Struggling

[Region3]

I went to the course late enough that no-one would be teeing off the first with 20 balls, my 9 iron, all my wedges and my skycaddie.

I walked down the fairway to the distance away from the centre of the green that I thought I hit my 9 iron and hit balls until I had 10 on the green. I then used the 'mark' feature on my skycaddie, went to the green and repaired all the pitch marks, leaving a ball at each one.
When that was done I stood in the centre of the 10 balls and noted the distance from where I hit the balls from, according to skycaddie.

The it's just a case of repeating for each club, and for different 'part' swings.

Probably not the quickest way, but I'm happy now that I can rely on the distances, if I can reproduce the same 'part' swing.

 

[Robobum]

What did the greenkeeper say about the 10 divots all from the same spot??

 

[Region3]

It was more than 10 because it took me about 15 balls to hit the green 10 times.

I'd like to think my 'repaired' divots on the outside right edge of a left hand dog-leg wouldn't make too much difference to a hole that's probably played 700 times a week.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

When I was working out the distances for my clubs I paced out a distance using the SC and put a marker on the ground at say 125 and hit 10 balls with a nine iron at that. I discarded the rubbish ones and then took the shortest and longest to give an average and counted how many were on 125.

I have to be honest and say using a GPS is the only way you're going to get anything remotely accurate.

 

[bobmac]

my tip would be take a gap wedge and hit a full shot.

For shots under 100 yds?

Simple answer....learn the clockface drill

No need for that Bob

A perfectly reasonable suggestion

 

[Parmo]

my tip would be take a gap wedge and hit a full shot.

For shots under 100 yds?

Simple answer....learn the cockface drill

No need for that Bob