Club Yardages

[bobmac]

Memory. How hard can it be to remember 14 numbers?

When I played regularly, I had 9 yardages for each wedge, written on a bit of paper and sellotaped to the shaft just below the grip.

When I'm hitting full shots I think.....
Used to hit a 9.......better hit an 8
Used to hit a 6.......better hit an 5
etc
It's an age thing

 

[MendieGK]

Memory. Can't actually believe I'm reading some of the stuff ref having full and half shot distances written down etc.

You mean like most of the pros do? Yeah madness isn't it.

 

[MendieGK]

There was also an article in one of the magazines a little while ago where Justin Rose, had 3 yardages written on each of his wedges 1/2 3/4 1/1.

I spent about 3-4hours working out my yardages earlier this summer and did the same.

Guess what, my pitching massively improved.

Given what's being said about aiming for the green, it's largely what most sports psychologists argue AGAINST.

Bob rotella says that you should be aiming for a small mark on the hole when putting, as the smaller we can narrow our focus the better the results will be.

 

[MashieNiblick]

If you have to write down how far you each club because otherwise you can't remember then all I can say is......

you aren't paying often enough!

Interesting to see comments about doing things because it's what the Tour Pros do. If I was a Tour Pro I might do them too. But I'm not. I don't hit hundreds of balls a day out of the middle with a reliable consistent repeatable swing which I can vary at will to hit different distances so that I can shoot in the 60's on on tough but beautifully manicured, 7,000 yard courses with ultra fast greens.

 

[chrisd]

If you have to write down how far you each club because otherwise you can't remember then all I can say is......

you aren't paying often enough!

Interesting to see comments about doing things because it's what the Tour Pros do. If I was a Tour Pro I might do them too. But I'm not. I don't hit hundreds of balls a day out of the middle with a reliable consistent repeatable swing which I can vary at will to hit different distances so that I can shoot in the 60's on on tough but beautifully manicured, 7,000 yard courses with ultra fast greens.

But if you dud do them you might knock a couple of shots off your handicap!

 

[MashieNiblick]

But if you dud do them you might knock a couple of shots off your handicap!

If only!

Looking out of the window I will concede that spending the winter in Florida hitting 500 balls a day under the watchful eye of Butch Harmon would probably help.

 

[Craigg]

I'm looking to have a gaping session today

Good luck with that one then
You'll probably need cream afterwards!

 

[ruff-driver]

Good luck with that one then
You'll probably need cream afterwards!

 

[pokerjoke]

Pretty sure Rory marked his grip so he knew how much go grip down to take some yardage off.

Don't think he has actual yardage written on them. its you caddies job to know. :rofl:

This is true but its no different to writing them down,

One grip = 1 distance another grip is another so I suppose just another way of doing it.

 

[pokerjoke]

Their livelihood and golf being their career means they have to be as close to 100% correct as possible so that is, fair enough IMO. However, the likes of us hackers needing to know in that detail is silly IMO. No way someone playing off 19 can actually replicate a swing every time to play his (for example) 8 iron, 150 yards, every time. Knowing roughly is all we need. If I'm 150 yards out, my target is the green. In some cases that could differ front to back by 20 yards so I only roughly need to know a club that covers that distance. I wonder sometimes just how serious some on here take the game?! Also, playing the same course week in, week out, surely you'd learn what club from where you are, which club for the par 3's etc and adjust according to weather etc? Just my view. I could tell you my rough yardages per club now, if I could hit them to that +\- 10 yards, I'd be happy.

This will all depend on wether you want to stay a 19 handicapper.
To get lower you will have to do something different maybe become a better ball striker.
To then get to single figures a better putter.
Then to get to scratch those 2 plus a suberb short game.
Then when you are good at everything something else that makes you better than the rest.

If you go on your thinking why practice putting from 3ft surely pros no how to do a 3ft putt,I suppose they practice because they never want to miss from that distance ever.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

This will all depend on wether you want to stay a 19 handicapper.
To get lower you will have to do something different maybe become a better ball striker.
To then get to single figures a better putter.
Then to get to scratch those 2 plus a suberb short game.
Then when you are good at everything something else that makes you better than the rest.

If you go on your thinking why practice putting from 3ft surely pros no how to do a 3ft putt,I suppose they practice because they never want to miss from that distance ever.

Wise words. However you have to practice the right things.. Personally I can get the ball forward towards target most of the time so for me, 100 yards and in is my area of improvement as well as bunkers and putting. If I can get these better, even a small margin then I'm hoping it'll make a shot difference per round and that may be all I need for a cut or two. Sadly pitching and the shanks isn't a good starting point. Back to working at it

 

[richart]

Seem to remember a youtube Pro has the distance the club goes on the bottom, rather than a number. Assume it is for a perfect strike, though I would go with a skiny healy one, or perhaps a fat toey one.:mmm: