Most Accurate Driving Round of 2015

[bkuehn1952]

Like the "Best Putting", I checked my driving stats.  Admittedly "FIR" is not an especially important stat but I started keeping it decades ago so I just continue to track that number.  I am not wild off the tee but no one would label me an extremely accurate driver of the ball, either.

My best for 2015 (so far) was 92.3% or 12 of 13 on a par 71 track.  That is a fair step up from my typical 56% FIR.  I may have hit 100% at some point in the past but I can't recall.  The day I hit 12 of 13 I was really feeling relaxed and just felt where ever I aimed was the place the ball was going.    Nice feeling.

Anyone hit 100% this year?  What was your best so far?

[rehmwa]

Thanks for the reminder, I haven't looked at stats for some time.  It was good to order them all top to bottom and see which track best with my overall score,

Once each in the last 3 years I've hit 13 out of 14.  92.9%  Two of those rounds are very good scores.  But only one of those in my top 5 and that was also a good GIR round.  So I'd conclude that hitting fairways isn't my be stat to focus on today - unless it helps GIR, or missing FH is particularly penal.

 

But my personal best round ever, and only one under par, is, not surprisingly, my top GIR round 83.3 - I only missed 3 greens and got up and down on 2 when it was close to GIR.  In fact, my very best rounds (18 holes) are my best GIR rounds consistently.

I normally get 9 or 10 GIRs on a good day.  My scores get better DRAMATICALLY as that stat goes up.

Putts don't seem to help much.  I seem to avoid 3 putts for now.....It does seem to help a lot if I'm hitting FH and GIR well.  if not, it's a wash.

I track FH, GIR, Putts, and Penalties/Blowups - I think if I can make GIR much better, then putts will start to be more important (convert birdies more often...)

[rkim291968]

12 out of 14 was my best and I average about 60% FIR.

[mvmac]

I had four rounds where I hit 12/14 fairways, I'll post the most recent one.

http://www.gamegolf.com/player/mvmac83/round/584159

[saevel25]

Way to pick one of my strengths ;)

Best one was 36% at Northstar Golf Club. 

[isukgolf]

For the year ... game golf has me at 54% ...

[Grumpter]

I can't answer as I don't keep track every round. However, I can answer that my best scoring round I only hit 6 of 13 fairways.

[sjduffers]

13 out of 14: I missed the second one a bit left.

My average FIR% this year is a bit down to 56%, but I know hardly ever miss right after fixing my swing. I just can't yet push myself to aim right enough to have the ball come back to the middle, so when I overdraw a bit, I am just left of the fairway.

[bm85]

85% Fwy using 3w. Was Stenson-esque, but I'll take driver all day now.

[iacas]

Uhhhh… I can tell you easily that I averaged 53% of fairways hit. So… my best round would probably be something like 10/14 or so, maybe 11. Hitting the fairways is rarely a priority.

[boogielicious]

I had three league rounds in a row at 5/7, 71%. I only averaged 40% for the year so far though.

[vangator]

I played an alternate shot Ryder Cup tourney where I hit the first drive in a bunker and can't remember missing any other fairways.  The second day was a best ball format where I think I missed 3 fairways.  I remember a short par 4 where I popped up a 3W about 100 yards, but it still made the fairway. :)  I'm normally in the 9 to 10 range.

[shanksalot]

 I have had quite a few 14/14 this year as our fairways are pretty wide and easy to hit especially if you are distance challenged as I am these days. 200-220 off the tee makes it pretty easy to hit the fairway unless you are very crooked too. 

[billchao]

Best was 43%, the same round that I made the most GIR in: http://www.gamegolf.com/player/billchao/round/599491

Not surprised it was the same round because hitting more fairways for me means hitting less balls in trouble which gives me more looks at greens.

[BuckeyeNut]

I only averaged 60.6% Fairways Hit for the year.   The most I hit in 2015 was 13/14=92.8%

 

With that said, I don't put a lot of weight in that because I've had many rounds where my FIR stats weren't very good, but the misses were small and I scored very well because of that.   

 

[RandallT]

I had either 6 or 7 fairways hit in every round this year (with one exception of hitting just 4 once). Pretty consistent.  No standout round at all for tee shots.

In "strokes gained" terms, I typically lose about 5 strokes to pros on my tee shots for a round. There was one round where I only lost 2.4 shots to pros, about a stroke better than the next best. That was a 7 FIR/6 GIR day, which is on the high end of my normal day, but the key was no OB penalties off the tee. 

I usually have 1 or 2 penalties off the tee per round. 

 

[DrvFrShow]

71% this year, and the round sucked because I hit the iron shots fat - how to turn a career long drive on a par 5 that left an 8 iron approach into a double bogey.

[vangator]

I forgot I played a round at the Innisbrook Copperhead course this year where I only used my 3W (broken driver shaft).  I missed one fairway all day.  If I would have had my driver I wouldn't be saying that. :)

Today I hit 11 of 14 and had bogey, par, birdie on the 3 that I missed.  I had to play the same 9 twice, so the round doesn't count in my book.  I met up with a nice guy and we had a great time.  was one over the first time around and 2 under the second time around.  Love my new "used" driver.  Still struggling with the flat stick.