Do you use Metres or Yards ?

[Lord Tyrion]

I'd have no issue if golf courses went metric but I understand that the cost of changing is probably prohibitive. There'd be a bit of mental converting for a while and then that would soon stop.

I use metres at work, my brain can see metres much easier.

Has there ever been talk of it changing in the UK?

 

[Voyager EMH]

I'd have no issue if golf courses went metric but I understand that the cost of changing is probably prohibitive. There'd be a bit of mental converting for a while and then that would soon stop.

I use metres at work, my brain can see metres much easier.

Has there ever been talk of it changing in the UK?

Lots of talking about it late 1960s and early 1970s.
It was considered that it all might become inevitable one way or another.

We managed to change to 100 pennies in a pound and got weather temperature on the telly changed to Centigrade (Celsius), but there was great resistance to weights, lengths and capacity.

We have ended up with a mish-mash that makes little sense at times.
I buy things in the supermarket that are 227 grams. Young people are surely finding this very odd.
Petrol is sold in litres, but we still calculate miles per gallon.
Kilometres per litre anyone?

I weighed in at 73 kilos today.
That's 161 pounds to an American.

 

[Mandofred]

I weighed in at 73 kilos today.
That's 161 pounds to an American.

I used to weigh 161lbs... I'm American....I've gotten used to C instead of F.....but I don't think I will ever convert to meters instead of inches/feet. If they changed all the courses to metric...it wouldn't bother me. It would likely just take a few practice sessions to get my club distances set in my head.

 

[Slab]

Do the guys using yards know (or even realise) how much you're missing out?

 

[Backache]

Do the guys using yards know (or even realise) how much you're missing out?

Nah I've been fitted and told to keep using yards I hit it further.

 

[D-S]

All our course signage is in yards, the scorecards are in yards, the courses are known by their yardage (65, 63, 60, 57 and 53), the sprinkler head distances are yards, we have 150 yard markers and the bronze permanent markers have yardage on them so it would be a pain and costly to change.

 

[jim8flog]

Do the guys using yards know (or even realise) how much you're missing out?

Do not worry according to most ladies most men overestimate what 5 inches is.

 

[AussieKB]

I remember an Aussie Pro who said he could pace off a 100 yards to a few feet.....
When I first went to England I loved the cards that had a course map on them as well,
otherwise it was me trying to pace off, which was not good.

Eyesight was very good back then so I did manage though.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Yards. The way I was taught and the way all my club yardages were worked out. Everything such as scorecards and markers are in yards

 

[kp17]

Yeah always yards. I use metres in work and could probably pace out say 5 metres closer than 20 yards but could tell you what club I hit from every possible yardage. Sore head stuff when on courses with markers in metres trying to work out.

 

[3 jabber]

Yards obviously. Who is going to say they hit their 8 iron 150 when they can say they hit it 165!

 

[harpo_72]

Game was invented in yards .. beer comes in pints .. it’s an insult to the game by using metric

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I hate going to courses that measure in metres. Seems a faff especially on par 3s working out a "proper" yardage

 

[D-S]

I hate going to courses that measure in metres. Seems a faff especially on par 3s working out a "proper" yardage

Are any courses, in areas where typically Imperial measures are in place, ever measured exclusively in metres? I have never seen this.
Or is your hatred directed at countries who use the metric systemm?

 

[harpo_72]

Are any courses, in areas where typically Imperial measures are in place, ever measured exclusively in metres? I have never seen this.
Or is your hatred directed at countries who use the metric systemm?

Hatred is too strong a word. Metric works fine but the game is in imperial, have some respect for game

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Are any courses, in areas where typically Imperial measures are in place, ever measured exclusively in metres? I have never seen this.
Or is your hatred directed at countries who use the metric systemm?

A lot of the ones abroad are in metres but that's fine (if a faff converting) as that is their principle method of measurement, especially newer complexes

 

[Beezerk]

Work is always metric, golf in yards.

 

[D-S]

Hatred is too strong a word. Metric works fine but the game is in imperial, have some respect for game

I was just responding to his phrase “I hate going to courses that measure in metres.”

 

[3 jabber]

A lot of the ones abroad are in metres but that's fine (if a faff converting) as that is their principle method of measurement, especially newer complexes

Your laser measures in yards though so what's the problem?

 

[Slab]

Hatred is too strong a word. Metric works fine but the game is in imperial, have some respect for game

Hmm google says imperial only came in the 1800's in Britain. Golf was here way before that