10 More Yards or 10% More Accuracy

[Imurg]

^^^^^^^^^^
Is the math really the point here!

(perhaps the OP will clarify) but I saw it much more simply... given the choice what would you prefer, an increase in accuracy or distance?

(no slide-rule required)

It would have been if no numbers had been included.

Ask the question " Accuracy or Distance" and well over 90% would say accuracy
Enter number into the equation and things start to change....

 

[Robobum]

Given the choice between the red dots and the yellow dots, I'd take the yellow dots all day every day.

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Using Bob's example - if the yellow dots are your normal drives, an extra 10yds on those lines (ignoring the ditch) mean that only the one will be in the trees - I'd take that.

If you work it back from the green........when do you become confident of hitting the green?? Ignoring the joke answers .....

....7iron?

So (for example purpose) say your 7i goes 150, if you increase your driving distance from 240 to 250 - you can start to hit GIR for any 400yd par 4??

Give me the yards all day - even in the rough

 

[Tiger]

Darren definitely in the hit it find it club

I was just replying to the thread based on the question of if you have option of being either 10% longer or 10% more accurate which would you choose. Read a book recently by a maths professor that demonstrated that on the whole being longer (I.e taking driver over hybrid) marginally improved your score.

 

[Tiger]

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This is what I was getting at.

Apologies for not doing the math to the nth degree in einstein type fashion.

The simpleness really was to see who would prefer the distance over accuracy and so far the pole shows accuracy would be the preferred thing for most golfers wanting to shoot better scores

But the problem is the parameters of either. If it's laser accurate that's different from a proportional improvement. The other problem is that your OP was aimed at manufacturers needing to prioritise equipment that provides better accuracy my challenge to that is where you hit it and what shape you hit it with is primarily down to the 'Indian' not the 'bow & arrow'
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[HawkeyeMS]

Ah, but if that 10cm off the fairway is 30m from the middle of the fairway, (your original aim point), then with a 10% accuracy improvement you'd be 3m nearer the middle of the fairway which puts your ball 2.90m from the rough..........................gimme the extra accuracy.

Slime.

How do you know he was aiming for the middle of the fairway?

I'd still take consistency

 

[Slime]

How do you know he was aiming for the middle of the fairway?

I'd still take consistency

He PM'd me, he didn't want information of such a sensitive nature out in the public domain.

Slime.