Lexi's Power & Where She'd Rank Against The Men

Lexi Thompson overpowered Donald Ross' 6,700 yard Monroe Golf Club in round one of the LPGA Championship, posting a 6-under 66 and she wasn't shy in noting the advantage she gained based on the LPGA Tour notes.

Off the course, she's also getting some great endorsement time in Puma ad campaigns, something noted in this piece by Randall Mell on the 19-year-old Dinah Shore winner's ideal place in life right now. And there was this, which caught my technophobic eye:

Thompson is the LPGA’s longest hitter, leading the tour in driving distance with an average of 271.2 yards per drive. With Monroe Golf Club’s generous fairways, Thompson pounded drivers into 10 of 14 fairways, leaving her mostly short irons into all the par 4s on a course playing long at 6,717 yards. She hit 16 greens in regulation.

For a little FYI on where Lexi's 271.2 would put here in a PGA Tour historical context...

4th in 1980
13th in 1985
19th in 1990
31st in 1995
T126th in 2000
197th in 2005
191st in 2010
T185th in 2014 (ahead of Mike Weir, Justin Leonard, Tim Clark and Paul Goydos!)

Wonderful leap backwards there from 1995 to 2000! Amazing what all that working out did for the men!