Another week of tournament golf in the books, and as you might expect there was some movement in the stats. Most notably, Ian Poulter and Paul Casey both shot into the Top 10 in season money. Casey also had an excellent week for GIR%, rocketing to second in that category from nowhere. At this moment, the numbers and charts are confusing to me. That in itself is no revelation…it seems the older I get, the more I find myself in that state. At this early stage of the season, there just doesn’t seem to be any correlation. For example, GIR% and Average Money List Rank for GIR% are both way up over last year. If the Groove Rule is working, you would expect the latter to be true, but certainly not the former. Driving Distance and Driving Accuracy both are tracking pretty close to last year’s season ending totals. But the numbers for Total Driving, while way up, the Average Money List Rank is down quite a bit. Bottom line is it’s still too early to make any leaps here, but I think eventually something is going to drop out of our analysis. Thanks for stopping by, and stay tuned. Don’t forget to tell somebody, please. Peace.