PGA Tour Driving stats dating from 1980 to now. Black highlighted section on the graph is the longest streak of continuous increases in consecutive years (1994-2006). On average, yearly increase was 0.83%, but in those years it was 2.3%..

Interesting to note major increase in Max in 2000's (Tiger, Daly, Club & Ball changes), with the subsequent "catch up" of min & average in 2010's. Same effect in 2010's to 2020, albeit much smaller sample size. Interested to see where that goes

What does this mean for performance? Meet the minimum standard physically, and let the technical, tactical & psychological preparation do the talking on a given day.