for free there, if you can hit 10 yards further.”
Padraig Harrington thinks the same way. His obsession to become faster has led him to speed the train on the tour with a spare driver if his high -speed oscillations result in a cracked face. Harrington says he marked the ball speed in the 180s high, and in 2024 his average distance in the Champions tournament was a 308 yard of meat.
Oh, and that boy Cink and Harrington were watching all those years in PGA Tour? You can also see that bombing drives on the Champions tournament come next year. Tiger Woods has not yet revealed his goals for the elderly competitive golf, but he will become acceptable when he returns 50 on December 23, and be able to use a wheelchair in the tour game would probably appeal. Ernie Els has asked Woods to play. So is Jack Nicklaus, who went so far as to predict that Woods would win half of the champions in which he plays. And, yes, Woods, despite his physical restrictions, can still get it there. During the 2025 TGL season, The average of his ball velocity It was 174.7 MPH at a top speed of 181.2.
Other bombs are also crawling at 50. Charley Hoffman, who can still move his ball, hits the half -century sign in late 2026. The four -time Ryan Palmer tournament is also approaching; He turns 50 in 2027. After a Liv Rocky 2025 season, Henrik Stenson with a long stroke, which is 49, is facing giving up; If he loses his Livi country, who knows where he can end – maybe, at one point, starting rockets on the Champions tournament.
