How far do you drive?

watermyforrest wrote:

Cool! Hit and pray kind... like me...

WMF, you're too humble. When we last played, your drives were pretty long and straight.

http://www.pgatour.com/r/stats/info/xm.html?101

Anyone who claims they can shoot 250m average, 280m, should be top 200 on PGATOUR.

Inclusive of 20 metres roll because the PGA fairways are primed hard and fast.

Would a less stiff shaft help to improve the distance for driver?

these days, i am just happy my drive is straight and in fairway. I am even happy if its at the beginning of the fairway. Even if it takes me a 3-on for a par 4, i am happy to walk away with a bogey. It sure beats being in some rough bunker and in the company of trees. Worst still. WATER!!!

How far do I drive?........

no car....can't drive....bicycle can?...hehehehhe ..........

lufbra wrote:

Would a less stiff shaft help to improve the distance for driver?

I think distance and swing speed comes hand in hand. best is to get a shaft suitable for your swing speed, if not your ball direction will be inconsistance.

btw, if wanna measure based on buggy GPS at MBGC or Tanjong. do this

- park buggy next to the tee you're hitting from
- push red "drive" button before driving off to your ball (if you forget to push drive, the default starting point is the blue tee position set in the GPS system. Golfers teeing off fr white or red will read longer drives measurement)

I can hit my drive 200 - 220m. Done that one a few occasions on the course. In my memory:
1) 220m drives -- went high and so right, lost the ball in the forest
2) 210m drives -- went right again, over the fence and no chance to find
3) 200m drives -- went left this time and ball went fishing

The other few times i get the ball in the direction i am aiming, i manage to
1) Top the ball... rolled to red tee
2) duck hook it... past the red tee into deep rough
3) low and straight right into pond 50m in front...

Maybe i shld keep my driver for the driving range only...

mloy wrote:

drawbias wrote:

mloy wrote:

I don't drive very far but if it can go fairly straight I am happy. I realised that if I force it, it tends to fade very right. Sigh... Now I try to be conscious not to force my drive. Sometimes it works and most of time it sill fade to the right and honestly it frustrate me.

but you still arrived @ 200++ m on the fairway .........

You must have seen it in your dreams. I have never ever drove 200m not unless I hit the buggy track and take the "EPC".

Didn't expect to draw you out from your hibernation with this post. Nice to have you back, my friend. When can we have a game and you can see my 160m drive.

My only 2 games with you in the past witness your 200++ m (or rather 199m carry) drive leh ..... you outdrove me almost every single hole and i handed $$ to u with my jaw wide open .....

you drove 160m using 5i ............

when you want to game @ kranji?? slinger, kian, 4dtoto and many more waiting to welcome u .........

mloy wrote:

drawbias wrote:

mloy wrote:

I don't drive very far but if it can go fairly straight I am happy. I realised that if I force it, it tends to fade very right. Sigh... Now I try to be conscious not to force my drive. Sometimes it works and most of time it sill fade to the right and honestly it frustrate me.

but you still arrived @ 200++ m on the fairway .........

You must have seen it in your dreams. I have never ever drove 200m not unless I hit the buggy track and take the "EPC".

Didn't expect to draw you out from your hibernation with this post. Nice to have you back, my friend. When can we have a game and you can see my 160m drive.

Mloy, don't kid yourself. You can drive 200m... you don't do it regularly but often enough for your flightmates to notice.

I thought my drive pretty decent average 200 - 230 until I play with this kid , Mark 17years ago. He out drive me by another 50m. NSRCC Navy hole 4 , he almost ended up in the water near the green +340m.

i am very happy if it fly 150. drinking beer to celebrate liao. ya i know, i ease content. hehe....

I just achieve a PB of 150m with my 8iron at the range tdy.

but my dad still say not gd enuf. cn go further.

omg. i think its time for me to quit this game -_-"

DLWL wrote:

I just achieve a PB of 150m with my 8iron at the range tdy.

but my dad still say not gd enuf. cn go further.

omg. i think its time for me to quit this game -_-"

wow hitting 150m w 8iron and dad says not good enuf.. thinks he's preparing u for Rio Janeiro Olympics 2016

if you can consistently hit 150m with 8i, and your dad thinks tht it is not good enough, then you dad has the wrong concept about golf... cos your range would generally be as follows:

7i - 160m
6i - 170m
5i - 180m
4i - 190m

there is no more distance that would would require while playing the game of golf, in fact, assuming that 150m is the carry distance, you would be above the pga tour average of 160 yards

My dad thinks my swing not pretty -_-" or maybe he doesnt know im using a 8iron. haha coz i rotate among 8-6 to trainl distance control.

DLWL wrote:

My dad thinks my swing not pretty -_-" or maybe he doesnt know im using a 8iron. haha coz i rotate among 8-6 to trainl distance control.

Do u consistently hit same distances w ur irons? Out of curiosity, care to share what the distances are for them?

Distance is constant. but accuracy can be off depending on how much warm up i have =)
PW-120
9I-130
8I-140
7I-150
6I-165
5I-170
4I-180

Having accuracy problems with my 4 and 5 irons. l
still working out the kinks.

I am personally quite happy with the yardage so far, so quite -_-"
haha im 15 years too late to be training for Rio2016

Thats pretty impressive.. at least a good 15m more than me for all of them tho i stop at 5i and switched over to a 4 hybrid ... looks like u hv space for one more club in ur bag tho...

DLWL wrote:

Distance is constant. but accuracy can be off depending on how much warm up i have =)
PW-120
9I-130
8I-140
7I-150
6I-165
5I-170
4I-180

Having accuracy problems with my 4 and 5 irons. l
still working out the kinks.

I am personally quite happy with the yardage so far, so quite -_-"
haha im 15 years too late to be training for Rio2016

nice, you're a really strong iron player and using blades too!

Dlwl, you seem like a strong player. We shld have a round some day. I would like to see how you hit so far!

DLWL wrote:

My dad thinks my swing not pretty -_-" or maybe he doesnt know im using a 8iron. haha coz i rotate among 8-6 to trainl distance control.

swing doesnt have to be pretty to be good. swinging 8-6 you can hit 150m with an 8 iron. too sick la. im nowhere close to that.

DLWL wrote:

Distance is constant. but accuracy can be off depending on how much warm up i have =)
PW-120
9I-130
8I-140
7I-150
6I-165
5I-170
4I-180

Having accuracy problems with my 4 and 5 irons. l
still working out the kinks.

I am personally quite happy with the yardage so far, so quite -_-"
haha im 15 years too late to be training for Rio2016

Hi DLWL, yr distance measured at e range in yard or meter?
Which range u normally practice?

How come everyone but me can measure their distance at the range? Everytime i try to see where my ball lands, it just disappeared among the sea of balls. I don't even know my actual distance for 8 irons onwards... Just agak agak and add/minus 10 meters for every club

Benny, is because you hit so far until cannot see where the ball landed