bradleywedge
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Top Tracer at the range?
Determining Your Club Distances
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Mandofred
Well-known member
Every time I practice on our practice ground I put out cones at 40-60-80-100 yards. I am pretty confident of the distances I hit with my wedges IFFFFFF I hit them decently. The distances on all the other clubs just get solved ON the course. I have tried putting out cones further than 120.....my eyes aren't good enough to accurately check the distances. Launch monitors are lying machines. Start thinking you are Hercules if you use them all the time.
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Not a bad shout although I question some of the data I get at times. If I was the OP and can't get to a practice ground with real balls I'd be looking to get to a range/pro and use a launch monitor
tobybarker
Active member
Believe me they don't, where we come from anyway!
SaintHacker
Journeyman Pro
I've been using the Taylormade app for a few weeks now. Its free, works beautifully on a watch, and it gives you the option of editing your round afterwards on your phone, and gives you more stats than you'll ever know what to do with
davidy233
Tour Rookie
Is the Links driving range/practice area open to the public again? (I know the teaching has resumed)
Springveldt
Well-known member
Doesn't have to be a driving range, you might find some courses now have "swing studio's" that you can rent out.
I have at least 4 places that I know of within 20 minutes drive of me and I live in an area that a lot of people would call "out in the sticks".
CountLippe
Active member
Use a GPS watch to measure how far each shot went during a round and which club you hit. You can then play with the information when you finished, ie quality of strike / lie / wind / abnormal roll.
You can then build up a database of what these variants do.
Its good to concentrate on how far 3 clubs go under various conditions say - wedge, 7iron & utility and work the other club yardages around this.
You can then build up a database of what these variants do.
Its good to concentrate on how far 3 clubs go under various conditions say - wedge, 7iron & utility and work the other club yardages around this.
Jimaroid
Journeyman Pro
I see they went into limited opening but not been down there to find out what that means in reality yet. Not much help, sorry.
davidy233
Tour Rookie
No prob - I might be in St Andrews this week so will have a look
Fabia999
Active member
At my club, it's quite hilly. It's hard to understand your true distance due to uphill/down hill. I use stats from the range, simulator and practice. I also take into account if I'm hitting up/down hill.
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
I think the simplistic answer is to hit the balls you use into a bay at a range/studio and let a monitor (assuming it is set sensibly) to give you the numbers. There are enough around these days
Jaco
Medal Winner
I have a simple range finder, a small Bushnell for about £90, and it has a ‘shot’ button to measure the distance from where you take a shot to where you walk to the ball. I would suggest that a rough enough guide is to measure a couple of good shots with a mid iron, then just add/subtract 10 yds per club. It has honestly improved my enjoyment of the game a lot.
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
I've got a cheap Suaoki rangefinder off AMazon https://threeoffthetee.blogspot.com/2016/12/suaoki-laser-rangefinder.html which does the job. You could easily measure as Jaco says but then also gives you a distance to the pin. Also if you go to a range it'll tell you exactly how far the markers are away which may not correspond to what it says in the bay
bigslice
Tour Winner
what do u use pn ure par 3s?
i worked out that i hit my 8 iron 150 yards ish. And going up and down my other clubs are 10 yards difference. so 2 iron 210 and pw 130
i worked out that i hit my 8 iron 150 yards ish. And going up and down my other clubs are 10 yards difference. so 2 iron 210 and pw 130
Jaco
Medal Winner
To be honest I’d like one of the laser rangefinders like that. The pro I had lessons with used one and the guys like Mark Crossfield On YouTube use them as well, but I feel a bit self conscious holding one up, especially as I’m a high handicapper. Even with the Bushnell I use, which is not much bigger than a pack of tic tacs , I just slip it out of my pocket surreptitiously And have a glance. Not as accurate obviously but good enough to add to the enjoyment. I can’t tell by eye if a green is 100 yds or 150, and my friends are the same.
