Driving

Driving penalty rate

Share of eligible drives carrying at least one penalty stroke.

Unit

percentage

Direction

Lower is better

Minimum sample

5 eligible

Version

1.0.0

How Ringer calculates it

penalized driveseligible drives

Evidence rules

IncludedOnly current, confirmed shots assigned to this category with usable start and finish evidence.

ExcludedDrafts, voided or superseded revisions, non-strokes, unusable locations, and attempts missing a measurement required by this formula.

DenominatorThe number of eligible attempts after the stated exclusions—not every hole or every round by default.

Missing dataIf no eligible denominator remains, Ringer returns unavailable and displays “—”, never 0% or NaN.

Classification

Derived from eligible opening strokes on par 4s and par 5s. A drive is penalized when at least one linked rules event assigns one or more penalty strokes; the rate counts the drive once even if its penalty costs multiple strokes.

Sources and context

The R&A — Rules of Golf Definitionsrules terminology PGA TOUR — Official Statisticsindustry comparison

Provenance

Metric key: driving.penalty_rate
Calculation version: 1.0.0
Effective: September 4, 2026