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Monthly Poll 1: on average, how far do you hit the ball with driver?
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pbrown7582
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wheres the forum 350 carry section????
brave poll this.......
brave poll this.......
pokerjoke
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On average
ger147
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rosecott
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If Carlsberg did forum polls...........
I'm the (so far) lone 170-200 voter
Maybe the ball doesn't travel so far in the Indian Ocean.
mcbroon
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Not in Scotland there isn't.
I'd say my average is about 250 so I went for 250-275 because...well...this is the forum.
Beezerk
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Don't usually hit driver so can't really answer properly. When I use it at the range though they get to near the 250 target but mostly to the right :thup:
HawkeyeMS
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Seriously? Do you have any idea what you have started? 
User20205
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Seriously? Do you have any idea what you have started?
I voted 275 + because I have/am * a massive knob!!!! (Delete as appropriate) :thup:
Slab
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lol I've told myself that its because you guys get the benefit of the magnetic pull from the north pole which adds 40 yards to your drives
Airlie_Andy
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Using "average" has never made sense to me. I defy anyone to know what there actual average driver distance is as they would need to know the distance of every drive over a sustained period of time to actually know. It also doesn't really mean anything. Take an example of hitting 10 drives. You hit 9 drives well with 250 yards carry and then top the last one 10 yards. All of a sudden your "average" drive is 226 yards. Does that mean you wouldn't take on a carry of 230 yards because your average is 226 but 9 times out of 10 you would make the carry by 20 yards?
Conditions also play a huge part in how far the ball travels so does average distance refer to average conditions as well?
When asked what my average driver is all I can do is give the distance I'd expect a decently hit drive to travel in fairly calm conditions into a fairway that doesn't plug. If I hit it really well it will go further if I don't hit it well it will go shorter. Of all the clubs in the bag the driver has by far the largest variance in distance so average is just meaningless in my opinion.
Now I've said all that I've gone with the 250-275 option.
This honestly wasn't supposed to be a rant haha
Conditions also play a huge part in how far the ball travels so does average distance refer to average conditions as well?
When asked what my average driver is all I can do is give the distance I'd expect a decently hit drive to travel in fairly calm conditions into a fairway that doesn't plug. If I hit it really well it will go further if I don't hit it well it will go shorter. Of all the clubs in the bag the driver has by far the largest variance in distance so average is just meaningless in my opinion.
Now I've said all that I've gone with the 250-275 option.
This honestly wasn't supposed to be a rant haha
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Sounds pretty much what I would call the average drive.
duncan mackie
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:thup:
FairwayDodger
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Using the Airlie_Andy reckoning, I'd probably go for the top end of the 200-225 yards group. Decent strikes go further but that's probably a reasonable average.
As everyone says, it really depends. On Sunday I hit one about 170 yards and then coming back the other way on the next hole 300 yards..... guess which way the wind was blowing!
As everyone says, it really depends. On Sunday I hit one about 170 yards and then coming back the other way on the next hole 300 yards..... guess which way the wind was blowing!
pokerjoke
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Not taken as a rant,well put imo.
To be honest these polls go onto the forum page,this one will be wasted space,purely because
its a poll that shows nothing,apart from people don't understand averages.
sawtooth
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250-275 typically.
Rooter
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i will back you up on that! for one of the slowest backswings I have seen, you don't half hit the ball a long way!!
medwayjon
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250-275 average
But its not how far, its where it finishes that counts
But its not how far, its where it finishes that counts
JCW
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I would say 250 to 275 range , I like to who are the 275 plus guys , I rather be straight and long and in the rubbish never to be seen again ..............EYG
shewy
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200-225,I would say I am a short if straight hitter though,I used to think my drives were 240ish, gps brought me back to reality.
