{"id":244376,"date":"2025-10-27T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244376\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:42:14","slug":"michael-brennan-outperformed-every-pga-tour-pro-for-the-entire-year-in-this-stat-during-bank-of-utah-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244376\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Brennan outperformed every PGA Tour pro for the entire YEAR in this stat during Bank of Utah win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Brennan made one of the fastest moves ever into the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking with his win at the Bank of Utah Championship on Sunday. And it was in large part to him swinging fast with one club in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Those watching saw Brennan bombing his way all around Black Desert Resort, averaging a stunning 351 yards per poke. But his accuracy was just as impressive. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: Korn Ferry Tour shares hilarious Michael Brennan graphic<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Brennan hit 34 of 35 fairways during his four-shot victory in his first PGA Tour start as a pro. Granted, they were some wide fairways, but still, he had the Big Dog working as well as anyone on tour this year. In fact, it was actually the best driving performance of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The PGA Tour\u2019s Sean Martin noted that Brennan\u2019s 7.6 strokes gained off the tee was the highest on tour this season. And it wasn\u2019t particularly close.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Utah winner Michael Brennan tops the list of best single-week Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee performances in 2025:<\/p>\n<p>1. Michael Brennan (Utah), +7.6<br \/>2. Thorbjornsen (ISCO), +7.2<br \/>3. Woodland (Valero), +6.9<br \/>4. DeChambeau (PGA), +6.7<br \/>5. Rico Hoey (PLAYERS), +6.6<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T2ga3CJtnK\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/T2ga3CJtnK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Martin (@PGATOURSMartin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOURSMartin\/status\/1982760869575729438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s made even more remarkable when you consider this was the 23-year-old\u2019s only PGA Tour start this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fairways are pretty forgiving, pretty wide,\u201d Brennan told reporters after. \u201cThere is no rough, so it\u2019s either going to be fairway or rocks basically. So just had one of those weeks where my driver went pretty straight and was able to send it and let it go and felt very confident over the driver all week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Considering what an advantage that club gave Brennan all week, that might be the understatement of year. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: Here\u2019s the prize money payout for the Bank of Utah Championship<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published on golfdigest.com<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Brennan made one of the fastest moves ever into the top 50 in the Official World Golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-244376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}