What is 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.
How it's calculated
Driving statistics come from on-course measurement. Distance is recorded on designated holes chosen to balance wind direction, so it reflects normal driving rather than downwind bombs; accuracy and fairway-miss figures are recorded on every drive. OTIS restates the published season figures rather than deriving its own.
How to read it
Higher is longer. It covers every driver-type tee shot, so it is more representative of normal play but more affected by which holes and conditions a player faced.
What it doesn't say
Distance and accuracy trade against each other, and neither alone says whether a player drives the ball well — that is what strokes gained off the tee is for. Fairway percentage in particular is a blunt instrument: it counts a ball one foot into the rough the same as one in the trees, which is precisely why the distance-from-fairway-edge figure exists alongside it. Course setup also moves these numbers year to year.
OTIS tracks this stat across 15 PGA Tour seasons — see it for every player, or read how the numbers are sourced in the methodology.