Seven amazing stats you need to know to wrap-up the 2015-16 PGA Tour season

From Rory McIlroy's driver to Jasn Day's putter, here are some pretty wild numbers

By Kyle Porter

Oct 12, 2016 at 3:21 pm ET • 2 min read

The 2015-16 PGA Tour season is over, and the new campaign is upon us this week with the Safeway Open. But I wanted to take one last look at some of the craziest stats of 2015-16 before moving on.

Jason Day had the best putting season recorded (since 2004), Adam Scott had the best ball-striking season ever (non-Tiger edition), and Rory McIlroy is still a boss off the tee. Let's take a look at seven of the best stats from last season.

1. Adam Scott's strokes gained on approaches was a joke: Scott gained 1.49 shots per round on the rest of the field on his approach shots, which is the best non-Tiger Woods number of the strokes-gained era (2004-16). This essentially measures how good you are at ball-striking and hitting it close to the pin with your irons. Scott is as good as there is in the game today.

Tiger Woods (2006): 2.07 strokes gained per round
Tiger Woods (2007): 1.65
Tiger Woods (2013-14): 1.53
Adam Scott (2015-16): 1.49

2. Jordan Spieth was a (much) better putter in 2015-16 than 2014-15: Who would have thought that? Spieth gained .758 strokes per round on the field in 2015-16 compared to .571 in the 2014-15 season. He was second on the PGA Tour in 2015-16 compared to ninth the previous season. Spieth's real struggle was in ball-striking. He went from No. 11 to No. 87 in strokes gained on his approach shots from his two-major season to 2015-16.

3. Dustin Johnson's wedge game was on point all year: Consider that Dustin Johnson finished No. 4 on the PGA Tour from 50-125 yards away in proximity to the hole. Last year, he finished No. 53. The year before that, he finished No. 80. It gets worse from there. His wedge play all year was world class, and it's the reason he's your PGA Tour Player of the Year.

4. Rory McIlroy is the best driver of the golf ball of all time: There have been seven seasons in which a golfer has gained over a stroke a round off the tee (this is based on distance plus accuracy). McIlroy now has three of them. He topped Johnson this season 1.23 to 1.12. Nobody else was over one, and and only one other golfer (Bubba Watson) was over .75.

5. Jason Day's putter was the best weapon of the year (and in the last decade): We already discussed this, but Day had an outrageously good putting season. The best of anyone since 2004.

6. Justin Thomas hit the longest drive of the year: There were eight drives over 400 yards in the 2015-16 season. Thomas hit the longest one with this 414-yard beauty at the Bridgestone Invitational in July. "It was the hardest I've probably ever hit a drive," Thomas told Golfweek.

7. Ten players made every putt from three feet: You know how we always talk about how pros never miss three-foot putts? Well, 10 of them literally did not miss a three-foot putt in the 2015-16 season. The best of the bunch was Ryan Palmer, who was 829 for 829 from three feet. The worst? Rory Sabbatini, who made 412 of 420 (98.1 percent). Also, the best streak without a three-putt was Adam Hadwin, who went 27 events between three-putts. Insane.