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My best personnal drive is over 345 yards, but, the thing is that I drove right in the middle of the cart path, lol, so the ball made about 50 yards more. But if I don't count this drive, my best one is a superb controlled hook in the right middle of the fairway, 295 yards off the tee.

-Julien

In my stand bag:

Driver: R7 460 Stiff
3-Wood: sumo
5-Wood: sumoIrons: R7 4-AWSW: rac LW: racPutter: Rossa Monsa CGB Fontana-7Balls: Pro V-1, NEW nike ONE


  • 4 weeks later...
I have a particular hole at a muni course I play a lot that I have some sort of mental power over.

It is a par 4 that measures 420 from the blue tees and I have been about 75 yards out a handful of times this year.

The math on that is about 345 yards.

Its purely a voodoo hex of some sort I have put on the hole and not awesome power.

My average on good straight drives are around 275 yards or so.

In the bag:
Driver: R7 Quad
Irons: Eye 2 + (Red Dot)
Wedges: Vokey (52, 56, 60)Putter: Anser G2iBalls: (Pro V1, NXT, DT Solo, Whatever is handy)


315..............

Cleveland Launcher Comp, 9.5* stiff
TaylorMade V-Steel, T/S stiff
Cleveland Halo, 19* stiff
Mizuno MP-32, stiff
Cleveland 588 Gunmetal, 51*Cleveland 588 DSG RTG, 56*Scotty Cameron Newport II


Robert Trent Jones at Oxmoor Valley in Birmingham, Alabama

Hole #7
Par 5 (dont remember the distance from tee to green)

With the GPS on the cart I measured my drive to be 371 yards.

Mid-summer with the air so stagnate that gnats would eat dinner off my forehead!

This is a flat hole with water on the left. Perfect timing, perfect swing, perfect contact and managed to find the sweet spot on the ball as well.

What I used:

Taylormade Burner Driver
Titleist Pro-v1
epoch 3 1/4 tee
and a swig of some good ole' ALABAMA SWEET TEA. :)


Cleveland Launcher Comp, 9.5* stiff
TaylorMade V-Steel, T/S stiff
Cleveland Halo, 19* stiff
Mizuno MP-32, stiff
Cleveland 588 Gunmetal, 51*Cleveland 588 DSG RTG, 56*Scotty Cameron Newport II


No more so than an almost 15 Hcp posting a 315

Bag It:

3-Wood Wishon 525 F/D, 13*, Matrix Studio 65gm, Golf Pride Dual Compound
Hybrid: Wishon "321", 24*, MSF 85 HB, Winn DSI
Irons: Wishon 770CFE, Matrix Studio 74gm, Winn DSI

Putter: Odyssey DFX 2-Ball

Bag: Some big, honkin', ridiculous overkill of an Ogio cart bag with more pockets than I have teeth.


  Sherpat said:
No more so than an almost 15 Hcp posting a 315

Cleveland Launcher Comp, 9.5* stiff
TaylorMade V-Steel, T/S stiff
Cleveland Halo, 19* stiff
Mizuno MP-32, stiff
Cleveland 588 Gunmetal, 51*Cleveland 588 DSG RTG, 56*Scotty Cameron Newport II


Well said!

:)

Bag It:

3-Wood Wishon 525 F/D, 13*, Matrix Studio 65gm, Golf Pride Dual Compound
Hybrid: Wishon "321", 24*, MSF 85 HB, Winn DSI
Irons: Wishon 770CFE, Matrix Studio 74gm, Winn DSI

Putter: Odyssey DFX 2-Ball

Bag: Some big, honkin', ridiculous overkill of an Ogio cart bag with more pockets than I have teeth.


  Sherpat said:
Well said!

As I said, 315, well downhill, 1,200 feet above sea level (yes, it matters) and probably 85-90+ degrees out.

371? But I'm not going to argue with you, you are seemingly one of 4 people on this thread who was honest!

Cleveland Launcher Comp, 9.5* stiff
TaylorMade V-Steel, T/S stiff
Cleveland Halo, 19* stiff
Mizuno MP-32, stiff
Cleveland 588 Gunmetal, 51*Cleveland 588 DSG RTG, 56*Scotty Cameron Newport II


Lol...yeah, I know. You've been one of the few here also not sugarcoating or inflating things. I'm sure the 315 was sincere.

But...I just couldn't help it!!

It's a failing

Bag It:

3-Wood Wishon 525 F/D, 13*, Matrix Studio 65gm, Golf Pride Dual Compound
Hybrid: Wishon "321", 24*, MSF 85 HB, Winn DSI
Irons: Wishon 770CFE, Matrix Studio 74gm, Winn DSI

Putter: Odyssey DFX 2-Ball

Bag: Some big, honkin', ridiculous overkill of an Ogio cart bag with more pockets than I have teeth.


  Sherpat said:
Lol...yeah, I know. You've been one of the few here also not sugarcoating or inflating things. I'm sure the 315 was sincere.

I understand

Cleveland Launcher Comp, 9.5* stiff
TaylorMade V-Steel, T/S stiff
Cleveland Halo, 19* stiff
Mizuno MP-32, stiff
Cleveland 588 Gunmetal, 51*Cleveland 588 DSG RTG, 56*Scotty Cameron Newport II


I just saw that my wife had uncovered the scorecard from our trip out to AZ when we played together. I remembered that I was pretty sure my longest drive was out there, and apparently I walked it off as best I could at the time, as the scorecard had a big 347 circled on one hole. Yay for dry fairways!

Nothing in the swing is done at the expense of balance.


  Sherpat said:
No more so than an almost 15 Hcp posting a 315

Oh, c'mon, guys. My good friend is about 6'3", 240 lbs and has one of the fastest swings you'll ever see. He bought this custom-made TM driver from a friend of his, a guy who was on a small tour and had an arsenal of clubs. I think it was like 8.5° (my buddy hits it really high), XS shaft, etc... I used to watch him absolutely slobberknock that friggin' thing, but he always hit his irons super high and short, and his short game was marginal, at best, so I bet he falls around a 15 or so, all while continually drawing gasps from playing partners who saw his tee shots.

Nothing in the swing is done at the expense of balance.


<< My good friend is about 6'3", 240 lbs and has one of the fastest swings you'll ever see. >>

Ok, that's fine.

What do you think his longest personal drive to date is, though? It's gotta be over 350. If you're friend really is that fast a swinger (size and weight don't matter much, of course), then he has to be sailing it way past the 350+ mark that most of the members here reach on a regular basis.

Bag It:

3-Wood Wishon 525 F/D, 13*, Matrix Studio 65gm, Golf Pride Dual Compound
Hybrid: Wishon "321", 24*, MSF 85 HB, Winn DSI
Irons: Wishon 770CFE, Matrix Studio 74gm, Winn DSI

Putter: Odyssey DFX 2-Ball

Bag: Some big, honkin', ridiculous overkill of an Ogio cart bag with more pockets than I have teeth.


I usually can't hit my driver at all so I use a 5 iron off the tee.

Nobody will believe this but here goes anyway.

One day on the par 5, 12th hole at the public course in Barbados I hit a 350 yard drive with a 30 MPH wind behind me. An 8 iron onto the green and a 30 foot putt for eagle.

Everybody deserves to have a hole like that just once in their life.

I was convinced that I had hammered (for me) a beautiful, high slight draw 295 yards. The hole was marked from the tee box as 319 to the center of a small green and I drove it to the fringe. For me, this was a monster drive because I've never hit more than 265 on the driving range.

I went to Google Earth the other day and got the distance from tee box to mid green and it came up 266 yards -- looks like I only hit it maybe 250. I now don't trust the technique of subtracting the approach length from the stated tee box yardage to assess my drive length.

My Bag:

Driver: Srixon ZR-W 9.5* Graffaloy Epic 68(R)
Fairway: Wishon 949MC 16.5*
Hybrid(s): Cobra Baffler DWS 20*Irons: 6-PW Mizuno MP-52. 5i Mizuno MX-23Wedges: Cleveland CG12 DSG 56/10Putter: Rife 2-Bar Hybrid


  jammer59 said:
I was convinced that I had hammered (for me) a beautiful, high slight draw 295 yards. The hole was marked from the tee box as 319 to the center of a small green and I drove it to the fringe. For me, this was a monster drive because I've never hit more than 265 on the driving range.

You can do that on Google Earth? That's freakin' cool!

You're right, though, a lot of factors go into it. Sometimes if it's a slight dogleg, tees are up that day, etc. Then again, yardages for some holes are flat out wrong, too. But there ain't nothing wrong with a 250 yard draw off the tee, either!

Cleveland Launcher Comp, 9.5* stiff
TaylorMade V-Steel, T/S stiff
Cleveland Halo, 19* stiff
Mizuno MP-32, stiff
Cleveland 588 Gunmetal, 51*Cleveland 588 DSG RTG, 56*Scotty Cameron Newport II


  Sherpat said:
<< My good friend is about 6'3", 240 lbs and has one of the fastest swings you'll ever see. >>

Are people here saying they hit that

regularly , or they hit it one time ? Yes, I'm sure my buddy has hit one well past 350 at some point, but on a regular basis, he's probably 280-300 (and, yes, occasionally, he just toes one 240, too). Regularly, I'd only call myself a 260-275 guy, but there are days - for whatever reason - I'm really hitting the sweet spot and touching 300 nearly all day.

Nothing in the swing is done at the expense of balance.


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