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Brandel Chamblee sparks debate after showing decline in putting make percentage on PGA Tour

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Brandel Chamblee’s latest tweet on X is taking off, with the Golf Channel analyst presenting an interesting study that shows a decline in putting make percentage in today’s game compared to twenty years ago.

Presented matter of factly, Chamblee posted the following numbers:

That tweet has been met with plenty of responses from golf fans, theorising just why the make percentage is down today from 20 years ago, Here are some responses to the numbers:

What’s your theory behind the slight decrease in make percentage on tour, WRXers?

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Gianni is the Managing Editor at GolfWRX. He can be contacted at gianni@golfwrx.com

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16 Comments

  1. Chuck

    Feb 24, 2026 at 1:44 pm

    The comment by Randy Schrader @GolfnRandy is too modest. He is clearly on to the most obvious answer of all; in response to ever-increasing technology-induced distance, course setups on tour demand ever-more punitive greens and green speeds. It is that simple. I expect that players are every bit as good at putting as they were 20 years ago. Probably better. But they are playing on greens that have been made more difficult, as a last-stand defense of golf courses against the onslaught of distance.
    I just don’t understand how this isn’t the first, last, best and only explanation.
    I’m really tempted to say, “End of story. Full stop.” But I always hate it when debate opponents do that. So, give me your best shot; tell me why I’m wrong about any of this.

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  2. Jessie

    Feb 23, 2026 at 7:02 am

    EGOS will lower PPRs for all Tour golfers. It’s the future.

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  3. Jessie

    Feb 23, 2026 at 7:02 am

    EGOS will lower PPRs for all Tour golfers. It’s the future..

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  4. Darrel

    Feb 21, 2026 at 1:38 pm

    “Paralysis by analysis”, the players today spend an excruciating amount of time looking at the line from every different angle and the garbage aim point trampling of every green (not respecting players that follow them). The only thing they don’t do is borough into the hole to look from there.

    Long story short, they look at the put for so long that they don’t trust themselves and their first look, so they tighten up and no longer putt with feel. “Trust the force Luke!!”

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  5. The Truth Network

    Feb 21, 2026 at 6:34 am

    The players today are soft and depend too much on their “team”. There is no ownership anymore and everything is everyone else’s fault. Including this batch of players “inept” putting. They suck and the stats prove it.

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  6. Joey5Picks

    Feb 20, 2026 at 1:35 pm

    Those differences are unlikely to be statistically different. So essentially, the make rates are unchanged.

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  7. Josh

    Feb 20, 2026 at 11:54 am

    … Or maybe it’s just that in the last 20 years the Pro game has realized that statistical improvement and superiority over your peers starts at the Tee box and marginal strokes gained putting isn’t as likely to win you a tournament as Bomb and Gouging your way into 2-putts?

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  8. jwwjr

    Feb 20, 2026 at 10:41 am

    AimPoint. Most of the stomping around is near the hole, which a putt of any length has to roll through. If they weren’t allowing players to tap down spike marks now, AimPoint would be already banned. It still creates enough indentation around the hole to make a difference. Hopefully it will be banned soon.

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    • RM

      Feb 20, 2026 at 10:59 am

      I’m inclined to agree with this. Even a little rougher surface around the hole could explain it. Would be helpful to see the data for every year though.

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    • Noonan

      Feb 20, 2026 at 12:40 pm

      It’s the ‘volcano effect’ and it is a real thing formed around the cup by the afternoon/twilight rounds.

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  9. RAY NEESE

    Feb 20, 2026 at 9:37 am

    Yet every week they are shooting lower scores. Didn’t JR just break tournament record? Those guys are so good when they are on. I wish I could putt to their averages. I would love to see caddies out of picture on greens. JMO

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  10. Peter

    Feb 20, 2026 at 7:53 am

    He can post interesting content. I would love to see the same stats for LPGA, I think they are better putters.

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  11. Noonan

    Feb 19, 2026 at 4:29 pm

    It’s because caddies can’t line them up behind them anymore. And even AI insert faces/weighting, zero torque, ALL technology isn’t working as advertised either. Bunch of snake oil.

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  12. Kevbot

    Feb 19, 2026 at 3:30 pm

    Someone went down a rabbit hole one day and decided that in order to become a better putter people needed all these weird training aids/gadgets. That stuff was basically non-existent pre-2005. I blame it on the new age/ new school golf instructors who shove this down their young students’ throats. Also, putters themselves have been increasingly ugly and complicated with fat grips, graphite shafts, etc. and it’s confusing the heck out of people.

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  13. T

    Feb 19, 2026 at 11:30 am

    Greens TOO FAST, too slick
    Good putters went to LIV
    LOL

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  14. The Truth Network

    Feb 19, 2026 at 8:35 am

    Aim Point is going to go down as the biggest STAIN in the history of the game. It will be banned in the future.

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Scottie Scheffler leads the betting ahead of the second major championship of the year, with the World Number One a +345 favorite to get his hands on a second PGA Championship.

Rory McIlroy who won the Masters back in April is a +800 shot to complete half of the calendar slam at Aronimink Golf Club this week, while Jordan Spieth can be backed at +5900 to become a career grand slam winner.

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Scottie Scheffler +345 – (Check 0ut his WITB here)

Rory McIlroy +800 – (Check out his WITB here)

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  • Cameron Young +1500
  • Bryson DeChambeau +1700
  • Xander Schauffele +1850
  • Matt Fitzpatrick +1950
  • Ludvig Aberg +2000
  • Tommy Fleetwood +2600
  • Collin Morikawa +3500
  • Brooks Koepka +3900
  • Justin Rose +4300
  • Russell Henley +4600
  • Si Woo Kim +4700
  • Justin Thomas +4800
  • Robert MacIntyre +5300
  • Patrick Cantlay +5300
  • Viktor Hovland +5400
  • Tyrrell Hatton +5500
  • Jordan Spieth +5900
  • Sam Burns +6000
  • Hideki Matsuyama +6200
  • Adam Scott +6400
  • Rickie Fowler +7000
  • Chris Gotterup +7400
  • Patrick Reed +7400
  • Min Woo Lee +7800
  • Ben Griffin +8000
  • Sepp Straka +8400
  • Shane Lowry +9000
  • Akshay Bhatia +9200
  • Maverick McNealy +9200
  • Joaquin Niemann +9200
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  • Jason Day +9600
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  • Harris English +10500
  • Nicolai Hojgaard +11000
  • Gary Woodland +11000
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  • Michael Thorbjornsen +12000
  • Jacob Bridgeman +12000
  • Keegan Bradley +12500
  • Corey Conners +14000
  • Alex Fitzpatrick +15000
  • Sungjae Im +15500
  • Sahith Theegala +15500
  • Harry Hall +15500
  • Alex Noren +16000
  • Thomas Detry +16500
  • Marco Penge +16500
  • Kristoffer Reitan +17000
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70: Sam Stevens, $37,500

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