10 More Yards or 10% More Accuracy

10 Yards Longer or 10% Accuracy Increase

  • 10 Yards Longer

    Votes: 9 14.8%

  • 10% More accuracy

    Votes: 52 85.2%
  • Total voters
    61
duncan mackie said:
So I ask again - please define 'accuracy' for the purposes of this question.
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I correctly or incorrectly took it to be Fairways hit , as per my earlier post i dont think 10 yards is alot so id go for the accuracy .. taking some/most courses would have 3 or 4 par 3's it leaves 14 (1.4) 15 (1.5, rounded up golf wise to 2) drivable holes ,

id take an extra 1 or 2 fairways hit per round every round ,
 
bladeplayer said:
I correctly or incorrectly took it to be Fairways hit , as per my earlier post i dont think 10 yards is alot so id go for the accuracy .. taking some/most courses would have 3 or 4 par 3's it leaves 14 (1.4) 15 (1.5, rounded up golf wise to 2) drivable holes ,

id take an extra 1 or 2 fairways hit per round every round ,
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To save me having to redefine the whole thread... This is it in a nutshell...
 
My driving is pretty decent these days and I hit most fairways unless I am having a bad day, so the extra yardage for me please.
 
duncan mackie said:
it's not at all 'obvious' thank you - and your post confirms that rather well.

the club is an inanimate object (just to save you posting the definition - "Lacking the quality or ability of motion" so it is almost by definition incapable of being inaccurate.
It will always hit the ball where you aim it, it's got neither the ability to make a concious decision to hit it somewhere else, nor the capability to do so if it did have such an ability.

So I ask again - please define 'accuracy' for the purposes of this question.
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I'd be interested you learn your definition........
 
Fader said:
To save me having to redefine the whole thread... This is it in a nutshell...
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well you clearly don't need that as you already have a large number of people wanting something that has no meaning!

I ask as much as anything because those same people would be the first to start threads entitled 'TM - wtf?' and similar if TM's marketing department announced the '10% more accurate R2'. I hope you see that.

If you want to 'hit more fairways' the answer is inherently to hit the ball a shorter distance - for the same angular error (provided by the player!!!) you will hit the same size target more often; it's that simple.

The corollary is that if you hit any club further it becomes less accurate by that definition - even if the angular variation remains constant.

Then you have the relationship between angular variation and off-centre hits on the club face, and if you include distance variation from this too, you get some measure of forgiveness, which some might suggest is the most appropriate reflection of a club's accuracy.

Some, including me, would also include the ease with which the player can accurately align the club to the target line at address.

The thing I find most strange is how the manufacturer who has managed to offer the most to golfers wanting such choices, and been successful because of that in the view of many, is the one who seems to have triggered this topic???

Anyhow, I will take distance (in a driver) from the manufacturer, and see my Pro about the accuracy bit :cheers:
 
I'd rather hit position a with an accurate tee shot than, head off into the rough!

I'm more of an iron player than a woodsman, not too fussed on distance.
 
JustOne said:
...and you'd STILL be in the cabbage! :one:
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Oh, quite likely JO...
But 10% closer to my target isn't going to help.
What's the real difference between a 30ft putt and a 27ft putt......apart from the obvious...
Instead of missing a fairway by 10 yards I miss by 9......

10% more distance though, 250 up to 275 - that's worth having unless you go sideways.
 
18yds off line instead of 20 and I'll have the distance please.

10% on fairways hit only gives me an extra 0.5 per round so I'll still take the distance.

Give me 2 more fairways per round and we have a deal :)
 
Siren said:
This.

No good hitting it 280 yards oob
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But your 10% more accuracy still probably won't keep the ball in bounds from a 250 yard shot.

Just say you have to hit your shot 30 yards left of the fairway and then OB
Will missing the fairway by 27 yards make much difference? Obviously it could but my bet is it would still be OB.
 
I am probably one of the shortest hitters on here (average about 235-240) but I would still take 10% accurtacy over another 10% distance. According to SS2 my FIR for 2012 was 48% so I am not even hitting one in every 2. It is an area that needs work although a lot of those misses are still in the first cut of semi so not quite as bad as the numbers suggest
 
duncan mackie said:
well you clearly don't need that as you already have a large number of people wanting something that has no meaning!

I ask as much as anything because those same people would be the first to start threads entitled 'TM - wtf?' and similar if TM's marketing department announced the '10% more accurate R2'. I hope you see that.

If you want to 'hit more fairways' the answer is inherently to hit the ball a shorter distance - for the same angular error (provided by the player!!!) you will hit the same size target more often; it's that simple.

The corollary is that if you hit any club further it becomes less accurate by that definition - even if the angular variation remains constant.

Then you have the relationship between angular variation and off-centre hits on the club face, and if you include distance variation from this too, you get some measure of forgiveness, which some might suggest is the most appropriate reflection of a club's accuracy.

Some, including me, would also include the ease with which the player can accurately align the club to the target line at address.

The thing I find most strange is how the manufacturer who has managed to offer the most to golfers wanting such choices, and been successful because of that in the view of many, is the one who seems to have triggered this topic???

Anyhow, I will take distance (in a driver) from the manufacturer, and see my Pro about the accuracy bit :cheers:
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Duncan , ive read this a few times & not realy sure what you mean .. i realy enjoy your posts & gain as much as others from your knowledge & help ..
Origionaly the OP was just wondering which you would prefer if you could have 1 or the other ? so does it realy matter if it has real meaning or not ? he was wondering , so he asked ..

Im not sure what you mean by saying if you want to hit more fairways hit the ball shorter , surely it would be more help to learn to hit it better rather than shorter ..

Please forgive my ignorance as i have no idea what you mean by

"for the same angular error (provided by the player!!!) you will hit the same size target more often; it's that simple."

OR

Then you have the relationship between angular variation and off-centre hits on the club face, and if you include distance variation from this too, you get some measure of forgiveness, which some might suggest is the most appropriate reflection of a club's accuracy."

In this case i do think you are reading a bit more into it than was intended origionaly...
 
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