What is your average Driver yardage?

[bluenar9]

if i do go to the range, i don't hit my driver. i never could hit it at the range b/c i'm always just trying to murder it so everything gets screwed up. i usually just work on my iron play... also.. look at the people who are at the range as well. most of the ranges i've gone to off of courses are just people out having some fun trying to hit some balls. at courses i mostly see people working on their iron play.

The range I go to has a 250 marker then a net which is 300. It has 3 tiers of grass, each one about 4 yards wide and 1 yard apart, and the range distances are measured from the front tier. So, you figure that if you hit the net from the front tier you're only doing 285, and if you hit it from the back portion of the back tier you're actually hitting 300.

Also, I don't have your problem with driving at the range. However, most of my range time is spent on iron play, and if I feel I need to work on something with my drive I do it about 3/4 through my bucket. Like last night I was getting used to my new irons and hit 50 with my 8 iron, 50 with my 6, and 50 with my 4, never touching my driver because I didn't go there for that.

[Guest]

I probably average 280 to 285 but recently, using my skycaddie to mark them, I averaged 312 for the day on some firm bentgrass fairways with little wind. I hit one 351 downhill but also went 334 on a flat fairway. Those were big for me.

Loo

[Sand-Dweller]

I average about 220 in the air but on a really good day I have very occasionally sent one or two to about 260, but those are rare.

[King Cobra II]

My average today would have been weird. I have such a lack of consistancy. I hit about 1/2 of my drives today 250 very close to the middle of the fairway, how ever i hit the other 1/2 with severe slices, and probably only averaged 185 with them, I think many people (myself included) take an average of there best drives for the day, not including those shankers

[mcecki]

215 is probably my average.

I'll have one or two 275's per round, but also some 180's .

[BluesMan]

Decent drives are about 295+

Average is probably 280

[lamebums]

I think many people (myself included) take an average of there best drives for the day, not including those shankers

You're making a good point here. I do that, as well. I don't count the worm burner, banana-ball, or duck-hook into my driving average. When I say I drove the ball (insert number here) yards today, I mean well-struck shots, not the mishits as well. For example, I drove the ball 280 today with my well-struck ones, but that doesn't count the "I intended to hit a draw but got a fade" shots (a fade kills my distance), or my toe hit on #9. The real average is probably 250, because that fade cuts my distance down to....220 on a lucky day.

[Guest ShadowXOR]

Well I went out today for the first time and mine seems to be right around 200 yards give or take (probably take).

[Brandonink2001]

I average right at the high end of the 201-260 yard range and, well, gave myself benefit of the doubt on the survey. The last three rounds I played, I ranged from 250-310, with the vast majority in the 255-265 range.

[joey1234]

i have been keeping track of all my drives since i got my new driver- drives have been between 240-270.. HUGE improvement compare to my last driver where I was struggling to the 200 yard marker..... getting fitted was the best thing i could of done...

[blue_crush]

not to start a thread highjack, but it would be nice to see the the % of fairways hit to be added to the distance or avarage too... my friends are big hitters and missers too...lol 260/280yd drives don't mean anything if there OB or in the next fairway... but then again most of you never miss the fairways....

[lamebums]

not to start a thread highjack, but it would be nice to see the the % of fairways hit to be added to the distance or avarage too... my friends are big hitters and missers too...lol 260/280yd drives don't mean anything if there OB or in the next fairway... but then again most of you never miss the fairways....

Actually, I used to be that way. I would hit the ball a long way, and not know in what area code it was going to land. It's taken me most of the summer, but a swing change and the realization I don't need to murder the ball to get it out there, I'm getting the ball under control. Sure, once every round or two I'll send one into the wrong state, but hey... it happens to everyone.

For the majority of people though, their monster drives are only matched by the monster lies they end up in - places on the course that don't see many visitors. Even for the straighter hitters, the odds are stacked against them, because it's harder to hit a 50 yard fairway with a 300 yard drive than it is with a 200 yard drive. Simple trigonometry, I'm afraid. Edit: I hit about 60 percent of the fairways and my misses usually aren't bad. It usually means my ball tricked about six inches into the rough.

[blue_crush]

great reply... that pretty much sums it up for most...

[wolfsburg2]

somewhere around 260-270 for my average i guess.

[lhshurdl3r]

not to start a thread highjack, but it would be nice to see the the % of fairways hit to be added to the distance or avarage too... my friends are big hitters and missers too...lol 260/280yd drives don't mean anything if there OB or in the next fairway... but then again most of you never miss the fairways....

on average i'll usually hit 7 fairways per round (not that great) but i'll also have 4 or 5 misses that are within a few yards of the fairway too.

[silliwilli]

I carry it about 280 yards, I know this as its been a wet summer and my ball has ended up about 2 yards in front of or behind its pitch mark

My driving accuracy has improved since switching to the Taylor Made Burner driver about a month ago, I probably hit around 60% fairways but I tend to miss real bad once a round, mainly right!

[Dyna]

I am still doubting the number of posters who claim to be able to carry it 280+ yds. That is far & beyond anything that studies have shown regarding handicaps & driving distances.

[Big Don]

I am still doubting the number of posters who claim to be able to carry it 280+ yds. That is far & beyond anything that studies have shown regarding handicaps & driving distances.

So do I. Most of these guys are fantasy merchants.