The PGA Tour’s 10 Biggest Disappointments of 2021/22
By Bill Felber
T4. Bo Hoag
How much worse? (0.978 strokes)
Hoag is a mid-30s journeyman in his third season as a PGA Tour regular. Hoping for a breakthrough year, his season instead turned into a lengthy nightmare.
Hoag qualified for 20 starts but only made seven cuts and won less than a quarter-million, about one-fourth of what he earned in 2020-21. After finishing 85th in scoring average in 2020-21, he fell all the way to 180th of 191 this season.
That left Hoag at 129th in the final FedEx Cup points list and nearly cost him his Tour card.
The ‘why?’ of Hoag’s season-to-season decline was multi-faceted as his chart shows.
2020-21 2021-22 Change
Off The Tee 0.141 -0.237 -0.378
Approaches 0.246 -0.306 -0.552
Around the Green -0.011 -0.201 -0.190
Putting -0.225 -0.122 0.103
In the two most determinant aspects of Strokes Gained – Off The Tee and Approaches – Hoag’s game collapsed. His driving game, previously a modest asset, cost him nearly a quarter stroke against the field average this past season.
Then to make matters worse, Hoag utterly lost a decent approach game, to the tune of more than a half-stroke difference from 2021 to 2022.
Considering that Hoag’s work around and on the greens was never a strength, his failures off the tee and approaching the green too often left him on the outside of the Friday cut line.