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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
I think he was longer than ever, at least up until his knee injury.
I just looked up his driving distance over the years. Back in 1993, when he was still an amatuer, he played in some PGA Tour events. His average driving distance was 272.3 yards. In 1994, it was 277.3 yards. In 1995, it was 298.5 yards. From 1996 to 2000, he was at 302.8, 294.8, 296.3, 293.1, and 298. In 2005, he was up to 316.1. In 2006, he was at 306.4. In 2007 he was at 302.4.
Some of the added distance could be due to better equipment but I certainly think he has gotten longer over the years up until his knee injury. In 2005 and 2006, he was hitting the ball 30-40 yards longer than he was back in 1994 when he was 19 years old.
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avg driving distance is irrelavant ----he missess/missed too many fairways for it to be any kind of accurate nummer , when he missess the ball stops in the rough immediatley with no roll , gotta look at fred funk who hits 80% of the fairways to see avg driving distance (also i think it's only done on 1 or 2 holes on each nine and those holes could be 3 woods or 2 irons off the tee for woods)
go back and watch some of the old events from the 90's he was driving the ball over 330 yrds back then when he was straight and his ball landed in the fairway and ran another 35 yrds because of the firm fairways. when he hit it into the rough the ball stops worse than a 2/5 fav does in the stretch at beualh park
i will say equipment has helped me hit the ball at least 25-30 yrds further with the driver ---- antirtust can attest that i'm not on hgh but rather byk's barbecue my waistline has expaneded from 34 to 38 over the last 15 yrs , i a m not as strong as i was in my late 20's , yet i hit the driver 25 yrds further when i hit it in the fairway