Herbie
Tour Winner
You maybe right that most people dont hit 350yds but everyone is capable of it in the same way people who dont like ego usually have a bigger one. Im one who says he can and can! I chose not to as accuracy is non existant when I spank one, but if it goes fairly strait and lands on a firm fairway it will go 300 up to 360 being my max, measured by known course measurements and/or paces.I choose not to spank them very often and my norm is from 250 to 290 depending on conditions and size of fairway allowing more commitment. During one practice on a range where 300 was the edge of the range running into a farmers field I put 6 balls in a row in the field though not in the same place ( ooops is that ego?) lol.Almost everyone is capable its a matter of commitment and effort to get the distance, accuracy is what holds people back from trying,that and personal choice of how they play the game. Hitting a great long drive when needed is just as interesting and important as a great aproach shot or recovery from a bunker, Ive never heard much condemnation or ego comments about Tiger or Daley when they spank a long one.
I myself will advocate that hitting long drives is not always needed to make a good score, and aproach and finish are more important, but when someone is a big hitter and does it frequently well I am the first to congratulate and apreciate it, not condem it as some sort of ego trip. I have played long enough to notice that most golfers who are quick to poo poo anyone who suggests big hitting as some sort of ego trip is usually jelous, plain and simple. if I stated how many fantastic shots Ive taken to the green from difficult places with mid irons would it still be an ego issue? I doubt that would even raise an eyebrow and may even get me some praise.Raving about mid irons is just as ego motivating as any club in the bag is. EVERYONE who plays golf has stories to tell, some are fact and some may be a little dressed up as such, people who look endlessly for reason to doubt or criticise even to the lengths of stories about the movement of a 150 marker amongst other things is just plain envy. So everyone who hits 300+ and inc 350 must've measured it wrong????? Its amazing how people who hit long drives are incapable of accurate measurement in the eyes of some! I hit one at least 320 yesterday(ooops sorry ego again) I am definitely gonna have a go at the club concerned for having a hole indicated as 358 yds and a bunker marked at 30yds short of the green, making me think I had hit 320 or thereabouts when all the time the hole is 300 and I only hit 260
i once played in a comp with an old boy who only hit 230 max,that day I was hitting well and all this miserable bugger did the whole round was chunter under his breath that long hitting isnt anything to write home about, and even sneered when I went in the rough,and called me lucky when I hit a par 5 in two and he took 3 to get 10yds short of the green, he was just a miserable oldy (there are enough to go round in golf)he was a high handicapper who saw his chances in the stableford slowly disappear in the wake of someone playing well off a single figure and scoring well to boot. I like this site so far but I dont like the reality of golf attitudes raising the ugly side of the game,critics,insults and egos bigger than mine will ever be are likely to drive me away as I have little time for it and this is my last comment about it!
