At Decade's End: PGA Tour Winners Get Noticeably Younger

Nice work here by Robopz to use the end of decade opening to look at average PGA Tour winner age from 2000-2009 vs. 2010-2019. Give him a follow for doing all of this math.

This should not be a recipe to turn pro at 18 or to give up the game at 40, but will please those pushing players to peak younger. I am a bit surprised given the falloff in 40+ winners given how much better players age, particularly as major championships have not been won by many youngsters. But other factors like bloated bank accounts, faster greens and the distance chase easily offset the Pilates and chia seed lunches.

Comparison of the prior decade to this decade by age shows the shift to younger winners more dramatically. A big falloff in the # of age 40+ winners, a moderate drop among the age 30's group, but a huge increase in the under-30 winners pic.twitter.com/NBzzyszGvS

— Robopz (@Robopz) December 1, 2019