Glossary

What every stat on OTIS Golf actually means.

Adjusted share: How much of the rating's weight came from rounds whose field strength was known and adjusted for. Below 100%, the remainder used the round's raw SG unadjusted — disclosed, never guessed.
Adjusted true SG: Skill rating from published per-round strokes gained: each measured round is adjusted for the strength of the field it was earned against, recent rounds count more (180-day half-life over a 2-year window), and thin samples are shrunk toward the tour average. Higher is better; +2 means about two strokes per round better than an average tour player.A disclosed model over published SG — see the methodology page. Players under 12 measured rounds are not rated at all rather than rated on noise.
Baseline: The player's average score per round over the trailing 12 months — their own recent norm.Raw scores, stroke-play events only.
Bent scoring: Average round score at courses with bentgrass greens — lower is better.Raw stroke-play round scores at bentgrass-green courses; shown only with a meaningful sample.
Bermuda scoring: Average round score at courses with bermudagrass greens — lower is better. A grouped tendency across every bermuda-green round played, not one venue.Raw stroke-play round scores at bermuda-green courses; shown only with a meaningful sample of rounds.
Birdies per Round: Average number of birdies made per round.
Course Fit: How well their game suits THIS venue — approach, off the tee, around the green, putting and past results here, weighted by what the course rewards.Course archetype is derived from yardage-per-par and scoring difficulty; venues with no hosting history score neutral on the history component.
Cuts Made: Tournaments where the player survived the halfway cut and played the weekend.
Dist. from Fairway Edge: Average distance from the fairway's edge on missed fairways — how badly a miss misses. A precision signal on tight, penal courses.Shown in feet; measured rounds only.
Distance (All Drives): Average length of every tee shot with a driver-type club, not just the two measured holes per round — the truest picture of raw power.Laser-measured events only.
Driving Accuracy: Percentage of tee shots that finish in the fairway.Par 4s and 5s only.
Driving Distance: Average drive length in yards, measured on two holes per round chosen to face opposite wind directions.Measured drives only, not every tee shot.
Earnings: Official prize money for the season, in US dollars.Excludes bonus pools like the Comcast Business Top 10.
Estimated salary: What DraftKings is likely to charge for the player this week, before the real salaries post: the field is ordered by the model's expected fantasy points and read off a salary curve — a dearer top when the favourite is dominant, a floor at the bottom — fitted from past DraftKings slates of the same kind of field. Rounded to $100.An estimate of DraftKings' price, never their number. Marked EST wherever it shows; a pasted salary file replaces it. Graded against the real slate in the DFS record.
Events: Official tournaments entered that season.
FedExCup Rank: Season-long points-race position that decides who reaches the playoffs and the TOUR Championship.
Finish: Final position in the event. T = tied, CUT = missed the cut, W/D = withdrew, DQ = disqualified.
Form: Recent form as a difficulty-adjusted strokes-gained figure: each recent round scored against how hard it actually played, with the latest starts weighted most and thin samples pulled toward the field average.Backed out of published round scores via a round-difficulty regression (no per-round SG feed is required); small-sample players are shrunk toward an average-tour-player baseline so noise can't spike them.
Form rounds: How many measured rounds the player's Form score is built from. More rounds = a more trustworthy form estimate; a handful of rounds is flagged as thin.The form layer shrinks thin-sample players toward the field average, so a low count already pulls the score toward neutral rather than swinging on noise.
GIR from Fairway: Greens in regulation when the approach comes from the fairway — iron play with a clean lie.
GIR from Rough: Greens in regulation when the approach comes from anywhere other than the fairway. The gap to the fairway number shows how much a missed fairway really costs this player.
Good Drive %: Tee shots that hit the fairway OR still produced a green in regulation from the miss. Fairer than fairways-hit: missing by a foot into light rough isn't punished.
Greens in Regulation: Percentage of holes where the ball is on the green with at least two strokes left for par (e.g. on a par 4, on the green in 2).
Leverage: The player's share of the field's projected points divided by their share of projected ownership. Above 1, the crowd is expected to roster them less than their projection earns; below 1, more.A reading device built from two model outputs, so it inherits both their errors. It is not a recommendation.
Measured Rounds: How many shot-tracked rounds the season's Strokes Gained figures are built from — the sample size behind the SG numbers.Opposite-field and some international events aren't shot-tracked, so this is usually fewer than total rounds played.
Model: This week's overall score, 0-100. Blends True Skill (45%), Course Fit (35%) and Form (20%). It ranks the field for this venue — it is not a win probability.Players with little measured data are scored partly from defaults and carry a LOW DATA flag; treat those scores with suspicion.
Par-3 Scoring: Average score on par-3 holes (3.00 is even par).
Par-4 Scoring: Average score on par-4 holes (4.00 is even par).
Par-5 Scoring: Average score on par-5 holes, where pros make their biggest gains (tour average is under par).
Poa scoring: Average round score at courses with poa annua greens (the bumpy, late-day west-coast surface) — lower is better.Raw stroke-play round scores at poa-green courses; shown only with a meaningful sample.
Projected ownership: The share of lineups in a large DraftKings classic contest expected to roster the player, in percent. Driven by price first — the crowd rosters the dear, strong players, on a curve by price rank that is the same whatever the field size — then win chance and points per dollar; little-known players are discounted. Sums to 600% across the field because a lineup holds six golfers.A model of the crowd, not a measurement. Weights were calibrated on one contest's real ownership and one week's provider consensus, and are refitted from real contest ownership once enough weeks are stored; graded against real ownership in the DFS record.
Proximity <100 yds: Average distance to the hole on approach shots from inside 100 yards — pure wedge scoring range.Shown in feet; measured rounds only.
Proximity 100-125: Average distance to the hole on approaches from 100-125 yards out.Shown in feet; measured rounds only.
Proximity 125-150: Average distance to the hole on approaches from 125-150 yards — short-iron territory.Shown in feet; measured rounds only.
Proximity 150-175: Average distance to the hole on approaches from 150-175 yards — mid-iron territory.Shown in feet; measured rounds only.
Proximity 175-200: Average distance to the hole on approaches from 175-200 yards. Elite play here is a big edge on courses with long par 4s.Shown in feet; measured rounds only.
Proximity 200+: Average distance to the hole on approaches from beyond 200 yards — long irons and woods.Shown in feet; measured rounds only.
Putting 25+ ft: Make percentage from beyond 25 feet. Low for everyone — lag quality matters more than makes here.
Putting 3-5 ft: Make percentage from 3-5 feet — the knee-knocker par-save range where misses sting most.
Putting 5-10 ft: Make percentage from 5-10 feet — the birdie zone that separates hot putting weeks from cold ones.
Putts per Round: Average putts per round. Beware: missing lots of greens lowers this number, so pair it with SG: Putting.
Recent scoring average: Average score per round over the selected window of recent events (last 5 or last 10). Unadjusted for field strength or course difficulty — a 68 at a birdie-fest counts the same as a 68 at a U.S. Open.Raw scores, stroke-play events only. The course-fit model's "Form" is different: difficulty-adjusted strokes gained. They are not comparable.
Scoring Average: Average score per round, adjusted for the field's scoring each week so hard weeks don't punish a player unfairly.The adjusted (not raw) scoring average.
Scrambling: How often a player still makes par or better after missing the green in regulation.
Scrambling from Rough: Par-or-better saves when the missed green left the ball in the rough.
Scrambling from Sand: Par-or-better saves out of greenside bunkers.
Season Status: Whether the season is finished. In-progress season numbers change weekly until the playoffs end.
SG: Approach: Strokes gained on shots into the green, including par-3 tee shots but not short-game shots. The stat most predictive of sustained elite play.Strokes Gained needs shot-tracked rounds; opposite-field and some international events are excluded, and a season shows no SG until a player logs enough measured rounds.
SG: Around the Green: Strokes gained on shots within 30 yards of the edge of the green: chips, pitches, and bunker play.Strokes Gained needs shot-tracked rounds; opposite-field and some international events are excluded, and a season shows no SG until a player logs enough measured rounds.
SG: Off the Tee: Strokes gained from tee shots on par 4s and 5s. Rewards long AND accurate driving, not just distance.Strokes Gained needs shot-tracked rounds; opposite-field and some international events are excluded, and a season shows no SG until a player logs enough measured rounds.
SG: Putting: Strokes gained on the greens, accounting for how hard each putt's distance is. The noisiest SG category year to year.Strokes Gained needs shot-tracked rounds; opposite-field and some international events are excluded, and a season shows no SG until a player logs enough measured rounds.
SG: Tee-to-Green: Strokes gained everywhere except the putting green: off the tee, approach and around the green combined. Isolates ball-striking from putting.The published tee-to-green figure (SG: Off the Tee + Approach + Around the Green). Strokes Gained needs shot-tracked rounds; opposite-field and some international events are excluded, and a season shows no SG until a player logs enough measured rounds.
SG: Total: Strokes gained on the field per round, all parts of the game combined. +2.0 means beating the field average by two strokes every round.Strokes Gained needs shot-tracked rounds; opposite-field and some international events are excluded, and a season shows no SG until a player logs enough measured rounds.
Top 10s: Finishes of 10th place or better, ties included.
Total Driving: Driving-distance rank plus driving-accuracy rank combined — lower is better. Rewards being long AND straight, punishing one-dimensional drivers.
Trend: Baseline minus form: positive means the player is beating their own 12-month norm — trending hot.A score-based proxy, not Strokes Gained — per-round SG is not published at usable granularity.
True Skill: How good the player is, regardless of this course: a difficulty-adjusted rating from two seasons of round scores, weighted toward the last year and shrunk toward the field for thin samples, ranked against the rest of this week's field.Built from published round scores, so it exists for anyone with recent tour rounds. A player with no rounds in the last two seasons gets a below-median default and a LOW DATA flag.
Venue rounds: How many rounds the player has previously played at this week's course — the evidence behind the History part of Course Fit. 0 means no history here.With no venue history the History component falls back to a slightly-below-average default rather than being guessed.
Wins: Official tour victories that season.
World Ranking: Official World Golf Ranking position, a rolling two-year points average across global tours.Former members off the ranking show no value.