Arccos 2025 Driving Distance and Accuracy Report

Recently Arccos* released their latest Driving Distance and Accuracy report. I used Google’s new Notebook LLM to analyze the report and created AI generated podcast using the data. It did a fantastic job of analyzing the report and adding a significant amount of dialogue considering there was not a lot of text. I was curious to see how it handled something with lots of charts and data. It looks like the podcast only relied on statistics from the slides without any charts. The most interesting part was it focused on driving distance compared to accuracy as you get older. I would not have gone this route if I were creating the podcast, however, after looking at the report again, I can understand why it went this way. I didn’t instruct it to focus on anything specific so it created the most logical theme.

Click THIS for a link to the report and here is the overview it generated: This 2025 edition of the Arccos Annual Driving Distance Report analyzes golf performance data from over 4 million rounds played in 2024 by Arccos members globally. The report focuses on driver tee shots on par 4s and 5s, detailing driving distance and accuracy based on gender, age, and handicap. Key findings indicate relatively stable average driving distances for men and women since 2018, a clear correlation between age and both distance and accuracy (younger golfers hit further but less accurately), and that lower handicap golfers tend to be both longer and more accurate. The report also includes an appendix tracing men's driving distance from 2018 to 2024 across different age groups, and information about Arccos and their methodology, which relies on real-world, non-normalized data.

Side note: I recently started using the Stack System for swing speed training. I highly recommend checking it out. I’m up about 10mph in about 6 weeks. Now I just need to work on translating it to the course.