Average Distances - How Far Do You Hit Each Club? (And Don't Lie!)

[Connorgolfer96]

Driver-225

3 Wood-210

2i hybrid-190

4i-185

5i-175

6i-170

7i-160

8i-155

9i-145

PW-130

56 Degree-90

60 Degree-75

64 Degree-50

[sean_miller]

Originally Posted by Connorgolfer96

Driver-225

3 Wood-210

2i hybrid-190

4i-185

5i-175

6i-170

7i-160

8i-155

9i-145

PW-130

56 Degree-90

60 Degree-75

64 Degree-50

Cool, you could get away with carrying a 1/2 set.

[jdmccjm]

Driver - 270-285 (can hit 300 if I torque it, but it's not a shot I often turn to b/c it lacks consistency)

3W - 240-250

3H - 205-215

4i - 193

5i - 180

6i - 171

7i - 160

8i - 151

9i - 134

PW - 120

52 - 105

56 - 95

[golfingal]

Originally Posted by Mr3Wiggle ... For me it's about feel.  I take the yardage into account, the elements, the terrain, and what I see.  ...

Originally Posted by Golfingdad   I really like this.  I am not knocking rangefinders and GPS (I just bought one, in fact) but it seems like people rely too much on the math nowadays and not enough on feel and their eyes.  Sometimes I look at the shot and it just feels like a 7 iron.  The yardage might say it should be an 8, but I can tell its a 7.

[georgeshot]

235 DR (10.5*) Adams Tight Lies High Launch COR R Flex Stock Graphite

Fairway Woods: Adams Tight Lies Original R Flex Stock Graphite

190 4-W (16*)

180 5-W (19*)

170 7-W (24*)

160 9-W (28*)

Irons: Cleveland TA-5 Gunmetal R Flex Stock Steel

145 6-Iron (30*)

135 7-Iron (33.5*)

125 8-Iron (37*)

115 9-Iron (41*)

Wedges: Cleveland 588 Gunmetal S Flex Stock Steel

100 PW (47*)

75 GW (53*)

65 SW (57*)
40 LW (64*) I don't use it for shots more than 40 yds

[Connorgolfer96]

That would work out well and save me from some back problems haha, thanks for the suggestion.

[i-Guy]

Originally Posted by Golfingdad

[And on a completely random note, that would actually be a fun tournament to play in:  One where you input your distances to the GPS or write them down, and you MUST play the club that matches the distance the GPS tells you.]

If follwed religously it would help people know their real distances...right???

[iacas]

Originally Posted by Golfingdad

[And on a completely random note, that would actually be a fun tournament to play in:  One where you input your distances to the GPS or write them down, and you MUST play the club that matches the distance the GPS tells you.]

I hit it to three feet at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island from 115. Normally that's between a SW and a PW, but I hit a 9I because it felt like the right shot. The wind was across, too. The tournament is a nice idea but doesn't account for the fact that better players who actually know their distances tend to hit clubs from a variety of distances way more often than those who think their 7I goes 165 when it really goes 155.

[i-Guy]

Originally Posted by iacas

The tournament is a nice idea but doesn't account for the fact that better players who actually know their distances tend to hit clubs from a variety of distances way more often than those who think their 7I goes 165 when it really goes 155.

Agree 100% but for most (per my post right above yours) it could provide realistic gudiance to what players average disctance were...no?

[sebsmash]

I hit my driver 250 3w 230 3h 200-210 Lob wedge 60 Sand wedge 90 Pitching wedge 120 9i 135 8i 145 7i 155 6i 165 5i 175, I would love to tell you how far my 4i goes but I only use that on the course to punch out of trees. Oh, and more important than distances, now all these clubs go nice and straight!

[i-Guy]

Oh yeah I never gave my average distances...per what's in my bag right now:

FW	245
4 iron	192
5 iron	178
6 iron	165
7 iron	151
8 iron	139
9 iron	127
PW	115
UW	100
SW	82

[funkstr1974]

your good just need to practice more i hit mine about the same just straighter and not as many duffs.

Driver                       250

RBZ 3 Wood            230

4-iron                       195

5-iron                       180

6-iron                       165

7-iron                       155

8-iron                       140

9-iron                       125

pw                           110

aw                            95

sw                            dk

[the chunker]

3 wood- 225 5 wood- 210 7 wood- 195 5 iron- 180 6 iron- 165 7 iron- 150 8 iron- 135 9 iron- 120 PW- 105 SW- 75

[onesome]

I'll try my best at this,

265 Driver

230 3 wood

215 4 wood

190 4 hybrid

180 4 iron

170 5iron

160 6 iron

150 7 iron

140 8 iron

130 9 iron

120 PW

110 GW

95  52 degree

75 58  degree

[Pete Elsner]

240-265 Driver but I average 250 but today I had one go 278

220-250 3 wood

210-220 4 wood

185-205 3 hybrid

175-185 4 iron

165-175 5iron

155-165 6 iron

143-155 7 iron

130-143 8 iron

118-130 9 iron

105-118 PW

90-105 GW

60-90  54 degree for some reason I can't hit this well consistently! So, I don't use it!

0-90 56  degree SW I use all the time

I got this great free app for my android called shot tracker, You just select your club, hit the start button, drive to your shot and hit the stop button, then it shows you the distance!  After more than one shot with the same club it will give you your average.  Great app!  Also, use a free one called "Free Caddie" which gives you yardage to front, middle and back of any course.

[bunkerputt]

I still don't know all of my distances in terms of carry for anything past 150.  I thought my 9-iron was traveling 152, but I took a couple of measurements today and they were closer to 162.  I've been working on getting a lot of smash and hit with the right arm now, so maybe that's the difference.  It's a touch hotter this month so that adds some yards too.  400 yards straightaway is 4-iron, 9-iron for me currently.  3-wood works on pretty much any tee where before I would be taking driver.  Probably less than 280 yards, but I never really pay much attention to it, since there isn't anything other than lateral trouble on the courses I play.  I hit driver something like 5 times in the last month.  Just don't need to now.  Things keep changing, so I've just started "feeling" the distances.  Needed some work on that for sure at first because I couldn't convince myself that I was around 2 clubs longer (maybe 3) than before.  People I play with are starting to notice that the sound of my shots is different.  There's this "crack" that wasn't there before and the ball seems to hiss all the way to the apex too.  I thought I was hitting it good before, but the wow factor just wasn't there apparently, judging by the number of people who say "wow".  When they inevitably start asking questions, I tell them to check out the sand trap, start reading and get to work.

At some point, I'll pull out the gps and charts or rent some time with a Trackman fitter and have the numbers game figured out...

[bplewis24]

Do you carry anything inbetween 3w and 4i?

[Motown88]

Depends on the day...if my golf balls are behaving themselves and going straight then I sometimes get more distance!  I know my distances aren't very linear, but for whatever reason the following is what I normally hit from those distances and it usually seems to work!

Driver: 270 - 290 yards consistently

3 Wood: 260

5 Wood: 230 - 250

3 Iron: 225

4 Iron: 210

5 Iron: 200

6 Iron: 185

7 Iron: 175

8 Iron: 160

9 Iron: 150

PW: 120 - 150 yards

52 ° W: 90 - 130 yards

58 ° : <90 yards