What are your average distances (carry) ?

[SimonC]

Time after time there has got to be some totally $hit shots from you big hitters. I only CARRY about 225 with my driver and I play off 5. Played saturdays medal in windy conditions, got it round in 76 and I would be lucky to hit one over 260...downwind. Oh last week at Dodgers place...the 18th 500 yards par 5. I flush my drive, flush my 5 wood just short, hit the pin with my 3rd, one putt for a 4...bang. Oh, that was down wind.

Maybe we need the stats to show how much the hole is cut in length........not a 260 yrd drive straight right or left, leaving 250 yards to a 400 yard hole. There is some bull on this site.

I too play off 5 but I guarantee I can carry the ball over 250 yards. Why do you find it so hard to believe? If I had my own trackman launch monitor I'd happily put a video up to prove it as I'm sure a few more people on here would. Take a look at EZprophet's driver swing video in his sig and compare it to yours, there is a huge difference in the clubhead speed between them. Granted there are a lot of higher handicap golfers who think they hit the ball further than they do. But I have a skycaddie and I've been on lots of launch monitors and on every one the carry has been over 250 as I'm sure EZprophet has.

 

[Dodger]

Time after time there has got to be some totally $hit shots from you big hitters. I only CARRY about 225 with my driver and I play off 5. Played saturdays medal in windy conditions, got it round in 76 and I would be lucky to hit one over 260...downwind. Oh last week at Dodgers place...the 18th 500 yards par 5. I flush my drive, flush my 5 wood just short, hit the pin with my 3rd, one putt for a 4...bang. Oh, that was down wind.

Maybe we need the stats to show how much the hole is cut in length........not a 260 yrd drive straight right or left, leaving 250 yards to a 400 yard hole. There is some bull on this site.

Peashooter.

Young Screwback is as long as many and he'll tell you his average is probably around 250 to 260....total.

Tommo is correct,there is some serious bullshit spouted on here.

 

[Tommo21]

Simon I'm sure you can...........but a 20hc CARRY 250....AVERAGE. If he's a 20HC and thats average then he's got to be carrying 270 280 at times to get that average with that HC. BS

 

[SimonC]

Simon I'm sure you can...........but a 20hc CARRY 250....AVERAGE. If he's a 20HC and thats average then he's got to be carrying 270 280 at times to get that average with that HC. BS

totally agree with you on that, I don't know any or have ever seen a high handicap golfer who carries it over 250. I'm not trying to willy wave here by the way. Distance isn't everything i can vouch for that.

 

[Billysboots]

Me too 250 yards isn't long. I averaged 277 yards last year when I measured all my drives with skycaddie. Some were below 250 but I had plenty over 300 yards.

I'm not disputing that for one moment, but this thread is about average CARRY not average driving length. Most of our longest drives are in the summer months when the fairways are firm allowing lots of roll.

How many 270+ yard drives do you hit when the ground is soaking wet? I'm willing to bet not many, if any.

Sorry, but I stand by what I said earlier in the thread. There are plus figure golfers at my place who hit the ball a country mile, and I have NEVER seen any of them carry the ball out of the back of our range which, end to end, measures around 260 yards. If I have never seen that sort of carry, it must follow that their AVERAGE carry, even if they are consistent ball strikers, is probably less than 250.

And yet there are a whole host of mid handicap golfers on here who claim to be able to do what some of the longest single digit or plus handicap golfers at our place can't?

It's all nonsense. Or as another member put it, willy waving!

 

[CrapHacker]

It's all nonsense. Or as another member put it, willy waving!

Ok, you want willy waving....

I can carry my 3H about 175 yds

I can carry my 2H about 165 yds

I can carry my 4W about 180 yards

I can carry my driver about 185 yards.










I have a very short willy

 

[HawkeyeMS]

How do you measure carry with a skycaddie? I'm sure there are a few who can carry a drive 250yds but anyone who says they can measure carry distance accurately with a skycaddie this time of year is just making it up as it's impossible too tell accurately where the ball lands unless you're consistently carrying over a hazard that requires a 250 carry.

 

[Snelly]

It is wrong to say that there are not people on this forum who average over 250 yards with their driver.

However it is fair to say that there won't be many.

I have no idea what my average is but I would be surprised if it was not more than 250. That said, I am not sure how this question is framed. If this is what is your average distance off the tee on par 3 and 4 holes then that is different to what your average distance is with a driver.

I don't hit my driver that often during a round. I would rather be in the right position with a 3 wood or 2H instead.

However, when I do get my driver out, it would be unusual to be less than 250 yards I would say. And to do that, I am swinging within myself, certainly not at full belt.


Big picture view from me though is as per my previous post in this thread, namely that carry distances are irrelevant as a comparative in golf. That is what handicaps are for.

And in terms of willy waving, it all seems like good fun and I don't mind reading it. I would back myself to be top 5 in a longest drive comp for the forum! Let's arrange it!

A day of distance ranking on a range that results in a league table will put the issue of how far everyone suggests they do or actually does hit it, to bed!

 

[SimonC]

How do you measure carry with a skycaddie? I'm sure there are a few who can carry a drive 250yds but anyone who says they can measure carry distance accurately with a skycaddie this time of year is just making it up as it's impossible too tell accurately where the ball lands unless you're consistently carrying over a hazard that requires a 250 carry.

Thats the only way really. Our 18th hole has a couple of severe upslopes on it and when you hit one of them the ball either stays where it is or it rolls back a little so you can measure the carry on that hole. I did this on Wednesday and it was 267 through the air with the wind accross and very slightly into.

 

[SimonC]

Me too 250 yards isn't long. I averaged 277 yards last year when I measured all my drives with skycaddie. Some were below 250 but I had plenty over 300 yards.

I'm not disputing that for one moment, but this thread is about average CARRY not average driving length. Most of our longest drives are in the summer months when the fairways are firm allowing lots of roll.

How many 270+ yard drives do you hit when the ground is soaking wet? I'm willing to bet not many, if any.

Sorry, but I stand by what I said earlier in the thread. There are plus figure golfers at my place who hit the ball a country mile, and I have NEVER seen any of them carry the ball out of the back of our range which, end to end, measures around 260 yards. If I have never seen that sort of carry, it must follow that their AVERAGE carry, even if they are consistent ball strikers, is probably less than 250.

And yet there are a whole host of mid handicap golfers on here who claim to be able to do what some of the longest single digit or plus handicap golfers at our place can't?

It's all nonsense. Or as another member put it, willy waving!

Really? They can't carry it 250 off plus figures. They must be using 80% golf balls at the range then. As I've previously stated I've been on trackman and had plenty of 250+ carries and up to 280 at the ping fitting centre at Gainsborough when there was no wind. Trackman doesn't lie, it tracks the ball unlike some launch monitors which take the spin rate, launch abs ball speed numbers and calculate the carry.

 

[Billysboots]

Really? They can't carry it 250 off plus figures.

I'm not saying they can't - I'm saying I haven't seen it, so I doubt it's a regular occurrence. As such, their AVERAGE carry is unlikely to be 250 yards.

Using a hazard as a marker is indeed a good guide, and we have the ideal hazard on our 14th where there is a ditch crossing the fairway at 253 yards on a hole which itself only measures 349 yards off the whites, probably 15 yards less from the daily tee.

The big hitters only ever pull driver from the bag to try and carry the hazard when there is a stiff following wind. Whilst accepting there is a strategy to playing the hole, as there is a bunker short right, with a really strong following wind and firm fairways the green is reachable off the tee (I know because I have done it a couple of times).

On a calm day it is very rare for even the longer hitters to take the ditch on, and that would tend to suggest that if they do not feel they are likely with a well struck shot to carry a ditch 250 yards away, their AVERAGE carry is not 250 yards! If their average carry was 250 yards then I would expect to see at least some take it on.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

At the end of the day there are some that definitely can, some that probably do, some that think they can and a lot of us who don't care if they can hit it 250+ yards average. For me I'll take 230 total and straight (sometimes) and then use my shots to plot my way round as best I can. I know I am a short hitter and I am happy to accept my fallability and so bow at the feet of all you he men regularly bombing pro carry distances

 

[Region3]

On a calm day it is very rare for even the longer hitters to take the ditch on, and that would tend to suggest that if they do not feel they are likely with a well struck shot to carry a ditch 250 yards away, their AVERAGE carry is not 250 yards! If their average carry was 250 yards then I would expect to see at least some take it on.

If their average is 250, I think it's safe to assume that half are below and half above 250.
I wouldn't expect a good player (when it matters) to take a shot on they've only a 50% chance of pulling off.

 

[Region3]

And in terms of willy waving, it all seems like good fun and I don't mind reading it. I would back myself to be top 5 in a longest drive comp for the forum! Let's arrange it!

A day of distance ranking on a range that results in a league table will put the issue of how far everyone suggests they do or actually does hit it, to bed!

I'll enter it if it's based on yds / lb

 

[Snelly]

If we do yards to lbs, my money is on you all the way!