For a three-year stretch from 2002-2005, Tiger Woods was downright deadly when putting from three feet or less.
During that time period, the 15-time major winner faced 1,540 putts from three feet and drained a ridiculous 1,536 of them. For those of you scoring at home, that’s better than 99.7 percent.
Woods, in many ways, is an anomaly. But how often do regular golf pros on the PGA tour miss putts? Golf.com analyzed the numbers to find the answer.
As it turns out, though Woods is slightly better than the norm, most pros make putts from three feet out when presented with them at a clip of about 99.4 percent.
At four feet, that percentage dips down to 91.43 percent and at five feet it drops down even farther than that to 80.72 percent.
From there, things really take a nosedive: six feet (70.21 percent), seven feet (60.6 percent), eight feet (52.86 percent), nine feet (46.38 percent), 10 feet (41.25 percent).
In case you were wondering, Tour players make their shots 5.45 percent of the time when putting from 25 feet away from the cup or farther.
“Yeah, I realize that “25+” is a bit vague, but that’s the way the Tour keeps their long-range stats,” according to Golf.com’s Either way, the chance of a Tour player making a bomb is most similar to the chance Albert Pujols, MLB’s active leader in career home runs, has of hitting one. Pujols has gone yard at a 6.18% clip over the course of his 650-homer career.”
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