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In 1980, Dan Pohl led the PGA Tour in driving distance with a 274-yard average. The overall driving average on Tour that same year was a paltry 256 yards off the tee.
There isn’t a single PGA Tour Pro averaging less than 275 yards off the tee in 2020. The shortest hitter today is longer than the longest hitter in 1980. The average pro player, in 40 years of technology growth, has added 50 yards to their driver.
It's not all technology.
When I played college golf 30 years ago, there were zero guys out there built like Koepka or DJ. It was almost all average sized guys. And we had no workout program, OK St. started doing aerobics three times a week at that time but no weight training or the like. At 5'10" 145 lbs., I could hit it farther than nearly everybody on my D1 team.
So now we have world class athletes playing on the PGA Tour, guys that spend 2 hours a day in the gym getting stronger and faster. They also swing differently trying to get every yard out of it. Restricting the hip turn, snapping the lead leg, etc.
There should be zero issue with guys like Bryson building his body to hit it farther. Now if Cory Pavin started hitting it 300+........