Driving Accuracy And 2010 Money

Despite what the numbers have been telling us in Golf World each week--that the groove rule change hasn't changed a thing and PGA Tour players are actually scrambling better and driving it slightly more accurately--reader Ken notes that the USGA may have something to hang their blue blazers on.

You may recall that the mantra from Far Hills has been something along the lines of "the correlation between driving-accuracy rank and money winning rank on the PGA Tour is very low."

Now it's early, it's not much, in fact it's downright miniscule for May, but here is a possible difference over last year and has the potential to support the above mantra:

Right now, nine of the top 20 in driving accuracy are also in the top 50 on the money list: (accuracy ranking/money list)

Brian Gay 1/39
Heath Slocum 3/40
Tim Clark 4/4
Jim Furyk 7/3
Ben Crane 11/7
Zach Johnson 13/16
Scott Verplank 15/43
Jason Bohn 17/18
Matt Kuchar 19/11

Last year, for the season there were five (accuracy/money list)

Tim Clark 3/37
Brian Gay 7/13
Zach Johnson 8/4
Scott Verplank 9/34
Heath Slocum 11/36