The PGA Tour measures strokes gained in four different categories
In 2011, the PGA Tour introduced the Strokes Gained statistics, a method for measuring performance better than traditional statistics (greens in regulation, fairways hit...) because it compares a player's performance to the rest of the field and because it can isolate individual aspects of the game.
The PGA started measuring total Strokes Gained and also "Strokes Gained: putting", which measures the performance on the green of each player compared to the rest of the field.
Since 2016, the PGA has added a few more stats to understand how each player is performing compared to the rest of the field, which are:
As you would expected, the sum of the four categories is the total number of Strokes Gained.
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More info: Strokes gained: How it works
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