Four players in the 50-and-over League of the PGA Tour (also known as the PGA Tour champions) are on average 300 yards or longer from the Tee: Stewart Cink, Padraig Harrington, Brendan Jones and Cameron Percy this season.
That may not sound like many players who get the average driving distance for all There is 303.7 meters of the PGA Tour, but relatively speaking, it is. Remember that before 2023 the Champions tour had never had more than one player 300 yards for the season – and in most seasons none. The overall Champions Tour riding distance, no surprise, also increases. This year the Graybeards are on average 283.3 per POR. That is an increase of four meters compared to 2024, almost a jump of six meters from ’23 and more than a spike of 14 meters from 2013. Here is the full data set in 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 reasons for the tree are clear and in accordance with the reason why driving distance on other tours has been checked (and why the administrative bodies take action to curb profit): speed -oriented techniques; Specialized training (about the reach and in the gym); And optimized technology. But there is also another dynamic at work: the colleagues of Tiger Woods are growing up. (By which we mean in this context “50.”) That is important because the Woods generation was the first to strive for aggressively with the help of data, science and technology. What other choice did she then have the man who ran circles around them was also 20 or 30 meters longer than she was?
Under that Pack van Tiger Chasers was Stewart Cink, who has won three times on the Champions Circuit since 50 in 2023 and this season is in second place on the money list behind Miguel Angel Jiménez. “While players behind me turn 50,” Cink recently told reporters at the Champions event in St. Louis, “these are players who have had power as one of their top priorities in their game for their entire career, and now they will just bring it forward.
Comes stew? It’s already here!
On the PGA Tour in 2020, Cink was on average “only” 295 Yards van Tee. Then he tweeted his attack angle, added more attic to his driver and started paying attention to biomechanics. Voila: 304-305 Yards became his norm, along with the 175 km / h or more ball rate that he still benefits today. This is Pro Golf in 2025, but the seeds for this approach were planted years ago. “It was more, I think the technology we have learned how we can benefit, such as the launch monitors and all data and optimization,” Cink of his Prime said. “We have all learned to won the tee; we have learned how important it is to push your ball a little further the fairway. In principle, every 10 meters is a tenth of a stroke. That is a bit like giving it away for free, if you can hit it 10 meters further.”
Padraig Harrington thinks in the same way. His obsession to become faster has led him to train at tournaments with a backup driver in case his fluctuations at high speed result in a cracked face. Harrington says he clocked ball speeds in the high 180S, and in 2024 his average driving distance on the Champions tour was a fleshy 308 yards.
Oh, and that guy Cink and Harrington looked up on the PGA Tour all those years? You might also see him bombing on the Champions Tour next year. Tiger Woods has not yet revealed his intentions for competitive senior Golf, but he is eligible if he would turn 50 on December 30, and could use a cart in the tournament game, would certainly appeal to him. Ernie Els urged Woods to pin it. That also applies to Jack Nicklaus, who went so far to predict that Woods would win half of the Champions events in which he plays. And yes, Woods, despite his physical limitations, can still get it outside. During the TGL season 2025, his average of the bullet rate was 174.7 mph with a maximum speed of 181.2.
Other bombers also crawl at 50. Charley Hoffman, who can still move his ball, touches half a century at the end of 2026. Four -time tour winner Ryan Palmer also comes close; He turns 50 in 2027. After a rocky 2025 season at LIV, long-term Henrik Stenson, who is 49, is confronted with relegation; If he loses his Liv spot, who knows where he could end – perhaps, at some point, launch rockets during the Champions Tour.
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