How many golf stats do they really track on the PGA Tour

I read a story yesterday about the amazing amount of golf statistics that the PGA tour is keeping during each golf tournament each and every week of the season. Due to technology and tons of volunteers, it’s amazing the volume of data that they can track and keep.

The PGA utilizes a technology called ShotLink. Simply stated the technology uses laser distance measuring and PDA’s to record every single shot by every pro golfer in a tournament. And they do this for every tournament. This data is recorded realtime and transmitted to the tour statisticians, media, and other sources who gobble up this mountain of golf statistics.
So an army of volunteers (around 10,000 each year) walk the course with each golfer and mark each shot and record all the attributes about it. These volunteers are typically just regular golfers who take vacation time and volunteer. In return they get to go to the golf tournaments and see the pro golfers do their thing. Not a bad way to spend a “golf vacation” is it?
The way that this data is collected (by volunteers walking the course) may be one of the better kept secrets on the Tour. Otherwise, every amateur golfer in America might be fighting to be a volunteer.
Most of us know that there are tons of statistics kept for the game of golf But how much detail that they track is sitll mind boggling. For example: Tour players holed 52.5% of their putts from 9 feet. Tour players averaged 17 feet, 4 inches from the hole when the ball was inside 100 yards. And it goes on and on.
And I am sure that the golfers are probably using this data to work with their swing coaches on their individual golf games. Amazing what technology can do, isn’t it?