tee vs deck yardage?

[adam2594]

This is probably elementary to you guys, but what kind of distance should I expect from my clubs in the fairway based on their distance off the tee? I can hit a SW 120 off the tee, AW 130 off the tee. And a 6i about 190 off a tee with about a 5* slope ( based on today's performance). Can anyone give me a fairway/ tee reference for other irons and wedges based on that? I wish I could give you guys some flat yardages off the fairway but I didn't get the opportunity to shoot the distance with my scope because people were waiting

[BuckeyeNut]

You should hit each club the same yardage.   Placing the ball on the peg shouldn't make a difference in distance.

[adam2594]

You should hit each club the same yardage.   Placing the ball on the peg shouldn't make a difference in distance.

thank you. I thought there would be a difference. Given those yardages, should I just fill in the rest of the clubs at 10 yds difference? Maybe 12?

[SoCal Blade]

True, but it makes it easier.

More room for error with a teed ball. Sometimes you can get away with one hit too thin.

[Ernest Jones]

You should hit each club the same yardage.   Placing the ball on the peg shouldn't make a difference in distance.

Mostly agree depending on how you tee your irons. I tee 'em so low it's basically on the ground but a perfect lie. I've seen lots of guys tee them relatively high and try to hit them in the upswing. That changes things. Personally I think it's the wrong way to go about it.

[adam2594]

Agrer. I pretty much bury the tee

[imsys0042]

I find that I get approx one extra club from teeing it up. I tee it up higher and feel like I catch it nicely on the upswing and it goes further. I do have "perfect contact" shots from the fairway roughly the same distance as teed up. But I feel that a tee is 1/2 to a full iron longer than off the deck. I feel the effect is minimized the short the iron. For example I hit my 5-iron in the 185-190 range off the fairway. Using GPS cart to ball mark in the fairway I can hit it up to 200 carry off a tee. And that's when i started teeing them up a little higher. Now I'm a slider style of swing so that might benefit me more than other people, but that's my experience.

[saevel25]

You should hit each club the same yardage.   Placing the ball on the peg shouldn't make a difference in distance.

I would say each iron you should get the same yardage.

I'd also say that with more GI irons you could actually hit up slightly with them and get more yardage. Some GI long irons are basically a hybrid. Like a hybrid, wood, and driver you can get different yardages depending on hittin up or down on the ball.

If you take a 3-wood and hit 1 down versus 2 up. The 2 up would go farther because it launches higher with lower spin.

For irons, they are the same yardages.

[ridgewalker]

My yardage is similar I'd say, but I hit the ball a higher and make better contact on average when it is teed up a little.

[Fourputt]

This is probably elementary to you guys, but what kind of distance should I expect from my clubs in the fairway based on their distance off the tee? I can hit a SW 120 off the tee, AW 130 off the tee. And a 6i about 190 off a tee with about a 5* slope ( based on today's performance). Can anyone give me a fairway/ tee reference for other irons and wedges based on that? I wish I could give you guys some flat yardages off the fairway but I didn't get the opportunity to shoot the distance with my scope because people were waiting

I played several shots with my new irons today just for the purpose of measuring them to get some idea of the distances I get with my new irons.  In 4 shots with my 4 iron, two on a tee and two on the grass, the difference was not perceptible.  One shot from a bad lie in the rough on powdery dirt went nearly as far as the other shots.  All went between 200 and 215 yards.  When a ball is properly struck, there should be very little difference.

I think that most amateurs perceive a difference because they tend to hit the ball a bit fat, and that would make a ball hit from a fairway lie travel shorter than one on a tee.

[nick1998bunker]

It used to be minimal but with my new irons it can be quite significant. I think i swing more level and take some spin off