how far is your long game?

[itzzzberny]

Pretend your on a par 5 540 yards to pin.
conditions are no winds. the tee box,fairway and green are about level.
using only 2 strokes, starting from the tee box. how far can you go.
odviously,you cannot retee the ball on the 2nd stroke.

[FIJIGolf23]

Assuming I have two fairly solidly struck golf shots, I can get there in two strokes.

[ripsid]

On a good day I'm on, but usually I'm a 60* away.

SiD

[lamebums]

Pretend your on a par 5 540 yards to pin.

With two well done strokes I can reach almost any par five in two. Problem is of course, making two good strokes. Usually I'd be 30-50 yards away and probably off to the side.

[J_Bone]

On a good day, I'm on. But on most days I'm usually short by 20 yards or wide 20 yards.

[Elsfan]

Good day on, more then likely left or right.

[Shindig]

My usual Driver + 3-Wood totals to about 390 yards for me. There are par-4s I can't reach in two, much less par-5s. This gives me about 130 yards left on a 520-yard par-5, which is about a 6-iron (despite clubs mentioned in the poll). This is why I love the 475-yard par-5 at a course I play: I can reasonably expect a wedge into the green after good shots of driver-hybrid or driver-3-wood.

[Spectrums]

Put it this way; it's not a great question, for many reasons, but the most obvious answer is course management. Maybe I don't want to attempt a long 3-wood shot into a green. What is surrounding the green? Any slope of the green? Pin location?

I'd layup to about 110yds, my smooth PW length.

[cbagolf]

I could get there in 2 strokes

[srjorion]

I agree with Spectrums. Course management plays a big part in this one. I voted 121-145.

For me on average I would probably be 230 off the tee leaving 310 to the green. I would love to be 80 yards out for my third shot but I don't have a 230 game from the fairway right now. With 310 left I would hit my 170 club to give me a 140 shot to the green. Both shots I would be confident with. Anything longer than 170 from the fairway and I need to rethink or just take a chance.

If I get lucky and hit a 250 off the tee, which I do at times, then I would have 290 to the green. I might hit 160/130 for my next two shots giving me a better chance at making that second shot solid to set myself up for that third one to the green.

If the fairway is wide and the approach to the green is open I might try a hybrid from the fairway (which I'm inconsistent with at the moment) and see if I can get inside 130. Anything between 130 and 80 would put me in a good position for a solid shot at the pin.

[atrapasuenos]

Today, in a par 5 of 560 yards took me two strokes, dirver and 3 wood to be on the green. But normaly... a chip away.

Regards!

[Sandpiper3]

540? On a normal day i'll hit that no problem, smooth drive and 3w and ill be there.

Then its just a matter if it stays on the green and how far from the pin it is;).

But I usually lay up on par 5s. Make more birdies personally from say 105 than I will from any weird yardage around greens either way. At 105 I have a perfect punch sw that I can throw darts with.

[FIJIGolf23]

Put it this way; it's not a great question, for many reasons, but the most obvious answer is course management. Maybe I don't want to attempt a long 3-wood shot into a green. What is surrounding the green? Any slope of the green? Pin location?

I think you are over-analyzing this question man. He was simply asking if you can get there or how much would you have left in if you couldn't reach in two.

[Spectrums]

I think you are over-analyzing this question man. He was simply asking if you can get there or how much would you have left in if you couldn't reach in two.

True, but my distance won't let me get there in two. Besides, I play course-management, not grip-n'-rip.

[Elsfan]

If I paste my driver I am looking at a 3 iron into the green. 3 wood would be too much.

[callawaygolf]

I would be around 30 yards from the green.

[doublesuited77]

I could get there, however, I will score much better by laying up.

[gbk56]

Well, I guess I could get there on two on a good day. However, most of the time I would probably leave myself about 130 to 140 yards away hitting a Driver then a 4 iron. However, if I had a good drive, I was hitting the ball well and there was a lot of space for mishits, I may go for it in two.

I chose 130-140 with an eight iron.