AG Long drive championship...Who fancies a go?

[mchacker]

Is it a bring your own clubs affair? If not, I'd only go and put a sky dint on a posh driver and end up out of pocket

Does say you can use your own if desired:thup: I'm less concerned about winning and more interested in seeing my numbers with my own bat

 

[ScienceBoy]

My best belt was about 260 today, wonder if I have a shot

 

[fundy]

I'll be going at some point today to give it a go.

Did it not go way left on their one then Sam

 

[masterosouffle]

Got my longest out to 278, fingers crossed!

 

[DaveM]

Don't get it how can people hit drivers around 300yrds but have a handicap of 20 or over. I'm confused!.

 

[Region3]

Don't get it how can people hit drivers around 300yrds but have a handicap of 20 or over. I'm confused!.

Because hitting the ball a long way, and putting a score together, are completely different skills.

 

[gazr99]

Don't get it how can people hit drivers around 300yrds but have a handicap of 20 or over. I'm confused!.

Who knows what their next shot will be like or how straight it is

 

[MendieGK]

It's got the crappy thing that has 5 lights below the ball, it's awful. It's annoyed me because on GC2/Trackman I am usually up around 310-315 carry.

The longest drive I hit on their crappy tracker was 296. I murdered my last drive and would have expected it to be up near 335 but it reckoned 275 carry.

I may still have a chance to win the store prize but won't qualify

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Because hitting the ball a long way, and putting a score together, are completely different skills.

Because hitting 300 yards has no guarantee the ball will stay on the golf course. Plenty of high handicappers at my place can give it a bash out there but many will reload or be playing out of thick rough. Not sure they correlate scoring and throttling back to do so

 

[gazr99]

Annoyingly the tracker wasn't working today so will nip there tomorrow morning and have a go

 

[adiemel]

well my best 210 is not going to trouble too many people so I am not bothering

 

[HarryMonk]

Don't think I'll bother, don't want to MonkIt

 

[gazr99]

Was quite interesting for me. Machine wasn't working yesterday, so went to a different store this morning only to find out their tracking machine wasn't working as well!

However luckily they are based at a golf club so have the luxury of using a driving range, which the guy said they will judge the distance by eye. Unfortunately this driving range a rather big steep hill starting at about 200-220 yards and I tend to carry the ball 230-240.

Overall the guy thought the best drive was around 240, fortunately at the time I was the only who had entered at the store so should win a store prize!

 

[mchacker]

Got one out to 277 after losing a bit through grabbing the ground before the ball. Wouldn't have mattered no matter, there was a 345 yard hit in already

 

[drew83]

After a shocking day driving Sunday, I went to AG Lakeside Thurrock yesterday. We had already been all around Ikea & Lakeside itself (a big shopping centre for those that don't know).

I took hold of a new taylormade aeroburner 10.5* in regular. took a 1st swing, & panicked when I heard the crack of the club on ball & ball on screen as had never used an indoor screen thing before.

That went 180ish carry rolled out to 190ish.

Still nervous of hitting something in the room (lights, wall etc) I hit my 2nd. 200 carry 213 finish. swing speed of 83mph. ball speed of 130ish mph.

thought "just leather it". but something in the back of my mind was worried about hitting something on the back swing. still hit an 85pmh swing, carried 205ish rolled to 219.

Wasn't too happy with it, as the leader had a 285 yard. But after sunday being so bad, me usually using a +1inch 12* & being done from the day's shopping took some comfort that I would have done better.

i am not expecting to win anything other than maybe a consellation prize for being so short!


3rd shot,

 

[KhalJimbo]

I had a go at my local AG on Saturday after picking up my new trolley.

Had a go on the new Callaway XR driver (really nice driver) and ended up with a best of 227. Said to the guy I don't stand a chance at anything as really can't drive well and the longest drive for that day was 288!

 

[MendieGK]

Just got confirmed that I won the longest drive at my store now I can go on my rampage about the inconsistencies of the tracking across store!

 

[TheCaddie]

Just got confirmed that I won the longest drive at my store now I can go on my rampage about the inconsistencies of the tracking across store!

Nice. What distance did you win with?

 

[drew83]

Just got confirmed that I won the longest drive at my store now I can go on my rampage about the inconsistencies of the tracking across store!

Well done! What store was it?

 

[MendieGK]

296 (which is not correct) - Swindon.
Oh well, nice new watch coming my way, can't complain