Kevin Na’s win at the Safeway Open marked the fourth win of his career, his third in his last 30 Tour starts. In the process he became the first player in PGA Tour history to win a full field event with negative strokes gained from tee-to-green (-0.09).
Per Justin Ray:
Kevin Na finished the Shriners Open with negative strokes gained tee to green for the week. He is the first player to win a PGA Tour event with negative strokes gained tee to green since Bill Haas at the 2011 Tour Championship.
— Justin Ray (@JustinRayGolf) October 7, 2019
Na is the first player to win a full-field PGA Tour event with negative strokes gained tee to green since the Tour began keeping the statistic 15 years ago.
— Justin Ray (@JustinRayGolf) October 7, 2019
What makes Na’s win even more impressive is the fact that he had a strokes gained putting total of 14.18. The majority of that came during the second and third round when he had 11.3 strokes gained putting!
Most strokes gained putting by PGA Tour winner (stat has been kept since 2004):
Kevin Na, '19 Shriners: 14.18
Michael Kim, '18 Deere: 13.51
Russell Henley: '17 Houston: 12.50
Adam Scott: '04 Booz Allen: 12.26— Justin Ray (@JustinRayGolf) October 7, 2019
Na made over 558 feet of putts total.
https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/1181022096840888320
His early strut on a lot of these is fire!
https://twitter.com/GolfChannel/status/1181004514234683393
