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The Carry Distance of the Clubs In Your Bag

Johnny Hack

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Just got done reading the post about "Distance Conciousness" and why we are so driven for more distance with our clubs and thought that the following could be interesting.
Truthful answers will help draw better conclusions for all.
List the True Distance (Carry)
Overall distance (with roll out on tee shots and fairway rolls)
and your handicap
and with enough responses draw your own conclusions as to the corillation between distance and scoring average.

My Average Distances with full swings are as follows:

Driver (carry) 230-245 yds (roll out) 250-270 yds
3Wood (carry) 215-230 yds (roll out) 225-240 yds
18* Hybrid (carry) 190-195 (roll out) 200-215
4 Iron (carry) 180-185
5 Iron (carry) 170-175
6 Iron (carry) 160-165
7 Iron (carry) 150-155
8 Iron (carry) 138-143
9 Iron (carry) 125-133
PW (carry) 110-115
GW52* (carry)98-103
SW56* (carry) 80-90
LW60* (carry) 55-65

HCP fluctuates between 6 and 8
 
I love these threads
 
Mr. Satchmo said:
I love these threads
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Do you really? bc personally I don't.

To the OP, may I ask how you know the carry distances of all your clubs, more so mid/long irons thru driver? Serious question, because I'm not sure how people go about getting that down...
 
dtak84 said:
Do you really? bc personally I don't.

To the OP, may I ask how you know the carry distances of all your clubs, more so mid/long irons thru driver? Serious question, because I'm not sure how people go about getting that down...
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I know that I can hit my 7 iron 150 consistently except when I hit it fat, I basically base my distances around that, in my experience, I hit my driver about 100 yards further than my 7 iron and I know I can hit the green with my gap wedge from 100 yards away so everything else is just guesswork around that
 
dtak84 said:
Do you really? bc personally I don't.

To the OP, may I ask how you know the carry distances of all your clubs, more so mid/long irons thru driver? Serious question, because I'm not sure how people go about getting that down...
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GPS on an empty course, find a constant yardage like the front edge of a green and go from there.
 
Dtak, you could gps a flag... Use you golf clubs to you know, hit a golf ball at it. If you get close enough times to flags of the same distance, reckon you could get a distance.

No offense but if you don't like these threads don't read them. No reason to put the OP on defensive.

OP. There are a lot of threads on this already. I'm using my poor blackberry or I'd search and merge for you.

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LOL..there are soooo many threads like this; however, I THINK this is the first one that has requested the full monty. I always enjoy reading both the banter and the facts as they see fit to list. Internet vs course is always up for debate, but at least the OP went all out with the list. To each his own in how they post, but I like to see the dream team come alive and live vicariously through them :golf2:.
 
Driver (carry) 225-235 yds (roll out) 240-260 yds
3Wood (carry) don't carry one at the moment
19.5* Hybrid (carry) 190-195 (roll out) 200-210
23* Hybrid (carry) 180-185
5 Iron (carry) 168-173
6 Iron (carry) 158-165
7 Iron (carry) 148-153
8 Iron (carry) 137-141
9 Iron (carry) 122-130
PW (carry) 108-113
GW52* (carry)92-100
SW56* (carry) 80-90

HCP around 10
 
Carry distance with Woods is approximately 25 yards short of Total Distance. Carry distance with hybrids is 10-15 yards short of total distance.

Total Distance:

Driver - 230-240
5 Wood - 210

3 hybrid - 195
4 hybrid - 185
5 hybrid - 175

6 iron - 160
7 iron - 150
8 iron - 140
9 iron - 130
PW - 115
UW - 100
SW - 75
 
starting to doubt my distances now, working on a shorter more compact swing and seem to nwo be about a club shorter than before, but with better accuracy. Hoping to get the #'s dialed in before winter comes rolling around
 
Johnny Hack said:
Just got done reading the post about "Distance Conciousness" and why we are so driven for more distance with our clubs and thought that the following could be interesting.
Truthful answers will help draw better conclusions for all.
List the True Distance (Carry)
Overall distance (with roll out on tee shots and fairway rolls)
and your handicap
and with enough responses draw your own conclusions as to the corillation between distance and scoring average.

My Average Distances with full swings are as follows:

Driver (carry) 230-245 yds (roll out) 250-270 yds
3Wood (carry) 215-230 yds (roll out) 225-240 yds
18* Hybrid (carry) 190-195 (roll out) 200-215
4 Iron (carry) 180-185
5 Iron (carry) 170-175
6 Iron (carry) 160-165
7 Iron (carry) 150-155
8 Iron (carry) 138-143
9 Iron (carry) 125-133
PW (carry) 110-115
GW52* (carry)98-103
SW56* (carry) 80-90
LW60* (carry) 55-65

HCP fluctuates between 6 and 8
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These are my numbers exactly. I am 45 yrs old and in good shape. I feel like I should be hitting longer but I am consistant with my shots so I am finally giving up on hitting for distance.
 
Driver 420
3 wood 400
1h 380
3h 340
4i 300
5i 290
6i 280
7i 270
8i 260
9i 250
PW 240
50* 230
54* 220
My handicap is a +12
 
OK so all this was about was so people could see the corrilation between distance and scoring,
that may have been a better title for this post,
but it has nothing to do with the corrilation between distance and the size of anyones manhood.
It was also meant to make people who respond really think about the difference between how far that they truthfully carry the ball and how far teir total distance is with each club.

"To the OP, may I ask how you know the carry distances of all your clubs, more so mid/long irons thru driver? Serious question, because I'm not sure how people go about getting that down... "

My personal distances have been aquired usining my Bushnell Tour V2 Pro over a period of time and looking at ball marks on par 3 greens and both ball marks in wetter fairways and lasering back to tee boxes from ball position in the fairways.
 
TheIcemann said:
Driver 420
3 wood 400
1h 380
3h 340
4i 300
5i 290
6i 280
7i 270
8i 260
9i 250
PW 240
50* 230
54* 220
My handicap is a +12
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Awesome.
 
TheIcemann said:
Driver 420
3 wood 400
1h 380
3h 340
4i 300
5i 290
6i 280
7i 270
8i 260
9i 250
PW 240
50* 230
54* 220
My handicap is a +12
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I'm assuming these numbers are with a 25mph wind straight in your face? Otherwise they seem a bit short to me.
 
Well, did not take long for this thread to take the expected path that we have seen over the last 20 minutes.

I wish something good would ever come out of a thread such as this but I have failed to see it.
 
I think the OP has a pretty good reason behind the thread, so let's try not to be dicks.
 
My Average Distances with full swings are as follows:

Driver (carry) 200-230yds (roll out) 210-240
3Wood (carry) 190-210yds (roll out) 200-220+ yds
20° Hybrid (carry) 185-190
23° Hybrid (carry) 175-180
26° Hybrd Iron (carry) 165-170
6 Iron (carry) 150-155
7 Iron (carry) 140-145
8 Iron (carry) 130-135
9 Iron (carry) 120-125
PW (carry) 110-115
49° wedge Don't take full shots. It's most often my 85 yard club.
53° Don't take full shots. It's most often my 75 yard club.
57° Don't take full shots. It's most often my 65 yard club.

This is as of today. As you can see, weak like a cripple. Based on experience on the course mixed with time on a launch monitor. My distance are pretty inconsistent based on how I'm swinging and they fluctuate up and down all the time, especially with the driver and 3 wood. I cover the 85-115 yard gap via the 8,9, PW via partial swings.

HCP fluctuates between is 13.4 GHIN as of today.
 
Thanks mcook77 and Hawk, dont worry about the negatives posted, I sure dont as I knew there would be some and just discount them. This was just meant to be a post that made you say Hmmmm....
 
I think that the correlation between distance and skill isn't always there, assuming people are playing the right tee boxes. However, it think it's easier to get good at the game if you hit the ball farther.
 
Here is my best guess based on markers at the range with full rollout

Driver: 255-260 (265-270 rollout)
5 wood: 215 (220-225 rollout)
4 iron: 195
5 iron: 185
6 iron 175
7 iron: 165
8 iron: 155
9 iron: 145
PW: 125-130
GW: 100
SW: 75-80
 
Driver: 250
4 wood: 235
3 hybrid: 215
4 iron: 200
5 iron: 190
6 iron: 180
7 iron: 170
8 iron: 155
9 iron: 145
PW: 135
50*: 110
56*: 95

These are estimates since I rarely GPS shots. I've also lost some distance lately due to my back bothering me and my shafts being a bit too strong for me.

Edit: I have no official handicap. I average in the high 80s lately.
 
Wow, last year I could have done all of these without any thought, but with the final swing changes, I've added more distance to my clubs. Add to that my rarity in actually hitting some of the long irons on my home course, but here goes.

Driver - 255-260(carry) 290 (roll out)
3wood 15* - 245 (carry) 260 (roll out)
3iron 20* - 210 (carry) 225 (roll out)
4iron 23* - 200 (carry) 215 (roll out)
5iron 26* - 190 (carry) 210 (roll out)
6iron 30* - 185 (carry) 200 (roll out)
7iron 34* - 162 (carry)
8iron 38* - 150 (carry)
9iron 42* - 138 (carry)
PW 47* - 120 (carry)
SW 56* - 100 (carry)

Handicap is probably 16-18 over the past month, but it has been as good as 12 this year. A very inconsistent year for me.

I'll also add that 1) some of these distances are estimated based upon known clubs and how much the loft should alter distance. Also, I get pretty incredible rollout at my home course, mostly because it is rock hard and there really isn't grass anymore.

~Rock
 
Haha. I said it too but MCook77 and Hawk carry more weight :)



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