greenOak
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Here's the most recent quotation I could find, but I know I've seen other places before:
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I've seen these stats before and I suspect a lot of it is setup driven - PGA tour tends to have firmer greens making how the ball reacts on the green more unpredictable. The PGA tour may also have tougher pin positions on average but I'm not sure about that.
Also, Minjee Lee appears to be a major statistical outlier in approach play. In 2022 she gained a whopping +2.02 strokes per round in approach play. On the PGA tour, Scheffler led this category with +1.194 last year, and Zallatoris led with +1.063 in 2022. In the PGA tour strokes gained database (goes back to 2004), Tiger Woods, who is widely regarded as the GOAT iron player, is the only player to ever average over 2 strokes gained in approach play for a season (+2.072 in 2006). In fact, nobody outside of Tiger has ever broke the +1.5 mark. Even in terms of how far ahead she is of second place, Tiger is the only player in the men's game who has shown similar dominance.
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