Masters 2026: I found a weird stat that could predict the Masters winner
The winner of the 2026 Masters could reveal itself in the practice range data.
Who is going to win the 2026 Masters? The answer may be on the driving range. Last year at the 2025 Masters, the tournament began tracking all players' data from the driving range.
It was fascinating on multiple levels, and they're doing it again ahead of the 2026 contest. I asked Tommy Fleetwood what we should learn from that data, and here's what he said: "I would be really interested to track everyone and see if there's a correlation in something, with success and not success with how they practiced... what were people's routines or how they did it, and see like where they finished, like if there was a correlation between what was successful and what was not.
" Adam Glanzman I can't predict the future this week but I can go back and see what happened at the Players Championship last month. The PGA Tour also tracked practice data from the driving range there. So I looked for correlations between what they did on the range, and their Strokes Gained during the tournament.
It wasn't definitive, but two interesting things popped up—one good, and one red flag. The Good Sign 👍 If players spend 30 percent or more of their range balls hitting wedge shots between 60-100 yards, that was generally a good sign. At the Players this correlated with higher Strokes Gained approach shots and around the green—about +0.