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Cumbria, UK
Joined: 8/16/2007
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Posted: Sep/20/2007 4:14 PM PST
250-280yds. More if there is a tail wind. Enough for me, besides, if it goes too far I can't see it
Keeping it straight is more important than hitting it long.
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Orem, UT
Joined: 8/16/2007
Posts: 338
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Posted: Sep/21/2007 6:44 AM PST
Okay, with so many 300+ yard drivers on this site, I want to know how far you can hit it straight (keeping it in the fairway). Cuz what does it matter if you hit the ball 400 yards but get it into the deepest rough on the course, or the woods, or the sand, or--heaven forbid--the water!
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Longmont, CO
Joined: 8/16/2007
Posts: 14
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Posted: Sep/21/2007 7:32 AM PST
According to my stats that I keep on Golf Link, my fairway accuracy with my driver is currently about 50%...but when it goes straight and I connect well, I can get 210-225 out of my driver, but it isn't a great club, nice and works, but not a Callaway or Nike...
Have the Callaway FT-5 on order.....
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Joined: 8/16/2007
Posts: 143
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Posted: Sep/21/2007 7:48 AM PST
With ave conditions about 230-240 which works. Yeah, there's the 340 yd downwind dogleg par 4's where I can hit it about 30-50 yds from the center of the green but there's the uphill into the wind holes where 200-210 is a great drive. If one is getting older and losing distance, consider getting a new driver with 10.5-12.5 degree loft. They work and are a lot longer than a 2-3 y.o driver.
Pro shops are full of demo clubs this time of year. Today's weapons, tomorrow's antiques!
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Jersey Boy
Joined: 9/17/2007
Posts: 93
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Posted: Sep/21/2007 7:56 AM PST
Quote: Originally posted by thenexttiger Okay, with so many 300+ yard drivers on this site, I want to know how far you can hit it straight (keeping it in the fairway). Cuz what does it matter if you hit the ball 400 yards but get it into the deepest rough on the course, or the woods, or the sand, or--heaven forbid--the water!
I generally don't hit many fairways....maybe 30%, but I am not usually that far off and am so used to playing out of the rough, my GIR are pretty high.
If you have amazing distance but no accuracy...the potential is there...It is alot easier to learn how to hit a straight shot then to learn how to gain distance. You may gain 10 yards but nothing major. I would rather play a 100 yard shot into the green from the rough then a 200 yard shot from the fairway any day. Im not saying you can't be an amazing golfer without distance.. I will use my grandpa for example(he wasn't amazing, he was pretty good) (RIP) His last couple years alive it would take his three best shots to reach most par 4s but there was a 95% chance he was going to one putt.
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Orem, UT
Joined: 8/16/2007
Posts: 338
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Posted: Sep/21/2007 9:06 AM PST
What are your power secrets? I'd love to be hitting 300+ yard drives.
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Moncton New Brunswick
Joined: 8/16/2007
Posts: 572
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Posted: Sep/21/2007 10:38 AM PST
I'll admit it, I'm jealous, I wish I could hit 300 yards, and like someone mentioned its easier to learn to hit a 300 yard drive straight then for us 220 yard guys to learn to hit 300 yards. Then I think back to show I seen on the golf channel, where the resident pro said 300 yards was not necessary. He said that if you gave him a 7 iron, pitching wedge and a putter, he could play par golf on any golf course you'd care to mention. The truth is it is possible. The longest hole on my home course is 555 yards, if I hit a consistent 7 iron of 150 yards (and thats conservative), three shots with the 7 iron is going to put me at the 105 yard mark, I hit a pitching wedge to 10 feet and I one putt. PAR. Now if I can hit 300 yards, that puts my 2nd shot at 255 yards, if I can hit a perfect 253 yard shot, that puts me at 6 feet. One putt and I have birdied the hole. I'm lousy at math, so maybe some of you guys who are good at it could figure something out for me. Lets assume that our golfer is out of alignment with the flag stick by 2 degrees left, when he makes his first shot. How far to the left (150 and 300) will the 2nd shot be from the original target line to the flag? If someone could post the results we could evaluate the benefits of being able to hit 300 yards.
Del
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Jersey Boy
Joined: 9/17/2007
Posts: 93
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Posted: Sep/21/2007 11:00 AM PST
Quote: Originally posted by 65nlovenit I'll admit it, I'm jealous, I wish I could hit 300 yards, and like someone mentioned its easier to learn to hit a 300 yard drive straight then for us 220 yard guys to learn to hit 300 yards. Then I think back to show I seen on the golf channel, where the resident pro said 300 yards was not necessary. He said that if you gave him a 7 iron, pitching wedge and a putter, he could play par golf on any golf course you'd care to mention. The truth is it is possible. The longest hole on my home course is 555 yards, if I hit a consistent 7 iron of 150 yards (and thats conservative), three shots with the 7 iron is going to put me at the 105 yard mark, I hit a pitching wedge to 10 feet and I one putt. PAR. Now if I can hit 300 yards, that puts my 2nd shot at 255 yards, if I can hit a perfect 253 yard shot, that puts me at 6 feet. One putt and I have birdied the hole. I'm lousy at math, so maybe some of you guys who are good at it could figure something out for me. Lets assume that our golfer is out of alignment with the flag stick by 2 degrees left, when he makes his first shot. How far to the left (150 and 300) will the 2nd shot be from the original target line to the flag? If someone could post the results we could evaluate the benefits of being able to hit 300 yards. Del
On that perfect 253 yard shot you one putt for eagle!!!. I will have the answer to your trigonometry in a sec...
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Jersey Boy
Joined: 9/17/2007
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Posted: Sep/21/2007 11:04 AM PST
Quote: Originally posted by thenexttiger What are your power secrets? I'd love to be hitting 300+ yard drives.
Hey thenexttiger,
Have you ever got your swing speed and ball speed measured?
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Pinole, Berkeley, Hercules
Joined: 9/06/2007
Posts: 49
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Posted: Sep/21/2007 11:06 AM PST
Quote: Originally posted by 65nlovenit Now if I can hit 300 yards, that puts my 2nd shot at 255 yards, if I can hit a perfect 253 yard shot, that puts me at 6 feet. One putt and I have birdied the hole.
On a Par 5, if you hit the second shot to 6 feet and one putt, wouldn't that be an eagle?
I agree that a 300 yard drive isn't necessary. But honestly, before I got a new driver and started swinging off the tee better, I was hitting 220 yard drives. On most Par 4's, then I would be hitting middle irons to get on the green in 2.
Gaining 30-50 yards on my drive didn't necessarily directly translate into better golf, per se, but it left me hitting my short irons (and sometimes wedges) on Par 4's, which are easier to hit and control than middle irons. Instead of hitting a 140-180 yard shot to the pin, I am now hitting 100-150 to the pin on Par 4's... much easier to control.
Also, a lot of courses, I've noticed are designed to put a lot of trouble right where a typical drive might be. A longer drive has me hitting over the fairway bunkers, etc., and away from the trouble.
You can always take it down a club if you need to control it more, but I think the ability to "overpower the course" with distance is a tool that is nice to have.
Of course, if you're hitting it solid all around your bag, then it doesn't matter... 
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