TrackMan Average Tour Stats

TrackMan Average Tour Stats

Tour stats include:

Club Speed, Attack Angle, Ball Speed, Smash Factor, Launch Angle, Spin Rate, Max Height, Land Angle and Carry.

TrackMan Average Stats Taken From The PGA TOUR

TrackMan PGA Tour Averages Stats

TrackMan LPGA Tour Average Stats

TrackMan LPGA Tour Averages Stats

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So the average male Tour pro hits down on the ball slightly with the driver? Should attack angle vary with clubhead speed?

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The attack angle for the pros varies on woods, but it’s more or less negative when it comes to hybrids and irons. For the average player, the attack angle on drivers varies and in general so should the ball that is hit from the ground always have a negative attack angle in order to get a better margin of error for the impact.

However, in order to get the longest carry possible, the ball should launch high with low spin. The optimal numbers are individual based on club speed – and that type of flight can easier be achieved if the spin loft is low together with a high dynamic loft. The more the attack angle is negative, then the higher the spin loft gets => the attack angle should be closer to 0 if anything IF the goal is to carry as long as possible.

But generally, the attack angle for irons should be from -2 – -5 for almost all players, but for drivers you can hit it further with a positive attack angle, no matter the club speed.

Niklas Bergdahl Support Manager EMEA & Asia

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Can you send me the optimal numbers across the board that players and coaches should be looking for in lessons and trackman sessions

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Strangely enough, with a driver you can achieve a carry of 300 vs 275 with the same clubhead speed of 113. Adam Young tries to get people to convert to this method. Attack angle = +8 degrees Launch angle = 19 degrees Backspin = 2,000 Smash Factor= 1.5

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Hi. I can only confirm. I achieve those positive angles and l can carry the driver (9 degr loft) 245 yards with a club speed of 95mph. Rollout is average 20 yards.

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No, it is 3° and that means the clubhead is movin upwards. – is downwards.

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You are reading the LPGA (ladies) numbers Tim. The PGA (men) average is -1.3.

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Looks like the average LPGA players trackman swing speed is more or less the same as an average 10 hcp male player. Though the ladies are a lot more skilled in hitting it on the right angles and in the right spot on the clubface. Would an average 10 hcp male player have a advantage or disadvantege using graphite shafts?

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Harry, any player of any handicap can benefit from graphite shafts. More often than not, the memory in most players’ minds from graphite stems from a very long time ago when graphite was ONLY graphite. It was whippy, and not very accurate. Material advances and composite technology have nearly rendered steel obsolete. I say nearly, mind you. There are a number of outstanding graphite shafts out there that are super stable and responsive, enabling a lighter club and longer distance without sacrificing accuracy. Fujikura makes some really nice iron shafts that fuse both steel and graphite technologies called MCI. In fact, i have Fuji PRO 95i shafts in my irons and my iron game is better now than it ever was with steel. I’m a 3.5 index and relatively strong but it allows me to play all out without getting tired on the back 9 from heavy clubs. Being a club builder, i can tell you that in golf equipment there’s a trade-off in everything. wether it’s length, weight, or feel so your advantage or disadvantage is dependent on how precisely you build your piece of equipment.

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Hey Chris thanks for the info below i find it very interesting. Curious do you have those same shafts in your wedges or do you have steel in your wedges? I played SteelFiber i95 shafts last year in all my irons including wedges. I liked them in my irons but i felt like it hurt my game in wedges. Do you have any thoughts on this? Thanks

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Agreed. Shallow your angle of attack to match the LPGA players.

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I have had a number of sessions on a Trackman, (the latest on Aug 22, 2015, at “Modern Golf” in Mississauga On.). My clubhead speed and distances are about the same as LPGA averages. I was doing wedge work, and see that for a pitching wedge, (48°), my angle of attack -about 7.5° – is n=much higher than LPGA average. My accuracy is good, (only 3 0f 19 shots more that 20′ away, and all when the face angle was over 4° closed). I’m thinking that I should weaken my left hand a bit, (it’s a little strong on pitch shots), and play the ball farther forward- 2″ ahead of centre. Am I on the right track, or will these changes introduce new problems?

I’m 74 years old, and am a long-time PGA of Canada member. Thanks for any feedback…. love Trackman outings.

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I would recommend that you visit one of our certified coaches, he/she would be able to help you and find what numbers are best for you.

See our TrackMan Locator here.

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I don’t disagree with these stats but I do it;s kinda weird. 87 miles mph with an 8 iron should produce 177 yards of carry not 160 that’s a lot of mph. Iv’e seen high school kids hit 9 iron 165 and they don’t swing 100 mph with a 9 iron. When I swing hard I hit my 8 iron 155 and my legit radar read 72 mph so logic would dictate at 88 mph you would get more like 180 yards carry again that’s a lot of mph.

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Remember that’s a carry number not total distance. Also since the pros produce significant more back spin, their ball flight is higher, landing angle loftier producing minimum roll whereas your total distance might be benefiting from maximum roll. One more thing to check would be launch angle where you might be hitting a low ball flight to maximize distance which in my opinion is “cheating.”

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The PGA Tour 8-iron goes 160 in the air for a couple of reasons. One, they usually hit weaker lofts than high school players (like I) do. Secondly, they spin their 8-iron at 7998 RPM to stop the ball on fast greens. I believe this is the combination that makes the 8-iron go so much shorter.

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I’ve hit thousands of balls on Foresight simulators, and what I’ve found is that backspin significantly influences carry distance. Holding club head speed constant, greater backspin reduces carry distance on all clubs.

For mid-irons, I’d estimate that you lose roughly 5-7 yards of carry per 1,000 RPM in additional backspin. And with the driver it’s easily 10+ yards of carry lost per 1,000 RPM.

This explains why poorly struck balls will often fly as far, if not further, than a well-hit shot. The key to backspin is crispness of contact – a poorly struck shot simply won’t spin as much. Unless the impact is absolutely terrible, the lack of backspin on poorly struck shots will cause those balls to carry further than a well-struck ball. So if you’re flying balls over the green with your irons, the culprit could be too little backspin caused by poor contact, cheap balls, a dirty club face, etc.

I think this is also the key reason why fades don’t carry as far as draws. It’s not that a draw swing is any faster/more powerful – it’s simply that fades have more backspin due to the impact geometry/physics involved with that swing.

Now I may be wrong on some of this, so I’d love to get a true expert’s take.

One thing I forgot to add to my comment above is that you need a minimum of backspin on all golf shots just to get the ball up in the air. That may be 1,500 RPM for woods and maybe 3,000 for irons.

My point is that increasing backspin beyond this base level will generally reduce carry. For example, I can guarantee that increasing the backspin on your 7 iron from 5k to 7.5k will reduce your carry with that club, even if your swinging faster at 7.5k.

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I totally disagree with your premise. Draws carrying further than fades? That makes no sense.

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Bare in mind tour players play with proper golf clubs which are weak lofted so the people you see hitting a 9 iron further than tour average 8 it’s probably because that 9 iron is closer to a 7 iron loft

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Spin determines weather you hit a draw or fade so logic would dictate distance will also be effected. In my experience draws do tend to be further for 2 reasons and both have to do with spin. With a draw you will usually get more roll out as well as flight because of the decrease in spin. This is especially true with a driver.

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Depends what clubs you are using. There can be as much as 7 degrees of variation between a ‘standard’ loft on a 7 iron. If you’re playing the Callaway Mavrik irons, you’ll get 27 degrees of loft on a 7 iron. If you’re playing the Callaway Apex Pro then its 34 degrees. That’s a two club difference.

I was custom fit recently for the Apex 21’s and currently play Apex MBs. With the MBs my 7 iron has 34 degrees of loft and flies 165yds with 89mph average club head speed. Same swing with the Apex 21s (30 degrees of loft) flies between 177 – 180 yds. Big difference.

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Larry , I would highly recommend you see Mark Evershed . Buy him lunch and get the answers your looking for .

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Hi guys this was a recent session with a cobra 3 wood 16 deg loft.my question is my launch angle seems a little low ,interested in your thoughts .thanks Shot # Club Club Speed (mph) Ball Speed (mph) Smash Factor Launch Angle (degrees) Direction Back Spin (rpm) Carry Distance (yards) Total Distance (yards) 1 3 Wood 94 143 1.52 8.80 Straight 3874.00 215.00 232.00 2 3 Wood 98 148 1.51 9.10 Straight 4096.00 223.00 240.00 3 3 Wood 94 142 1.51 9.10 Straight 3904.00 213.00 230.00 4 3 Wood 94 143 1.52 8.80 Straight 3874.00 215.00 232.00 5 3 Wood 96 145 1.51 9.10 Straight 4000.00 219.00 236.00 6 3 Wood 94 143 1.52 8.80 Straight 3874.00 215.00 232.00 7 3 Wood 94 143 1.52 8.80 Straight 3874.00 215.00 232.00 8 3 Wood 93 141 1.52 8.80 Straight 3826.00 212.00 229.00 9 3 Wood 92 129 1.40 12.40 Straight 4138.00 190.00 207.00 10 3 Wood 94 142 1.51 9.10 Straight 3904.00 213.00 230.00 11 3 Wood 94 142 1.51 9.10 Straight 3904.00 213.00 230.00 12 3 Wood 94 143 1.52 8.80 Straight 3874.00 215.00 232.00 13 3 Wood 96 145 1.51 9.10 Straight 4000.00 219.00 236.00 14 3 Wood 93 140 1.51 9.10 Straight 3856.00 210.00 227.00 15 3 Wood 96 146 1.52 8.80 Straight 3970.00 220.00 237.00 16 3 Wood 92 140 1.52 8.80 Straight 3778.00 210.00 227.00 17 3 Wood 95 144 1.52 8.80 Straight 3922.00 216.00 233.00 18 3 Wood 96 145 1.51 9.10 Straight 4000.00 219.00 236.00 19 3 Wood 94 142 1.51 9.10 Straight 3904.00 213.00 230.00 20 3 Wood 91 137 1.51 9.10 Straight 3760.00 204.00 221.00 21 3 Wood 94 143 1.52 8.80 Straight 3874.00 215.00 232.00 22 3 Wood 95 144 1.52 8.80 Straight 3922.00 216.00 233.00 23 3 Wood 95 144 1.52 8.80 Straight 3922.00 216.00 233.00 24 3 Wood 96 146 1.52 8.80 Straight 3970.00 220.00 237.00 25 3 Wood 96 146 1.52 8.80 Straight 3970.00 220.00 237.00 26 3 Wood 96 145 1.51 9.10 Straight 4000.00 219.00 236.00 27 3 Wood 94 137 1.46 10.60 Straight 4054.00 204.00 221.00 28 3 Wood 94 143 1.52 8.80 Straight 3874.00 215.00 232.00 29 3 Wood 98 142 1.45 10.90 Straight 4276.00 213.00 230.00

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What kind of balls were you using?

Brent. This was at a driving range with srixon range balls

Ok the one number that really stood out to me was the smash factor. Usually anything above a 1.50 indicates something is illegal. There’s a reason not even the PGA tour players aren’t averaging 1.50 off the tee. Other than that your numbers look good.

Brent what about the launch angle

Yes the launch is a little on the low side. But seeing how you’re still getting decent distance I wouldn’t worry too much about how it’s coming out. But try hitting down on the ball more to get it up in the air faster.

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I frequently get above 1.5 on trackman with longer irons and my woods (I have raised this with your tech teams already). This is because your machine measures club speed just before impact and doesn’t detect acceleration through impact

Trackman doesn’t detect acceleration through impact on solidly struck shots so you can post smash factors above 1.5. It’s best to just rely on ball speed with Trackman

Brent in one of your comments you said my smash factor was high ,had a session last night at range and some of my smash factors were 1.53 is this something to try and change and if so how do I change it

Like you had said you were using range balls correct? If so the smash factor will be a little off since they aren’t a legal tournament ball. What the smash factor (as explained to me by the Carolinas PGA rules committee chairman) is, is a measurement of how well the ball comes off the face. There’s a specific calculation for it but I’m not positive of it and anything over a 1.50 usually is a tell tale sign that either the club or ball is illegal. What I would recommend doing is using the ball you would normally play a round with and get some readings off that ball.

I read not long ago that Rory Mcilroy had a smash factor of 1.53 as well . If Willie can hit it 380 the way Rory does, I wouldn’t change a thing.

Larry. I’m 55 years old 280 is my distance not 380 Like Rory

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Ball speed divided by club head speed is smash factor

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I’m currently doing my university project on green-side bunker shots, I was wondering if you have any shot data for a short bunker shot or flop shot? Thanks.

Sorry but we do not have any official data we can share, but it would be interesting to see your final research :)

Blair, My assumption would be that the cleaner a ball is picked out of a bunker the more spin it will have and vice versa. The more sand you use to move the ball the less spin.

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Do you have TrackMan data for AoA and DL for greenside bunker shots?

Sorry we do not have any official bunker shot data.

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In looking at the tour pro stats for men – the max height reading for all clubs is about 30 plus or minus 2. I am trying to understand how/why are the heights the same for all clubs? My assumption would be the more lofted the club the greater the height! Is 30ish the optimum figure for best distance? Because in my last stats my longest 9.5 degree driver shot was max height of 56!

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Is there any data available from the Senior tour?

We do not have any official charts for the Senior Tour. But you can login on mytrackman.com and use the combine section and filter, to show only Senior Tour players.

Thanks Christian!

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what month/year is this data from?

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Is there any data on typical club path for a tour pro?

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Can you please post stats for average path, club face, and face to path numbers for PGA tour?

Could you please post average path, club face, and face to path numbers for several top Tour Players?

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Before all the hype about hitting up on the ball came about, I hit down on a driver anywhere from -2 to -4 degrees and swung 1-2 degrees left.

Once I started to try and swing up on it. I lost direction big time. An easy swing for me is 112, swinging hard at it I can get it up to 123. Does Trackman recommend those that have higher swing speeds to hit down on it for straighter direction?

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There is no physics logic backing up that hitting up on the ball will give a decrease in accuracy. However to go from hitting down to hitting up you have made some changes to your impact obviously. The way you made the changes could well be the problem as this could have affected your impact location, swing path, clubface and the way you release the club

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Can pga tour players carry the ball 293 yards.

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A Question: Were some data change on this site? I ask because I’m quite sure to have read other data for the men’s driver trajectory. Am I wrong or can someone confirm this?

kindly zorro

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Is my impression right, that the data for the men driver were changed from

[Daten alt: 112mph 165mph 11,2° 2685 31y 39° 269y] to [Daten neu: 113mph 167mph 10,9° 2686 32y 38° 275y] ?

Why did TM do that?

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For the tour pro stats – mainly carry distance, launch angle and spin rate for the driver, you have the averages, could you supply the max and min (filtered for outliers)? I am going to run an experiment with Trackman at my golf academy and need a starting range for each item. The tour max and min range is a starting point versus having to create this from scratch.

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Anyone know where I can find raw data of clubhead speed? It is for a College project. Thanks!

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You know what would be great to see – average miss from target – left and right – for each club. Of course short and long from target matter as well, but solid contact isn’t really my issue – left and right misses is my challenge

I’m about a half club off of PGA Tour average distance wise. Technically I’m a 1 handicap, but more like 4 or 5 when the tourney pressure is on. I know from playing with better players the difference between me and them is pretty much how much more accurate they are from a left and right perspective.

You can find all this info from Mark Broadie. He has tracked all the shots on the us tour for years and also written a book Every Shot Counts about it

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I have been playing Golf for less than 19 months. I must admit I was damn tired of the same Golf Lesson producing varying results with inconsistent instruction(s) which seemed contradictory to the previous lesson. I take Golf perhaps a little more serious than others and my “approach” to this game may be viewed as extreme due to my focus on Fitness/Strength Training combined with my Yoga and Nutritional regimen.

That notwithstanding I would like to formally THANK the Trackman Developers and Support Staff for FINALLY producing a “Standardized” curriculum eliminating the traditional random quick fixes and circumventing the often inconsistent and contradictory methods being taught today.

I currently own a Trackman 4 and although I DO NOT wish to teach, I am Certified as an Operator and successful in obtaining my Professional Level 1 & 2 Certifications and shortly will be submitting my Thesis to be considered for review. These Certifications have greatly assisted me in understanding Flight/Ball dynamics and greatly assists my Coach and I in our 4-5 hour daily Putting-Wedge-Iron-Wood and Driver Sessions providing the data necessary to produce a more consistent and …. I have a hard time with this next word…… F U N game. (There I said the word “fun” in the same sentence as “Golf.” I’m so proud of myself!!!

Seriously, I simply CANNOT thank Nathan Meyer for coming to my hometown and demonstrating the enormous benefit(s) of purchasing the Trackman 4 product.

Kym Fontana [email protected]

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It has been an absolute pleasure getting to know you! Your work ethic, attitude, and kindness are all things that I can look up to. very excited for 2017 and I am looking forward to seeing you again soon!

-Nathan Meyer [email protected]

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Are there numbers posted for an average 5 HCP player or 10 HCP player similar to the charts above for the ave tour player?

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What is the #1 PGA Tour player in “Carry Distance” average carry distance??

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I understand this data is pretty old, released soon after the time when trackman first came out. I’m sure things have changed since then. Any update?

Actually, we haven’t seen any huge changes over the past years, it’s more about roundings. For example, Avg. Club Speed for a driver: 2014: 113.0 mph 2015: 113.3 mph 2016: 112.9 mph And it’s pretty much similar with the other numbers.

We do have a graphical updated version of the Tour Stats here.

Not really. Lee Westwood was interviewed recently and advised that apart from his driver he hits everything else almost the exact same he has his entire career.

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I’m looking for PGA tour averages for dynamic loft for different clubs. Does anyone have this data to share? Thanks!

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Are there tour averages for club path?

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Are all these stats full swings? Example: Would the avg tour pro hit a 6-iron further, if he turns fully and tries to hit it as far as possible (with a natural movement like on a driver – not with an unnatural swing that creates most possible power, but result in very unconsistent ball flight)?

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Currently I practice indoors because of the winter. I do my practice with Trackman and I carry my 7 iron about 177-180 yards and total distance of 188-192 yards with my TaylorMade PSi irons. Lots of my shots with the 7 iron has a smash factor of 1.50-1.51.

This is a example of one of my shots with 7 iron.

Club speed: 80.2 | AoA: 1.3 | Ball speed: 120.5 | Carry: 164 meter | Total: 176 meter | Dyn Loft: 19.6 | Smash Factor: 1.50

Is that normal number for a 7 iron with a that club speed?

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Averages are useful, but knowing them would be more useful if we knew the median and mode, as well as the range.

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Hello, Are there updated PGA Tour Trackman stats?

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On Trackman this week using 7i I noticed the spin rate I had was well below that of a pro by nearly 3,000 rpm but similar club speed and attack angle. How can I get my spin rate up?

It can vary a lot due to the ball and clubs you are using. For example driving range balls are normally very hard and will have much lower spinrates than a quality ball like a Titleist pro v1. Modern day irons are also built to higher the lauch angle and lower the spinrate so that the average golfer will achieve more distance

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It would be great to know the average loft for each club, especially the irons!. I think 21-24-27-30-34-38-42-46 (3-Pw) are reasonable specs. What do you guys think?

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What loft are the irons? A modern 7i is now 30°

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Is this still the original data from 2015 or has it been updated?

I’d be very curious to see if the how the average attack angle has changed over this time in the PGA.

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Please update this data from over the years of more testing.

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Do you have any numbers on tour averages numbers on dynamic loft and spin loft?

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I am a 2 handicapper and I hit my driver 280 yards on an average. What is the attack angle with driver of the best players on the pga tour?

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these yardages are no doubt well below reality.

6 iron only 183yds carry? Most high handicappers hit it equally far.

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Golf Club Distances w/ Chart | Averages for Am & Pro Players

Last Updated on July 25, 2021

Golf Club Distances w/ Chart | Averages for Am & Pro Players

Distance is critical in golf. As golfers, we're always striving for more distance off the tee and consistent yardage gaps between the rest of our clubs.

In this guide, we'll break down how far amateur golfers of various skill levels and swing speeds hit each of their clubs to give you an idea of how you stack up. We've also included PGA and LPGA carry distance averages to see how you compare with the pros.

After that, we'll cover what factors affect your golf club distances and explain how to find out how far you hit each club.

Golf Club Distances Table

The table below shows how far golfers of various skill levels and swing speeds hit each club. 

We've included PGA and LPGA carry distance averages of professional golfers that TrackMan gathered . 

For amateur male golfers, we've split them into groups of "short," "mid," and "long" hitters. All distances refer to carry distance (distance until the ball first hits the ground) rather than total distance (carry and roll).

While TrackMan gathered extremely accurate data for LPGA and PGA carry distance averages, good data for amateurs is harder to come by. 

There's a massive gap in skill-level and swing speeds among amateur golfers. Golfers of various handicaps also achieve their handicaps in a variety of ways. A 5-handicap golfer could be a super fast swinger in their athletic prime or a senior golfer who has lost distance over the years.

For our amateur short, mid, and long hitting male amateur distances, we relied on the limited available large sample data and what we've seen personally from loads of amateur golfers.

Because these yardages are for golfers of all ages, junior, middle-aged, and especially senior golfers may find themselves with distances closer to the "Short Hitting Male Amateurs" column. Most young adult to middle-aged male golfers should carry the ball to at least the "Mid-Length Male Amateurs" distances, while faster swingers of these ages can reach the distances in the "Long Male Amateurs" column.

Lastly, aside from LPGA professionals, we didn't include other female golfers in our distance table. There's even less data available for amateur female golfers than for male amateurs. We've also found a more considerable disparity in how far female recreational players hit the ball. Basically, we weren't confident we could provide any accurate/valuable information for female amateurs' distances.

What Affects Distance in Golf

There are a lot of factors that influence your golf club distances.

Club speed is the most significant factor in determining distance .

To illustrate this, look at the correlation of club head speed vs carry distance for PGA Tour players in the scatter plot below:

2020 PGA Tour Players  Average Club Head Speed vs Average Carry Distance

Assuming all other things are equal, more swing speed means more energy that can be transferred from the club to the golf ball, resulting in higher ball speed. Higher ball speed means the ball will travel a further distance.

Factors like impact location on the club face, club path, spin rate, and launch angle also play a large part in how far a ball travels.

Impact Location Golf Iron and Driver Sweet Spot

An impact out of the "sweet spot" of your irons or woods will lead to a higher smash factor than strikes that are too low, too high, off the toe, or off the heel.

Smash factor is a calculation of how well you converted club speed into ball speed (Smash Factor = Ball Speed / Club Speed).

In particular, strikes out of the heel and low strikes can kill distance with the driver.

Strike Location Affect on Ball Speed, Spin Rate, and Distance

If you struggle to consistently hit the ball with or near the sweet spot of your club face, you'll have issues with the consistency of your yardages.

Spin Rate and Club Path

Spin rate plays a large role in how far you'll hit the ball and the shapes of your shots.

A lot of golfers put too much spin on the ball with their driver either because of too much club loft, poor strikes (bad impact location), or poor club face control (the direction the club face is aimed relative to your swing path).

If you feel you're hitting the ball well but should be getting a few more yards, work with a club-fitter to see if your driver has too much loft. The ideal spin rate depends on your club speed , but too much spin will cost you yards.

Slices and hooks are caused by the club face being aimed too open ( slice ) or too closed ( hook ) relative to the club path. This can lead to both too much spin and the ball's spin axis being too strongly left-to-right or right-to-left.

Spin-Tilt Axis Source: ForeSight Sports

If your club face is open (aimed right) relative to your club path, this can both cause too much spin and will cause the ball to spin too left-to-right on its spin axis . You'll lose a lot of yards from a slice as the ball travels left-to-right rather than straight.

Launch Angle

For each club, there is an optimal amount of spin and an optimal launch angle. Launch angle is the angle of a golf ball's initial ascent relative to the ground.

Golf Ball Launch Angle

Launching the ball too high or too low will cost you distance.

While launch angle problems could be due to your swing, they can also be caused by playing the wrong clubs for your swing. If you feel like you're hitting the ball too high or too low, work with a club-fitter to dial in your clubs.

Factors Out of Your Control

There are also factors out of your control that can affect distance, like temperature and altitude.

Every 10 degrees that the temperature rises can easily lead to a couple of yards of additional ball flight with a driver.

If you drive the ball 240 yards at sea level, you will carry it around 255 yards in Denver's mile high altitude.

How to Find Your Distances

If you're looking to better understand how far you hit each club, we'd recommend purchasing a launch monitor or finding a range with a launch monitor.

To get accurate distances, you'll also want to make sure that you're hitting the same golf balls you normally play on the course.

Many golf ranges have cheap, inconsistent, or even balls purposefully made not to fly as far as normal golf balls.

Your typical range ball can easily cost you 10+ yards with the driver, while a limited flight range ball can lose you 30+ yards of distance with driver compared to a premium golf ball.

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How Far Do Pro Golfers Hit Each Club? A 2022 Guide

Graeme Hay

Written by Graeme Hay | Last Updated: 12/03/2024

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When you watch the PGA Tour or any major championship on TV it is hard not to notice how far pro golfers hit the ball.

Their drives seem to always go miles and I don’t know about you but I’m always checking myself to think whether I indeed heard the commentator correctly that they are actually hitting that high an iron for that 200+ yard approach shot.

So just to confirm what we are indeed up against we took a detailed look at just how far the top pros are hitting their clubs.

On average pros drive the ball a total of 296.6 yards (yds) according to official PGA Shotlink data. They hit a 3-wood an average carry distance of 249 yds, a 5-wood 235 yds and 3-hybrids 230 yds. 3-irons average 217 yds, 4-irons 208 yds, 5-irons 199 yds, 6-irons 188 yds, 7-irons 177 yds, 8-irons 164 yds and 9-irons 153 yds.

These high-level numbers of course don’t always tell the whole story as the pros like us are faced with an infinite variety of golf shots which don’t always mean they are hitting each club as far as they possibly can for every shot.

But if you take the averages over a season you are going to get more than a good idea of how far the pros are hitting each club.

What is fascinating also though as you dig more into the figures is the distance control options the best players in the world have with almost every club in their bag!

Bryson DeChambeau hitting a wood

How Far Do Pros Hit Their Driver and Woods?

When it comes to talking about distance in golf the easiest and most obvious place to start is of course always with the longest club in the golf bag – the driver.

And as it is highly unlikely even the best pros in the world never want to hit their driver as far as they can so it is clearly the club we are going to get the best idea of the maximum distance they hit the ball.

So how far do pros drive?

PGA Tour players hit their driver a ‘total’ of 296.6 yards on average with a ‘carry’ distance of 284.3 yards according to official 2022 Shotlink data. The longest player hits it 320 yards on average and the longest recorded drive in 2022 is 460 yards. On the LPGA Tour the top pros hit their driver an average of 257.7 yards.

When it comes to how far the pros hit a 3 wood and the other longer clubs in the bag including their hybrids the distance analysis gets a bit more complicated because clearly the pros are starting to use these clubs for a wider variety type of shots than they do for their driver.

The pros, like the rest of us, will be hitting a driver as far as they can 99% of the time but when it comes to their 3-wood, 5-wood and hybrids they can be using those clubs off the tee and for approach shots and will not always be aiming for their maximum yardage with those clubs.

The best distance comparison we have for those clubs is therefore the ‘carry distance’. In other words the distance from where they hit the ball to the point of impact on the ground.

On average PGA Tour pros hit a 3-wood a ‘carry’ distance of 249 yards. By comparison a 5-wood carries 235 yards and hit a 3 hybrid, which measures from 19º to 21º, an average carry distance of 230 yards. On the LPGA Tour the top women pros carry a 3-wood 195 yards, a 5-wood 185 yards and a 7-wood 174 yards on average.

For those of you interested in how these averages compare to individual pros we have listed in the table below the average ‘stock’ carry yardages for a selection of the top pros when it comes to how far they hit their driver.

In the following table the list shows how far a selection of PGA and LPGA Tour pros hit their 3-wood, 5-wood and hybrid clubs.

[Note – If you are interested in what drivers and fairway woods the top 100 PGA Tour players are using check out the in-depth analysis we have done here .]

How Far Do Pros Hit Their Irons? Remember to Take Stock

Looking at how far pros hit their irons is a much easier task these days due to all the tracking technology that exists however it still does not make it an exact science.

And that is for the simple reason that pros will hit all manner of a variety of different shots with their irons, especially for their approach shots, and as such, they will hit the same iron a variety of different distances.

A look at Brooks Koepka’s yardage book below gives us a great insight into this and highlights how many types of shots pros can play with their irons.

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For example for a 170 yard shot into the green a quick glance at his iron yardages shows he could decide to play either a three-quarter 8-iron or try to hit a 9-iron as far as he can – his ‘max’ distance for that club.

When you account for factors such as wind, elevation, ground conditions and also the context in which the shot is being played Koepka, like all the pros, has a number of options for each iron shot which makes the question of how far he hits each iron a bit more complex than at first you may think.

However the pros have what is called a ‘stock’ yardage for their irons, which equates essentially to the average distance they will hit a full shot with each iron swinging normally.

When we compare these ‘stock yardages’ for irons between the pros we get a consistent view of yardage which we can accurately compare across the players.

On average PGA pros hit a 3-iron a ‘carry’ distance – the distance from strike to point of ground impact – of 217 yards. They hit 4-irons 208 yards and 5-irons 199 yards on average. For 6-irons the average is 188 yards, for 7-irons it is 177 yards and 8-irons, 9-irons and pitching wedges go 164, 153 and 141 yards respectively.

Different pros however clearly hit their irons different distances but in the table below we have listed the ‘stock yardages’ of some of the top pros, including Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas and Bryson DeChambeau, to let you see how they compare against the average.

And when it comes to how far Tiger Woods, arguably the greatest iron player of all time, hits his irons?

Tiger hits his 3-iron a ‘carry’ distance of 240 yards on average while his 4-iron goes 225 yards and 5-iron 210 yards. When it comes to his mid-irons he hits his 6-iron and 7-iron 195 and 180 yards. As for his short irons his 8-iron yardage is 165, he hits his 9-iron 150 yards and his pitching wedge 135 yards on average.

How Far Do Pros Hit Their Wedges

When it comes to looking at how far the pros hit their wedges the stock yardage they hit each club is again obviously only one of the multiple yardages they can hit the most versatile clubs in any player’s golf bag.

As we can again see from Brooks Koepka’s yardage book above he has 5 different yardages listed for each of his specialist wedges which highlights just how much distance control the best golfers in the world can exert with their wedges.

Another added complication when it comes to comparing the distances that the pros hit their wedges is the differing lofts each of them often carries for seemingly the same club.

Rory McIlroy completed swing with an iron

For example while one pro’s ‘gap wedge’ may be 50º another may choose 53 or even 54º for that same ‘gap wedge’ club and with such a difference in lofts it becomes very difficult to compare with any meaning how far the pros hit the same-named wedge.

Assuming however the pros are hitting ‘standard’ lofted pitching, gap, sand and lob wedges we found the following stock distances for how far the pros hit them .

As a whole PGA pros hit their pitching wedge an average carry distance of 141 yards. They hit 52º gap wedges a stock carry distance of between 126 and 135 yards and carry 56º sand wedges an average distance of 119 to 124 yards. Standard 60º lob wedges meanwhile carry 95 to 105 yards on average.

While these yardages will give you a general guide as to how far pros hit their wedges it is important to remember how particular all the pros are about these clubs especially.

It is vital for them to know exactly how far they hit their wedges with a variety of different types of shots because feel is so important from those short distances, especially at the top level of the game, where a yard or two can make the difference between winning or losing a tournament.

That is why you will find some pros’ wedges measured up to 0.5º or even 0.25º when listed and it is also likely that some of the actual strengths of the wedge lofts they use may in reality be stronger (i.e. a lower loft) or a touch weaker (i.e. a higher loft) than the actual degree loft number shown on their club.

To help however answer the question as well as we can the table below shows the varying distances some of the top pros, including Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson, are hitting their wedges, together with the degrees of loft their clubs are listed at.

Before you go …

While it is great to find out how far the top players are hitting the ball it is even better to know the reasons why they achieve the huge distances they get.

Is it simply down to the fact that they have access to the latest and best equipment or is it something else?

Read our next article to discover the real reasons the pros hit the ball as far as they do, and how you can potentially add 20 to 30 yards to your drives!

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Average Golf Club Distances: Charts for All Skill Levels

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Interested in knowing how far you should be able to hit a ball with a specific club? We found out.

Here are some estimated golf club distances a newer golfer could aim for:

  • Driver: 225 yards
  • 3 Wood: 205 yards
  • 5 Wood: 190 yards
  • 4 Iron: 175 yards
  • 5 Iron: 165 yards
  • 6 Iron: 155 yards
  • 7 Iron: 145 yards
  • 8 Iron: 135 yards
  • 9 Iron: 125 yards
  • PW: 120 yards
  • SW: 90 yards

Your distances will vary, and I advise clients to hit the range with all of your clubs to find your exact distances. Read on because you won’t want to miss the exact approach I recommend so you can choose the right clubs for your game. 

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Distance By Swing Speed

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As a general guide, anything above 20 is considered a high handicap, 10-20 is a medium handicapper, and <10 is a low handicapper. 

However, your swing speed will greatly impact your average distance. You’ll also get more distance if you swing faster than the average golfer. 

Here are some examples:

Note: These golf club distance charts are based on averages according to published data.

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As a general guide, female high handicappers are 35 and above, medium handicappers are 25 – 35, and low handicappers are less than 25. 

How do the pros compare to us mere mortals? Here are the facts you can use to impress your buddies. 

Source: PGA Shotlink 2022

But these distances are just the averages. In recent years, LIV golfer Bryson DeChambeau has been the biggest hitter on tour with over 310-yard drives. 

Plus, the best data available tracks carry distance for the PGA and LPGA players. Their full shot distances are longer. This distance from the tee to the first bounce does not include the subsequent roll.  For example, the average full driver distance on the PGA tour is roughly 320 yards. It’s safe to say that PGA pros drive the ball much further than the average golfer. 

However, recently, there’s some news that golf’s governing bodies are trying to limit the drives of the pros.

The USGA and R&A are looking at the massive drives of golf pros and claim it can damage the sport. They propose to limit the pros to using a new type of ball that would reduce most drives by about 15 yards. As you can imagine, many golf pros aren’t happy about this, but Rory supports it .

Of course, amateurs like us don’t need to worry — unless you’re bombing +300-yard drives at your local course.

The expectation of every generation that they’re going to hit it longer than the previous generation, we think that is taking golf in the wrong direction. And we do see some really good opportunities to mitigate these pressures. USGA CEO Mike Davis

The professional ladies can hit further than the male high handicappers as well. 

Source: TrackMan 2022

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The fastest way to establish your average distance benchmarks is to record your shots at the driving range. Start with your 7-iron, PW, and driver. If you hit each club 50 times and eliminate the 5 worst and 5 best, that will give you a fairly accurate idea of your average with that club. 

I’ve tried this at my local driving range, and it can take a few hours. You’ll also go through plenty of buckets of balls. But that’s time well spent. Now, I’m confident that when choosing clubs, I know how far I’ll be able to hit it. That wasn’t always the case, as I was often unsure, which affected my swing. If you go with a buddy, then this can be a fun and productive way to spend a Saturday.

The same can be done on the course, but it will not be as accurate and will take much longer. Having a great rangefinger and the best golf apps are the way to improve your accuracy. I also use yardage markers. These can vary from course to course but are generally color-coded markers displaying 200 (normally blue), 150 (normally white), and 100 yards (normally red). One can pace backward or forward from the nearest marker to determine your golf club distance.

The best approach is to use both the range and the course and keep track of your averages and progress. This is an excellent exercise for beginner golfers, and keeping a log book or journal of your distances is a good idea.

Read more: If you want to get more distance from your irons, check out our full review of the best player’s distance irons .

Golf club distance charts with averages do not give the full picture as there are so many other factors to consider, but they do make for a useful starting point. These charts illustrate the relevant differences between the various club distances across skill levels. 

You can take this info and use it as aims to target. But you want to take other factors into account as well.

Of course, there are several things you can do to improve your golf and reduce your score , but knowing your range of golf club distances well will help you make smart decisions on the course. It will take some time and effort but has the potential to dramatically improve your enjoyment of the game as well as your score.

You will have to know your average for your swing and style and with your particular clubs. The saved yards and better lies will still positively impact your results. Of course, it always helps to hit the sweet spot when it comes to distance!

Do it. You won’t regret it.

Read more: For a step-by-step approach to getting more distance from your driver , check out our full article.

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Clint is PGA-certified and was a Head Teaching Professional at one of Toronto's busiest golf academies. He was also featured on Canada's National Golf TV program, "Score Golf Canada," twice. He graduated with a degree in Golf Management from the College of the Desert in California and studied under Callaway's co-founder, Tony Manzoni.

He has a handicap index of 6.2 and spends the winters near Oaxaca, Mexico, where he plays twice a month at the Club de Golf Vista Hermosa. He's written over 100 articles at GolfSpan since 2021. You can connect with Clint at   LinkedIn , FB , his website , or [email protected] .

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Golf Club Distance Guide: How Far Should I Be Hitting My Clubs?

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Ok, so let me ask you a quick question, have you ever met anyone that’s ever said “I wish I didn’t hit the ball as far.”? Yeah, me neither.

Distance is just one of those things that people look at as the Holy Grail. Sure, being a great putter and being able to sink 10 footers consistently will lower your scores but everyone wants to be able to hit the ball far.

Take the numbers we show below with a grain a salt since you might have a guy who’s a 14 handicap and crushes the ball but can’t sink a putt to save his life.  On the other end, you might be the guy who only hits a driver 200 yards but whenever you get inside a 100 yards, you’re an assassin.

As a general rule though, the farther you hit the ball, the lower your handicap will be.

Now before we dive into how far you should be hitting your clubs, let’s start by getting a baseline of how far pros and top amateurs really hit the ball.

Men’s PGA Tour Pro Golf Club Distances

Now before you start diving into these numbers, keep 1 thing in mind. In the world there are about 60,000,000 people who describe themselves as golfers and only about 125 carry PGA Tour Card. So what we’re talking about here are (get ready for this) the top .0002% of all golfers in the world, yikes!

Here’s some data we were able to get from Trackman :

The one number you may not be familiar in the above chart is the column called “Smash Factor”. All this number is, is the ball speed/clubhead speed and it indicates the quality of contact with the ball.

The higher the smash factor, the better contact you’re making and therefore getting maximum ball speed when leaving the club face which then translates to overall carry distance.

Men’s Scratch Golfer (0 Handicap) Golf Club Distances

A scratch golfer is someone who carries a handicap of 0. What this basically means is that on a par 72 course with a rating of 72, a scratch golfer is someone capable of shooting even par. Notice I said “capable” not average, because that’s what a handicap measures; the potential of what the player CAN shoot.

Now when you look at the number of golfers who are scratch, you’re talking about the Top 1% of all golfers or about 600,000 total in the world.

So I’m sure as you can notice, the scratch golfer is right up there when it comes to distances of what a tour pro hits, maybe 1 club less.

The real differences that can’t be measured by distance are things like putting, greens in regulation, fairways hit, bunker saves, scrambling, etc…

Men’s Average Golfer (14 handicap) Golf Club Distances

So this is where the vast majority of golfers lie. The median (50% above and 50% below) handicap is about a 13. These golfers usually shoot in the low 90’s/high 80’s with the occasional round in the mid 80’s.

As you can see in the numbers above, there is quite a significant difference between the distances of the average golfer and the scratch golfer; about 25-30 yards or 2-3 clubs.

Initially you may be thinking, oh, i just need to swing the club faster! Kinda like this guy:

Well yes and no, remember that little thing I mentioned earlier called “Smash Factor” that takes into consideration the quality of your ball striking?

Even with a very forgiving driver or set of irons , simply swinging harder may lead to more distance but will most probably lead to poorer contact, less distance, and loss of control. For example, let’s take throwing darts. Imagine you have to hit a bullseye from 8 feet away, you’d probably throw the dart at a comfortable speed that you can control.

Now imagine you’re told to hit a bullseye throwing the dart as hard a humanly possible, good luck with that!

Swinging at 100% effort on every shot, you’re going to end up with clubface looking like this one:

picture of driver with ball marks

(photo from Golfwrx )

Here’s a great article showing the clubface shot dispersion by handicap level.

Now you start adding the differences in the short game and you can see why there is a 14 stroke gap between these types of players.

There’s Hope Though!

So at this point you may feel a little discouraged about where you are compared to other golfers. You may find yourself close to these numbers but you may also find that you’re way off.

Golf is a tough game, while the swing itself is one of the most complex athletic movements. Toss in the other variable like the mental game and you can why sometimes it can take years to become consistent and improve.

While it remains one of the hardest sports in the world, let’s talk about some simple things you can start doing right away to help you improve faster by hitting the ball further and shoot lower scores.

4 Things To Help You Hit The Ball Farther

Hit the sweetspot.

Hopefully you’re convinced that JUST swinging harder isn’t the answer! You need to be focused on making good contact.

To figure out where you’re making contact by getting can of foot powder spray a put some on the club face. Next, go ahead and take a swing and notice where you hit the ball. Now remember that feeling and repeat.

After a while you’ll start to be able to “feel” where you’re making contact on the clubface.

From here I would focus mainly on making good contact, even if that means slowing down your swing and only going at 75% percent. As you start gaining confidence, you can start to swing a little bit harder and who knows, you might start looking like this guy!

Take Lessons

One of the quickest ways to improve is to get professional advice from a PGA Teaching Professional .

I know lessons can be expensive but getting expert advice from another pair of eyes can take your game to the next level.

Sometimes what we feel we’re doing is actually different from what we’re really doing. By getting someone to analyze your swing and make some suggestions/tips based on accurate feedback is invaluable.

Whether it’s just a single drop in lesson or someone you want to start working with consistently, getting lessons early on can only help!

Upgrade Your Equipment

As a beginner or even a mid handicapper, getting the latest golf tech can provide dramatic improvements to your game.

Whether it’s a new set irons or the latest driver, investing in new clubs every few years is a good decision.

For me personally, I used to play a TaylorMade TP R510 Driver from the early 2000’s for almost 15 years! When I upgraded to a TaylorMade R1 I saw almost 15 yards in added distance. Trust me, I wish I would’ve upgraded much sooner!

Get In Shape

And now finally, we’ve come to the one everyone will probably like the least; start working out regularly!

Golf. Is. A. Sport. Start training like it!

In case you haven’t noticed, the vast majority of the top golfers in the world take their fitness very serious; Brooks Koepka, Rory McIlory, Dustin Johnson and of course the guy who started it all Tiger.

It may seem like a lot but if you’re not sure where to start, then we got the perfect program just for you over here .

There you have it, you know where you stand and you know where you would like to be.

Golf is a difficult game but like anything, putting in the time to get better is the quickest way to improve.

Or on the flipside, maybe you don’t care what you shoot and you just like being outside, spending time with friends.

Either way, get out there, just have fun, and enjoy the game and all it has to offer!

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One of the nice things about having all this new fancy technological equipment like Trackman, Flightscope, ShotLink, etc., at various PGA Tour events is that distance data can be gathered for each of the players.

In case you haven’t come across it already, here are the approximate Trackman carry distance averages for men at the professional level.

Average PGA Tour Carry Distances (yards)

Pretty cool info. Perhaps they hit it farther than you might have thought…or maybe they hit less than you may have been lead to believe based on what you’ve seen on TV, read on the internet, etc.

Since I deal a lot with swing speed training and helping people in general hit the ball farther, a relatively common question I get is, “How far should I hit my clubs for my swing speed?”

Well, since we also know that the average driver swing speed on Tour typically runs around 112 to 113 mph, using a bit of algebra and the above distances we can approximate a guide for how far you could expect to hit the ball (assuming fairly consistent and solid contact) given your personal driver swing speed.

Here are those carry distances.

Approximate Carry Distances by Driver Swing Speed (mph)

Approximate Carry Distances by Driver Swing Speed (mph)

I took the ranges down to 60 and 70 mph because those are swing speeds I’ll encounter when working with some amateur women and seniors. I also went up to 140 mph because numerous long drivers I’ve trained can get their drivers up that high (RE/MAX World Long Drive champions like Joe Miller, Jamie Sadlowski and Ryan Winther can actually reach over 150 mph).

Aside from using the chart as a general reference point, here are a few other things that I think are worth pointing out:

First, these numbers are based off how the average Tour player strikes the ball. Although Tour players are overall good ball strikers with all their clubs, most of them are actually not as efficient (the Tour average is about 2.58 yards/mph of swing speed) as they can be when it comes to distance with their drivers because on average they hit drives that launch too low and with too much spin.

LGPA Tour players (2.65 yards/mph of swing speed) and Professional Long Drivers are actually more distance efficient with their drivers…but that’s a topic for another article. The good news for you is that greater carry and total-driving distances can be achieved at all the range of swing speeds shown above if you are a more efficient driver than the average male tour player at 2.58 yards/mph of swing speed.

With a 2-degree change in driver loft and some minor adjustments made to his swing path, angle of attack, etc, one of my amateur students went from being an already above-average efficient driver at 2.61 yards/mph to an extremely efficient one at 2.75 yards/mph. So with no change to his 102 mph swing speed, he increased his driving distance average from 266 to 280. Then after some swing speed training, he got up to 112 mph and can now hit drives around 307 yards with that same efficiency of 2.75 yards/mph. That’s 41 more yards!

Second, the club distances are based on the driver swing speeds that you would get from a system like FlightScope and Trackman. So if at all possible, get yourself checked on one of those. Otherwise, if you measure with something like a Speed Stik (which measure higher in my experience), you could get a false sense of how far you might expect to hit the ball.

As another example, Sports Sensors Swing Speed Radars (SSR) also read faster. It should be pointed out that SSRs are still a great personal training aid, and because of their accuracy and relative affordability and portability, they are actually the radar I recommend in my swing speed training programs.

However, the Doppler radar in an SSR measures the fastest moving part of the club head (typically the toe) versus a Trackman or FlightScope, which each have proprietary algorithms to calculate the speed at the center of the club face. For this reason, SSRs will read about 5 to 12 percent faster, depending on how you as an individual move the driver through impact. If you have an SSR, just hit 5 to 10 balls with it and a Trackman or FlightScope at the same time and you’ll find out your personal difference for sake of comparison.

Third, the above numbers can be useful for a good general reference, but like I mentioned in my article about understand distance variance , recognize that carry distances can vary a lot depending on conditions. Slopes, wind, temperature, altitude, etc., are all things that can affect how far the ball flies, so remember to factor that in.

Fourth, keep in mind potential loft differences between your clubs and the ones here. As a general rule of thumb, club manufacturers have made their club lofts (especially in the irons) continually stronger over the years as a way of marketing and selling consumers the new clubs.

Many top Tour players are being paid to play the latest clubs, which could mean they might also be playing irons with stronger lofts than the set you are playing. This isn’t always the case, however, but it’s another thing to be aware of.

Last, once you start approaching less than 80 mph with the driver, notice how the distances start bunching up between clubs.  At this point, you start getting to an area where you really don’t need a full set of 14 clubs. If this is you, perhaps you might also find that you hit a 3-wood or 5-wood further than a normal driver.

My wife is very strong and athletic, however, as a beginner who doesn’t play or practice very much, she hasn’t developed much swing speed. For that reason, we got her fitted for a 9-club set of Wishon 730CLs, a set that is designed specifically for men and women with less than 80 mph of club head speed.

The shafts are very light, the driver is 16 degrees and only 42 inches, the fairway woods are 20 and 26 degrees (versus the commonly used 15- and 19-degree fairway woods), and the remaining hybrids/irons are gapped out in 6-degree loft increments (compared to the normal 3- or 4-degree). Also, since many beginners, lesser skilled players and those with slower swing speeds can struggle with really high lofted wedges, the highest lofted wedge in the set is 54 degrees.

All of these things combine to provide a driver that can actually be hit in the air for distance, clubs that have substantial distance gapping, plus it’s just less clubs in general to lug around and choose from.

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Apr 26, 2021 at 8:47 am

I got a swing speed of 78mph with my i7 (31°) and my average carry is 155yards

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Wileetoyote

Mar 10, 2018 at 12:25 pm

Your chart numbers are pretty accurate for me… I’m a 51 yr old with a single digit handicap and an avg (semi-aggressive) swing speed of 105mph. I bounce between your 100-110 number up and down the scale depending on a pure hit vs a toe hit and if I’m looking for a smooth hit at 80% or going after it at 90%. Anything overly aggressive (beyond 90%) would result in a miss hit half the time so I try to avoid that.

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Feb 14, 2018 at 6:58 am

I just saw a video of you on you tube using both the swing speed radar and ,i think, a flight scope and the flight scope swing speeds were higher yet in the above blog you stated that the swing speed radar was most likely to read higher. Did that you tube video change your mind about that information as perhaps the swing speed radar readings are apt to be LOWER than one of those more expensive swing speed measuring devices

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Jan 5, 2018 at 8:41 am

I just reread this article. The chart confirms something I noticed years ago, and that is my distances do not conform to the norm. On longer clubs, such as driver, fairways and hybrids I am less efficient. With an average driver swing speed of 95 my longer club averages are closer to a 90 SS or a little lower. My iron distances are closer to the 100 SS averages. I would think a lot of people are similar unless they are a plus handicap. Thanks for the information.

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Apr 26, 2018 at 7:43 am

Chart is not perfect and everything is subject to centeredness of contact.

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May 17, 2018 at 9:35 am

Then make a perfect chart.

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Jan 2, 2018 at 6:48 pm

Interesting article but these numbers are way off. Understanding that the same swing speed can produce a variety of distances based on strike, AOA, etc these numbers still same significantly lower than the expected results. A 90 mph 7 iron is easily getting 170 carry on a quality strike. This chart has it at 138!!! That just does not add up. I think TM or GC2 have charts that provide more accurate information.

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Jan 9, 2018 at 1:12 pm

Re-read the header of the table, “Approximate Carry Distances by Driver Swing Speed”. You will likely have about a 110 mph driver SS to have a 90 mph 7iron SS. The 110 mph column shows a 169 yard carry for a 7 iron.

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Sep 23, 2018 at 3:44 am

Do many golfers mix and match brands of clubs? As a newbie, I’m hoping that the G30 driver will suit me as I bought the G30 irons and would like a matching set purely for aesthetics. I appreciate your input!

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May 15, 2018 at 1:33 pm

90mph swing carrying 170yds, are you on crack????

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terry Langaard

Apr 19, 2016 at 11:52 pm

I had to change my swing because i have 2 blown discs in my back. so this year i changed my swing with a draw on it.maybe. maybe 1oomph, how far should my clubs go. driver 3wood 7 wood 4 hybrid 5 6 7 8 9 p 52 56 60. just something to go on. thanks terry l

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Feb 12, 2016 at 9:56 pm

Hi Jaacob. I spent some time with your exercises. And it helped. I went from 97mph to 107. Then i read Kelvin miyahiras work and swing at 115-120. I found your exercies made me more explosive. I also deloft more now so ball speed is up. Swinging my 7 iron about 97MPH and hitting it 190-210 depending on shot shape. Golf is a different game knowing any hole under 340 is reachable with a good bounce or two.

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May 15, 2020 at 9:45 am

7 iron going carrying 190-210 with a 97 mph swing isn’t possible unless you have quite a bit of down wind. My ss is 122 mph with driver and my ss with 7 iron is 103 mph and I carry it 190 on average. Something about your post isn’t right. Also there is no way you go from 97 to 120 mph no matter how much time you spend in the gym lifting weights, stretching, balance exercises and doing explosive movements. I am a certified trainer and I’ve had countless clients I have trained for golf.

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Apr 22, 2015 at 12:29 pm

Jaacob – Great article! Lots of information in both the article itself and the detailed responses to questions and comments. A lot to digest here. I’m a 75 year old 4-handicap with a measured driver clubhead speed of 92-94 mph – and your distance chart scales pretty well throughout the bag. Specific distances will vary with lofts, attack angles, conditions, type of shot (draw, cut, knock-down, etc.) and all the rest – but at first blush, when you go to pick a club for a particular shot, that’s a good place to start. (And most of the time, we would be pretty happy with a ±5-10 yard variation in distance to a tight pin!) Nice work.

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Nov 21, 2014 at 7:25 am

just curiosity. As soon as the SLDR came out i bought it and i was driving it 280-85 total. 67 gram stiff shaft 9.5 Today im playing with the Cobra bio cell + and im driving it 290-300 when very solid. Stiff 9.5 65 gram

Is it suppose to change so much distance ? Sorry if any miss spelling haha im not american

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Nov 20, 2014 at 2:29 pm

My swing speed is 95-98 mph and I drive the ball 225-250 yards. I hit my 7 iron 145 ish. My father has a swing speed of 70 mph but he hits a club further than me. Is this just all in my timing or is he an exeprion?

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May 25, 2018 at 1:20 pm

Ha! My swing speed was just tested with my new ping G400’s and I hit 9 iron 150 and g25 driver avg 260-280 so what’s wrong with this picture?

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Aug 18, 2014 at 11:59 am

I’m 47, and can hit 7 iron about 155-160 consistently. My driver is a Ping 8.5 loft. My distance with it is not good at all, in fact it’s about on par with my 3wood distance. Do you think a shorter driver shaft and higher loft would help? The trajectory looks decent, not excessively low or high, but the distance isn’t there. Also, any ball recommendation? harder or softer for best distance?

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Aug 20, 2014 at 6:20 pm

Yea . I suggest lofting up and trying a light weight shaft, with a high kick point for low spin, which wouldn’t the height because of the new loft you would be trying out. But it could mean you have a steep swing, rember to hit up on the ball And yes I’m not a pro but have lots of experience.

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Nov 8, 2014 at 10:46 pm

I’d recommend you check out a lower spin driver. Get your back spin down to 2200 rpm with the driver and see how that works for you. Don’t concern yourself with loft or shaft length. The Ping I series should have less spin than the G series but don’t be afraid to try other manufacturers. Personally, I tried a lot of drivers and shafts and lofts until I fooled around with some low spin drivers in a launch monitor. My driving distance has gone way up. A 10.5° loft low spin driver goes lower and further for me compared to a 9° higher spin driver which goes higher and shorter.

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Dec 23, 2015 at 8:17 pm

Get a driver with more loft. Woods uses a driver with 11.25 degrees of loft and he hits it a lot harder than you (or I) do. The newer balls (not wound) don’t spin as much and so need to be hit higher to start. They start losing trajectory right from the tee – an arcing trajectory, not like the older balls that would go in a straight line or even rise until the apex of the shot.

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Sep 8, 2016 at 6:12 am

I also was using a driver with around 8 deg as i play links in Scotland and thought that was the ideal for low flying drives but after learning alot from trackman and local pro’s im now up at 11 deg and have learned to hit it low if required, i had huge spin numbers before this change, i suspect you have the same.

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Aug 1, 2014 at 3:35 am

The driver/wood/hybrid numbers appear to be about right, but I must be insanely efficient with my irons. At 78 mph, my Titleist AP2 6 iron carries 150 according to GC2 hitting indoors off a mat(actually 155 on the course). The remaining irons are approx. 10 yards apart. All are stock loft/length/lie. I also strike the ball very well which may be the difference.

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Jul 14, 2014 at 6:25 pm

Hi. There is a really useful piece of technology that exists that can help you understand how your stock carry numbers change with different playing conditions. It definitely compliments launch monitor technology and its outputs.

FlagHi app calculates the effects of the playing conditions on the carry number for each of your clubs.

You guys (and ladies) have known forever that the ball goes farther when it’s hotter. Or that when playing at higher elevation it goes farther. Or when it’s dry, less far. But did you know the effect? To the number?

With FlagHi you dial in all your carry numbers then before you play you just enter the weather forecast for your round and the elevation above sea-level of the course. Take the app with you in a recreational round and swipe to see all your clubs’ updated numbers. Or just write down the adjusted numbers if it’s a tournament and you can’t bring your phone. That’s what our touring pros do.

The FlagHi PRO app does the club-centric calculations but it also does something even cooler. If you enter the distances of a shot, it tells you the distance that the shot “actually plays”. Meaning if I’m from San Diego playing in Denver and I’ve got a 189 yard shot – FlagHi can tell me that the shot “actually plays” 170. Meaning I hit my 7 iron, which is my San Diego 170 club. Because of Denver’s thinner air the ball will sail an additional 19 yards and land – you guessed it – FlagHi.

Without FlagHi telling me this I would be totally guessing when I play in Denver. Hence why college teams and pros are dialing in their numbers with the app.

It’s on the apple app store and android is coming shortly. We normally price it for $4.99 but we like to play with the #’s and even right now FlagHi is only $0.99.

Our users tell us they love the app. There are no ads and it’s super easy to use. Used by touring pros, college teams, amateurs.

Hope this helps – thanks. And we’re golfers first (and last) and just a couple of guys who came up with this app idea so pardon the “commercial” tone here but honestly and humbly we think you all might find value in knowing how conditions affect how you flight the ball.

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May 19, 2014 at 1:31 pm

My driver SS dropped from 115 in my mid-to-late 30’s to 80 in at age 42. The weird thing is that I am in far better shape now than I was then. My core is stronger and I’m more flexible. I’ve gained a bit of it back, but my best swings are no more than 90-95 if I really go after it now. I’m still looking for the answer. I hit the ball straight and high and I have a good short game, so I still play well, but lack of distance sometimes gets me. I am a sweeper.

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Jun 26, 2014 at 12:53 am

That is strange why you would have lost 35 mph of club head speed makes no sense to me. I’m 44 and in about the worse shape of my life but still swing just as fast and hit the ball just as far as my early 30s. Did you quit playing for several years then recently pick the game back up? If not I might consult with a doctor.

Jaacob Bowden

Jun 29, 2014 at 8:09 am

Being stronger or fit doesn’t mean you will be fast.

For example, when I competed in the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championships and was doing more explosive swing speed training exercises, I maxed my SSR out at 155 mph, which is probably around 139-143 mph on a Trackman.

However, when I started doing little to no swing speed training and more endurance running, which was required to finish 5th at the Speedgolf World Championships, my SSR speeds dropped down to 118 on the SSR (110’ish on a Trackman). Arguably I was more “fit”, but I wasn’t near as fast.

So it’s conceivable that something like this could have happened to you.

Have a look at the swing speed training programs at Swing Man Golf. With a bit of swing speed training, there’s no reason you couldn’t get your speed back up again.

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Sep 28, 2015 at 1:37 am

Jaacob, I’m a 24 year old, athletically built male who just took up the game 6 months ago. I took a few lessons and have gotten my average scores down to the high 80’s from the 100’s since I began. Based on your chart, my club head speed is somewhere between 100 and 110. My distances are as follows: Driver – 270 3 wood – 255 5 wood – 240 4 hybrid – 210 6 iron -180 7 iron – 165 8 iron – 155 9 iron 145 PW – 135 My question is this, much like other posters, I my distances were much lower when I first started out, and as a result I purchased all regular shafted clubs. Should I now be considering stuff shafts for my driver and fairway woods? I’ve never been fitted and don’t know exactly what that entails…is there any cost/obligation to purchase that comes with getting fitted? I’m in the military and play on a pretty tight budget right now but want to be hitting the right clubs…and advice is much appreciated!

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Nov 21, 2015 at 4:39 pm

I think you are kidding yourself on with those yardages unless you have the worst short game around you would be in the low seventies with those distances.

Dec 23, 2015 at 8:24 pm

Sam – He didn’t say he hit them all straight. He said he hit them that far. Hitting a crooked shot far acually would get him in more trouble, not less.

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Jan 17, 2016 at 4:13 am

Also there is a difference between an average shot versus a perfect shot. Pointless to list perfect shot distances. That’s a recipe to missing the green every time. Unless as a mid handicapper he is a great ball striker.

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Aug 12, 2014 at 12:20 am

How tense is your grip, do you release the clubhead? You must be doing something really inefficient

Aug 20, 2014 at 6:23 pm

Hey Ronney you could just be loading the club to fast causing over hip rotation just like in the commercial. Just take up smooth then create power with your legs coming done and crush it.

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Apr 24, 2014 at 4:54 pm

thanks. well written article, very helpful.

my swing speed is just about a 100 and the numbers are perfectly accurate on your chart for me. i play on a course with practically no roll and a 250 drive for me is good.

the one thing that puzzles me is that i hit my wedges really far. my 60 degree is my 100 yard club, my PW is about 135. these aren’t exaggerated. these are carries on the course. sometimes i think i just have so much more confidence with the wedges that it frees me up. i hit them really high too, which is weird given the distances.

any thoughts as why that would be the case? who carries his driver 240 but hits hits his gap wedge 125?

Jun 29, 2014 at 8:14 am

It’s difficult to tell without seeing you in person, but a scenario like this where short irons go longer…and longer irons, hybrids, and drivers go shorter…is possible if your clubs are de-lofted quite a bit or you perhaps have an excessively downward angle of attack.

With the driver in particular, catching it on the upswing could in all likelihood net you some more carry and total distance more along the lines of what you might expect.

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Jan 10, 2014 at 3:01 pm

would love to watch someone swing a PW 140 mph…. and crack a rib or 4 in the process 😉

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Jul 9, 2014 at 9:30 pm

The 140 swing speed number is driver only. He isn’t swing his PW 140.

You know that right?

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Jan 2, 2014 at 4:00 pm

question…if I use teh 80 mph swing speed as my driver guide..the numbers appear to be very close…but if I were to adjust my 10.5 driver to 10.0 or 11.0 or go to a 12.0 driver, same shaft, would I get less or more yardage? I have been playing with adjustments on my 10.5 and can’t quite figure which is the most beneficial, initial trajectory or roll, etc.

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Jan 22, 2014 at 1:17 pm

If your swing speed is 80 MPH, you would most likely get more yardage with more loft.

Jun 29, 2014 at 8:20 am

Hi jc, Joel is right. You would more likely get more distance with more loft.

At 80 mph, for maximum carry I would target you for about an 18 degree launch angle and 2600’ish on your spin.

For maximum total distance, I would say around 15 and 2000 would be the goal.

What I would recommend would depend on the type of course(s) you play. For tighter courses, soft fairways, when you have to carry trouble, or where there are doglegs you don’t want to run through…I would say to favor the carry side of things. For more open courses with harder fairways and the like, going for total distance might be better.

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Dec 21, 2013 at 12:14 am

How does the Foresight GC2 compare against Trackman and the SSR?

Jun 29, 2014 at 7:54 am

I forget off the top of my head about the GC2, however, in my experience an SSR generally reads slightly faster than a Trackman. Both have Dopplar radar but the Trackman has an additional algorithm built in to it to calculate speed at the center of the face whereas an SSR will pick up the fastest moving part of the club head (usually the toe).

It varies from person to person depending on how that person moves the club through impact. Last I checked, I was around 8% faster on an SSR. Most people I’ve measured are between 5-10% faster. Once you know your personal difference (from hitting with an SSR and a Trackman at the same time), you can get a really accurate idea of your Trackman speeds using an SSR.

Making sure you have the SSR placed correctly also can make a difference.

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Dec 18, 2013 at 11:06 pm

Great article Jaacob and thanks for sharing the stats against swing speed and carry distance. I have a swing speed close to 110mph and I can see some very close comparisons to my measured yardage with my MP59’s (which don’t have too strong a loft)and your figures. I believe the C-taper shafts give me a few extra yards due to lowering the ball spin. You mentioned today’s stronger lofts, but do you see much variance in the type of shafts used? I have seen some inconsistency in my carry yardage across my short irons. Sometimes when using short iron, I have gone up a club thinking I’ll swing it “softer” and it will go a bit shorter, but have over hit my target. I must be swinging at the same speed and still getting the same yardage. This also answers part of the question why I hit an occasional drive or 3 wood 20 or 30 yards longer than my standard yardage. I know I get a faster swing speed on my driver and 3 wood, but I always saw it as clean tempo or a centered impact, I wasn’t thinking about swing speed.

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Dec 17, 2013 at 12:46 am

Does the extra 20 yards carry due to the course conditions? More roll than a public course.

Jun 29, 2014 at 7:49 am

Driving distances vary quite a bit depending on the course conditions.

For example, the Tour average for the last 10 years generally has ran between 285-290. However, at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, the average driving distance was 268 yards. At the Wachovia Championship, it was 297 yards.

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Dec 16, 2013 at 7:53 pm

I find my distances are pretty close to the 80mph swing. when i hit it good its usually 280 right down the middle

Dec 16, 2013 at 10:04 pm

So you normally hit driver 206 and when you hit it solidly you hit it 280? Or your irons are shorter but driver longer distance?

Feb 13, 2018 at 7:08 am

280 right down middle sounds like 100 mph not 80

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Dec 14, 2013 at 4:21 pm

Great article! Interesting that my short irons play to the pga distances but I start to fall off around the 6i, probably has to do with contact.

Jun 29, 2014 at 7:45 am

It’s difficult to tell without seeing you in-person, but it’s possible you could have an excessive amount of shaft lean with your clubs. That scenario could make shorter irons go farther and longer irons, hybrids, and woods, fly less than expected.

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Jul 2, 2014 at 5:19 am

Great article! So more shaft lean in woods creates less distance? Why is that?

I have been tinkering with my swing and have created quite a bit more shaft lean then I had previously. I have noticed that all my irons have increased in distance by about ten to fifteen yards. but my driver & 3 wood have kind of stayed the same, or in a lot of cases I’ve actually lost distance.

So should I go back to less shaft lean for driver & 3 wood? But keep it for the irons?

I have noticed more consistency with my irons regarding target lines, but I am struggling more with the woods for that consistency now.

Appreciate your feedback, and thanks again for the article, very informative.

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Apr 25, 2013 at 6:46 pm

I need to figure out why my irons are consistently matched to the 105mph swing speed i.e. 4i = 190y & 9i = 140y, but my driver carries 220ish. With especially good contact, I have carried to 240, but it’s rare. I think I just have a lot more misses with my driver, maybe ???

PS Great article.

Apr 26, 2013 at 4:17 am

Thanks, Geoff.

Hmmm, what you mentioned about more misses could certainly be part of the shorter driver carry distances. Get some impact tape and/or foot powder for your driver face so you can make sure you’re hitting it consistently on a good spot on the face.

Also, by chance do you know your average launch angle and spin rate with your driver?

It’s possible you could be launching it too low and/or with too much spin to carry it that far.

At 105 mph, my target for you would be about 13.4 degree launch and 2445 rpm spin.

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Mar 15, 2013 at 2:59 pm

Hey Jaacob,

Would you mind sharing your math? I want to customize based on my avg iron distances.

Mar 17, 2013 at 8:46 am

Sure thing, Paddy.

The chart is based off the PGA Tour average carry distances that were reported by Trackman (see the first chart in the top of the article), the average total driving distance from the PGATour.com website (about 289 yards), and the average PGA Tour swing speed (about 112 mph).

Using all that data, I calculated the percent difference from the Tour average swing speed (about 112 mph) to whatever swing speed I wanted. For example, a 90 mph driver swing speed is 80.4% of a 112 mph (90 / 112 = 0.804) driver swing speed.

Once I knew the percent difference, I went down for each club from the Tour distances and multiplied each one by 0.804 to get the 90 mph distances.

For example, 80.4% of a 289-yard total drive at 112 mph is 232 yards (0.804 * 289 yards = 232 yards), 80.4% of a 269-yard carry at 112 mph is 216 yards (0.804 * 269 yards = 216 yards), etc.

Then it was simply a matter of repeating all that for the different swing speeds.

I made the original chart in Excel and just copied and pasted the formulas to each cell.

Make sense?

Mar 18, 2013 at 12:50 pm

Yep, using your logic, I could do the same math off of the average distance of my 7 iron vs. the PGA pro 7 iron distance. I’ll try this, thanks!

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Mar 7, 2013 at 11:40 pm

For swing speed training, what do you suggest/recommend?

Mar 8, 2013 at 3:54 am

Hi Jason, have a look at my Swing Man Golf website. If you have any further questions after that, just send me an email through the contact form and I’ll be glad to help however I can.

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Feb 14, 2013 at 12:54 pm

Ryan Wither has been clocked at 167. which is the fastest ever. I know cuz I gave him lessons and watch alot of his swings.

Feb 17, 2013 at 5:59 am

Hi Kyle, do you know what type of radar was being used?

Speeds vary depending on the radar.

For example, although they are accurate, Sports Sensors swing speed radars usually read 5-12% faster (depends on the person and how they move the club through impact) than a Trackman because they measure the fastest moving part of the club head…which is normally the toe. Conversely, a Trackman or Flightscope X2 have algorithms to calculate the speed at the center of the club face…and thus read slower than an SSR.

If I remember correctly, the last time I heard from Ryan, the fastest he has posted on a Trackman was at the PGA Show…156 mph. The fastest that was recorded for him on Trackman at the 2012 World Championships was 149.4 mph.

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Feb 5, 2013 at 2:13 pm

this is a weird article becasue i recently got fitted for irons and they said i swing 72 mph with my irons but i hit my 7 iron like 130 average

Feb 5, 2013 at 2:37 pm

Cody, the speeds above are based on driver swing speeds…not iron swing speeds. Do you know what your driver swing speed is?

Feb 8, 2013 at 2:08 pm

not really sure , i hit a taylormade r7 superquad with a stiff shaft, i dont swing fast at all i think i get like 230 consitent off my drives

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Jan 22, 2013 at 5:51 pm

Great article and very imformative! I’ve had those PGA and LPGA charts for a while and most recreational golfers (single handicap and above) should be looking at LPGA numbers for each given iron rather than PGA, even if they swing faster than the LPGA averages beacuse most amatures have low smash factors so even if they are able to swing close in swing speed to the PGA averages, the lower smash will result in lower ball speeds and carry distances of the LPGA.

Basically my numbers are exactly one club more than the PGA pros, given my swing speed and smash factors are not as optimal as theirs.

I think your chart (estimated potential swing speed and carry distance projected from the PGA average) is also a good indication of what our potentials are. That is, if you swing 100mph driver with 255 carry but the rest of your clubs fall more into the range projected down from the 90mph driver swing speed then you know you work on those clubs and tighten the yardage gaps….

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Jan 19, 2013 at 1:56 pm

Jaacob, thanks for posting this; I’ve been looking for a comparison chart with different speeds like the one you posted. My distances appear to match up quite closely with the 100 mph, just slightly less, with my 7 iron going 150, 8 140, 9 130, etc, but I think my irons are a bit strong. However, I hit my 4 iron 180 (as I should if the chart is right), but sometimes use it to hit 190-200 (probably because I never actually swing 100% when hitting my irons because I’m afraid of blading etc) since I do not have a 3 iron. My main concern is that for some reason I only hit my driver about 200. I’m not sure why, I must never be hitting the center of my driver, because I should be 240 carry. Every shot feels good, and when I hit a really good one, it still maybe will reach 220. I’m not sure what to do, any tips? Thanks, -Nick

Jan 19, 2013 at 4:14 pm

Sure thing, Nick.

To answer your question, can you get on a Trackman or Flightscope X2 and hit a few drives?

I’m curious to verify your swing speed…and also know your launch angle, spin rate, and smash factor.

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Tom Allinder

Jan 19, 2013 at 11:11 am

Jaacob, I enjoyed your article and received some significant insight regarding measurement of swing speed given the number of sensors on the market.

One area I am particularly concerned with is those of us over 50 years of age. Many of my golfing buddies feel that loss of distance is a natural result of aging. I disagree to an extent with that attitude. We seniors can hit the ball plenty long if we work out, stretch, do some yoga etc. I think a good diet is part of it too.

While it is inevitable that we lose speed with aging, we don’t have to give in completely. A little work, proper fitting and improved technique can get a lot of yards back and get longer than we ever were in our youth!

Another thing we seniors benefit from in competition is we are now playing competitive rounds on courses at 6400-6600 yards. Wow, golf is fun again because I don’t need to hit driver on many of the par 4s and still have only a wedge left to the pin! The par 5’s are reachable again too!

Again, great article and I will be a regular reader from now on…

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Jan 17, 2013 at 1:02 pm

Awesome Data stuff, Mr Bowden!

Would it be possible to expand this article to full size analysis of everything mentioned so far, in much much more detail with proper tables and graphs and charts, just as everybody wants, with all the big tours’ averages and modern club loft standards, etc? Then it would be the perfect bible.

Awesome, nonetheless, and helps me illustrate my points to students and friends alike who just cannot believe the scientific numbers of averages out there, who all still believe that more than most Tour guys bomb it past 300 with their drivers and hit their 6 irons to 240 yards LOL

Jan 17, 2013 at 4:15 pm

That’s a good idea. Let me check and see what I can do.

Stay tuned!

Jan 19, 2013 at 1:43 pm

Just got something published! Here’s the article with a summary chart -> http://www.golfwrx.com/64715/carry-distance-vs-swing-speed-chart/

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Chris Wehring

Jan 16, 2013 at 9:22 pm

This article is pretty interesting! I found some things that don’t match up with my swing. It could just be my weird swing. As of last year, my swing speed was around 95 but I carry my 8 iron almost 150 on a good strike. Maybe my course’s markers are just off. I don’t know. Haha maybe my swing is similar to the LPGA swings in being more efficient with my swing speed. I really liked the article though.

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Jan 16, 2013 at 11:48 am

Great article, thanks! Would also be great to know LPGA and Champions averages, just for comparison…

Jan 16, 2013 at 2:41 pm

Glad you enjoyed it, Frank.

Here are the LPGA Trackman numbers (in yards). Unfortunately, I don’t have the club lofts…which would be useful. Although, like I mentioned in my comment reply to Andy and David, a rough estimate of those could be calculated similar to how I did it above.

Driver (total) – 246 Driver (carry) – 220 3W – 195 5W – 185 7W – 174 4-Iron – 170 5-Iron – 161 6-Iron – 152 7-Iron – 141 8-Iron – 130 9-Iron – 119 PW – 107

Let me check on the Champions Tour numbers…

Jan 16, 2013 at 4:16 pm

I didn’t find anything for the Champions Tour, but let’s see what we can come up with.

The mean driving distance on the Champions Tour for the 2012 season was 273.4 yards. Assuming that Champions Tour players have the same driving efficiency as regular PGA Tour players at 2.58 yards per mph of swing speed, that would mean the average swing speed for a Champions Tour player is about 106 mph.

Using the same algebra that I did in the article, here would be the carry estimates in yards:

Driver (Total) – 274 Driver (Carry) – 255 3-Wood – 230 5-Wood – 218 Hybrid – 213 3-Iron – 201 4-Iron – 192 5-Iron – 184 6-Iron – 173 7-Iron – 163 8-Iron – 151 9-Iron – 140 PW – 129

Mar 12, 2013 at 6:35 pm

My numbers are a BIT different. Any chance you’re willing to share your math so I can apply this to my average distances for certain clubs? Thanks!

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Mar 4, 2013 at 8:01 am

Great article…good to see some hard #s to compare. I personally am coming off double hip replacement surgeries in 2012 and watched a lot of LPGA golf last year during recovery/rehab…I personally found that I now relate more to the yardages the top women players have than the elite men college or pro level. Also, the women have impeccable tempo and always seem to swing “within” themselves.

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Jan 16, 2013 at 11:35 am

Important for folks to also realize the PGA Tour and Nationwide follow the sun AKA usually playing in optimal conditions with super tight fairways affording 20 plus yards of roll. Buddy of mine who is a caddy who knows web.com guys said their distances went up immediately upon playing more manicure courses in 70-80 degree weather. Yeah they still hit it great/far/better than us!

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Martin Signer

Jan 16, 2013 at 6:47 am

interesting good article.

Have a nice day,

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Jan 15, 2013 at 10:27 pm

Instead of listing the club name how about listing the name and the loft? My 9i is 41*. Does that map to the 9i on the chart or one of the other clubs? Thanks. -Andy

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David McElroy

Jan 16, 2013 at 9:13 am

I agree, it would be nice to see loft along with those figures.

Jan 16, 2013 at 2:24 pm

You guys are both right. This data is much more useful with the lofts.

I was actually curious about this as well so I looked up what 30 PGA Tour players “say” they are playing on their websites, from “What’s in the Bag” videos and articles, etc…and then looked up the specs from the company’s websites for each of those club models.

It’s only a small data sample and perhaps there is a difference from each player’s actual club specs versus what is listed in the places I looked, but here are the averages I came up with:

Driver – 9.0 3-Wood – 14.4 5-Wood/Hybrid/Long Iron – 19.2 4-Iron – 23.9 5-Iron – 27.0 6-Iron – 30.5 7-Iron – 34.3 8-Iron – 38.3 9-Iron – 42.4 PW – 47.1 GW/SW – 53.9 LW – 59.7

Jan 16, 2013 at 2:31 pm

Oh, regarding the chart with the PGA Tour Trackman averages…it says 15-18* for hybrid.

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Dec 21, 2013 at 4:49 pm

its funny how strong lofts are on modern irons. I have a set of circa 1980 titleist tour models, and the stamped loft on the pw is 49 degrees and 9 iron at 45 degrees. I bent them strong to the modern lofts much similar to the loft chart you posted. the only problem? the stronger they are bent, the more offset they are and the higher they seem to fly and the more they hook.

Jan 2, 2014 at 4:01 pm

in the dave pelz short game bible, what was a pitching wedge of 50 is now a gap wedge on almost all sets..

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Troy Vayanos

Jan 15, 2013 at 5:52 pm

They are interesting numbers Jacob. I’ve no doubt the touring professionals have these tested to the very inch. At their level getting the right distances are absolutely vital and often the difference between winning and losing.

I only wish we had this sort of technology available in Australia. Hitting at the golf driving range is fine but it doesn’t really give you exact carry distances as the target is too far away and no way of seeing where the golf ball actually lands.

Would you know of how the average golfer can work out these numbers?

Jan 16, 2013 at 2:06 pm

Troy, I’m not sure what part of Australia you live…but the locator tool on the Trackman website shows there are some Trackmans in basically all the major cities like Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, and Brisbane.

As for the SSRs, unfortunately Sports Sensors doesn’t presently have a frequency license for the radar in Australia and thus they won’t ship there. However, sometimes you can find someone on eBay that is willing to sell and ship to Oz.

You might also check your local golf shop or golf course. Often times, they will have a launch monitor of some sorts. If you can find out the name of the launch monitor brand, there are usually articles out and around on Google comparing and contrasting different brands and how they measure swing speed versus.

As for working out the numbers without a radar or someone to help you see where the ball lands…hmmm, there’s a number of ways to do it. Here’s a couple.

If you have a range finder, laser the distance to a flag within short iron distance from the fairway. Choose a club that you think will get you close to the flag with a full swing, hit a shot (or a few if you aren’t holding anyone up), and then add or subtract how many paces the pitch marks are relative to the flag from the distance you lasered in the fairway.

Without a range finder…find an open hole, drop a few balls, and step them off by foot to get a rough average distance. From there you can estimate the other clubs.

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Jan 27, 2013 at 11:15 pm

Just a quick question, probably not an easy or quick answer… If my yardages are way off of that, say out to 165 for a pitching wedge… Say out to 190 some days with a 7… Only swing speed I know is my driver @ 114-115 consistently… Am I swinging too hard or possibly delofting my irons at impact?

Jan 29, 2013 at 7:48 am

Hmmm, well distances can vary based on the conditions. That’s one possibility. Check out my other article for more on that aspect -> http://www.golfwrx.com/54875/understanding-distance-variance/

Delofting, like you mentioned, could be another possibility. More specifically, you may be decreasing your spin loft…which is the difference between your angle of attack and the dynamic loft of the club.

So say your friend hits down 2 degrees on the ball and the dynamic loft is 30 degrees…then you take the club, swing at the same speed, and hit down 2 degrees but have a dynamic loft that is 26 degrees from having your hands further forward at impact…your ball would probably have less spin, a greater smash factor, and go farther. Depending on the person and other specifics of their game, this scenario could be good or bad.

As for swinging too hard, that would depend on if you feel like you can control your shots. If you feel under control hitting those distances, I’d say it’s no problem.

Jul 9, 2014 at 9:37 pm

Love this kind of information. Great article.

how can i get faster swing speed. I am in the 100 category give.

Would you advise switching to REGULAR flex?

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Jan 15, 2013 at 3:27 pm

Good article. Curiously, where my SS of 98-100 (as measured at GolfTown-who knows if accurate, though their flight numbers are close to what I see on course-don’t trust their roll #s as they have my wedges rolling 10+ lol) seems to fit your long club carry numbers pretty well, it’s not close with my scoring clubs. My irons from 8i down to my 64° get very little roll. My 58° goes at least 100, my PW 140, and 8i 160. even my 8i rarely rolls more than 10 ft from it’s landing spot. And I only hit my mid-irons/wedges with an abbreviated swing, I’m not trying to kill them. As you can see, if a green involves a hazard carry of >170, I lay up.

My distances are (including roll I play on average, amount of roll given)~: D-270(30), 3w-240(25), 5w-215(20), 4i-200(20), 5i-190(15), 6i-180(10), 7i-170(10), 8i-160(<5), 9i-150(<5), PW-140, 52°-120, 58°-100, 64°-80

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Jan 20, 2013 at 11:37 pm

I’m a big hitter with a fast swing speed and I also carry a 64* wedge. I used to hit about 85-90 yards max, which gave me something to brag about, but I believe hitting a 64* wedge 80 yards is not ideal. I changed my approach of wedges about two years ago and I lost 25 yards off my 64* wedge, but my accuracy and pinpoint placement has improved. Also I feel that instead of just launching the ball high and having it land with 4′ of check! I can play my 64* with a much better angle of approach. Glad to hear you’re swingin’ a 64* though, not too many people carrying them around.

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Ryan: why the race to get better at golf might be doing more harm than good.

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To understand the application, let’s quickly review one of B.F. Skinner’s most important experiments; superstitions in the formation of behavior by pigeons. In this experiment, food was dispensed to pigeons at random intervals. Soon, according to Skinner, the pigeons began to associate whatever action they were doing at the time of the food being dispensed. According to Skinner, this conditioned that response and soon, they simply haphazardly repeated the action, failing to distinguish between cause and correlation (and in the meantime, looking really funny!).

Now, this is simply the best way to describe the actions of most every women’s college golf coach and too many instructors in America. They see something work, get positive feedback and then become conditioned to give the feedback, more and more, regardless of if it works (this is also why tips from your buddies never work!).

Go to a college event, particularly a women’s one, and you will see coaches running all over the place. Like the pigeons in the experiment, they have been conditioned into a codependent relationship with their players in which they believe their words and actions, can transform a round of golf. It is simply hilarious while being equally perturbing

In junior golf, it’s everywhere. Junior golf academies make a living selling parents that a hysterical coach and over-coaching are essential ingredients in your child’s success.

Let’s be clear, no one of any intellect has any real interest in golf — because it’s not that interesting. The people left, including most coaches and instructors, carve out a small fiefdom, usually on the corner of the range, where they use the illusion of competency to pray on people. In simple terms, they baffle people with the bullshit of pseudo-science that they can make you better, after just one more lesson.

The reality is that life is an impromptu game. The world of golf, business, and school have a message that the goal is being right. This, of course, is bad advice, being right in your own mind is easy, trying to push your ideas on others is hard. As a result, it is not surprising that the divorce rate among golf professionals and their instructors is 100 percent. The transfer rate among college players continues to soar, and too many courses have a guy peddling nefarious science to good people. In fact, we do at my course!

The question is, what impact does all this have on college-age and younger kids? At this point, we honestly don’t know. However, I am going to go out on a limb and say it isn’t good.

Soren Kierkegaard once quipped “I saw it for what it is, and I laughed.” The actions of most coaches and instructors in America are laughable. The problem is that I am not laughing because they are doing damage to kids, as well as driving good people away from this game.

The fact is that golfers don’t need more tips, secrets, or lessons. They need to be presented with a better understanding of the key elements of golf. With this understanding, they can then start to frame which information makes sense and what doesn’t. This will emancipate them and allow them to take charge of their own development.

Vincenzi’s 2024 Valspar Championship betting preview: Elite ballstrikers to thrive at Copperhead

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The PGA TOUR will stay in Florida this week for the 2024 Valspar Championship.

The Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort is a par 71 measuring 7,340 yards and features Bermudagrass greens overseeded with POA. Infamous for its difficulty, the track will be a tough test for golfers as trouble lurks all over the place. Holes 16, 17 and 18 — also known as the “Snake Pit” — make up one of the toughest three-hole stretches in golf and should lead to a captivating finish on Sunday.

The field is comprised of 156 golfers teeing it up. The field this week is solid and is a major improvement over last year’s field that felt the impact of players skipping due to a handful of “signature events” in a short span of time. 

Past Winners at Valspar Championship

  • 2023: Taylor Moore (-10)
  • 2022: Sam Burns (-17)
  • 2021: Sam Burns (-17)
  • 2019: Paul Casey (-8)
  • 2018: Paul Casey (-10)
  • 2017: Adam Hadwin (-14)
  • 2016: Charl Schwartzel (-7)
  • 2015: Jordan Spieth (-10)

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Key Stats For Copperhead

1. strokes gained: approach.

Strokes Gained: Approach grades out as the most important statistic once again this week. Copperhead really can’t be overpowered and is a second-shot golf course.

Total SG: Approach Over Past 24 Rounds (per round)

  • Tony Finau  (+.90)
  • Nick Taylor  (+.81)
  • Justin Thomas  (+.77)
  • Greyson Sigg  (+.69)
  • Christiaan Bezuidenhout (+.67)

2. Good Drive %

The long hitters can be a bit limited here due to the tree-lined fairways and penal rough. Playing from the fairways will be important, but laying back too far will cause some difficult approaches with firm greens that may not hold shots from long irons.

Golfers who have a good balance of distance and accuracy have the best chance this week.

Good Drive % Over Past 24 Rounds

  • Brice Garnett  (+91.3%) 
  • Zach Johnson  (+91.1%)
  • Sam Ryder  (+90.5%)
  • Ryan Moore  (+90.4%)
  • Aaron Rai (+89.7%)

3. Strokes Gained: Ball Striking

Adding ball-striking puts even more of a premium on tee-to-green prowess in the statistical model this week. Golfers who rank highly in ball-striking are in total control of the golf ball which is exceedingly important at Copperhead.

SG: Ball Striking Over Past 24 Rounds:

  • Xander Schauffele  (+1.32)
  • Keith Mitchell  (+1.29)
  • Tony Finau  (+1.24)
  • Cameron Young (+1.17) 
  • Doug Ghim  (+.95)

4. Bogey Avoidance

With the conditions likely to be difficult, avoiding bogeys will be crucial this week. In a challenging event like the Valspar, oftentimes the golfer who is best at avoiding mistakes ends up on top.

Gritty golfers who can grind out difficult pars have a much better chance in an event like this than a low-scoring birdie-fest.

Bogey Avoidance Over Past 24 Rounds

  • Brice Garnett  (+9.0)
  • Xander Schauffele  (+9.3)
  • Austin Cook  (+9.7) 
  • Chesson Hadley  (+10.0)
  • Greyson Sigg  (+10.2)

5. Strokes Gained: Total in Difficult Conditions

Conditions will be tough this week at Copperhead. I am looking for golfers who can rise to the occasion if the course plays as difficult as it has in the past.

Strokes Gained: Total in Difficult Conditions Over Past 24 rounds

  • Xander Schauffele  (+1,71) 
  • Min Woo Lee  (+1.39)
  • Cameron Young  (+1.27)
  • Jordan Spieth  (+1.08)
  • Justin Suh  (+.94)

6. Course History

That statistic will tell us which players have played well at Copperhead in the past.

Course History Over Past 24 rounds

  • Patrick Cantlay  (+3.75) 
  • Sam Burns  (+2.49)
  • Davis Riley  (+2.33)
  • Matt NeSmith  (+2.22)
  • Jordan Spieth  (+2.04)

The Valspar Championship Model Rankings

Below, I’ve compiled overall model rankings using a combination of the five key statistical categories previously discussed — SG: Approach (27%), Good Drive % (15%), SG: BS (20%), Bogeys Avoided (13%), Course History (13%) Strokes Gained: Total in Difficult Conditions (12%).

  • Xander Schauffele
  • Victor Perez
  • Greyson Sigg
  • Justin Thomas
  • Lucas Glover

2024 Valspar Championship Picks

Justin thomas +1400 ( draftkings ).

Justin Thomas will be disappointed with his finish at last week’s PLAYERS Championship, as the past champion missed the cut despite being in some decent form heading into the event. Despite the missed cut, JT hit the ball really well. In his two rounds, the two-time major champion led the field in Strokes Gained: Approach per round.

Thomas has been up and down this season. He’s missed the cut in two “signature events” but also has finishes of T12 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, T12 at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, T6 at the Pebble Beach AT&T Pro-Am and T3 at the American Express. In his past 24 rounds, he ranks 3rd in the field in Strokes Gained: Approach and 6th in Strokes Gained: Ball Striking in the field.

Thomas loves Copperhead. In his last three tries at the course, he’s finished T13, T3 and T10. Thomas would have loved to get a win at a big event early in the season, but avoidable mistakes and a balky putter have cost him dearly. I believe a trip to a course he loves in a field he should be able to capitalize on is the right recipe for JT to right the ship.

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In his past 24 rounds, the South African ranks 3rd in the field in Strokes Gained: Approach and 26th in Strokes Gained: Ball Striking. Bezuidenhout managed to work his way around TPC Sawgrass last week with minimal damage. He only made five bogeys in the entire week, which is a great sign heading into a difficult Copperhead this week.

Bezuidenhout is winless in his PGA Tour career, but certainly has the talent to win on Tour. His recent iron play tells me that this week could be a breakthrough for the 35-year-old who has eyes on the President’s Cup.

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Sepp Straka is a player who’s shown he has the type of game that can translate to a difficult Florida golf course. The former Presidents Cup participant won the 2022 Honda Classic in tough conditions and should thrive with a similar test at Copperhead.

It’s been a slow 2024 for Straka, but his performance last week at the PLAYERS Championship surely provides some optimism. He gained 5.4 strokes on approach as well as 1.88 strokes off the tee. The tee-to-green game Straka showed on a course with plenty of danger demonstrates that he can stay in control of his golf ball this week.

It’s possible that the strong performance last week was an outlier, but I’m willing to bet on a proven winner in a weaker field at a great number.

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Victor Perez is no stranger to success in professional golf. The Frenchman has three DP World Tour wins including a Rolex Series event. He won the 2019 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, as well as the 2023 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, which are some big events.

Perez earned his PGA Tour card this season and enters the week playing some fantastic golf. He finished in a tie for 16th in Florida at the Cognizant Classic and then tied for third in his most recent start at the Puerto Rico Open.

In his past 24 rounds in the field, Perez ranks 11th in Strokes Gained: Approach, 1oth in Strokes Gained: Ball Striking, 6th in Good Drive % and 15th in Bogey Avoidance.

Perez comes in as a perfect fit for Copperhead and offers serious value at triple-digit odds.

Myrtle Beach, Explored: February in South Carolina

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As I gain in experience and age, and familiarity breeds neither contempt nor disdain, I understand why people return to a place. A destination like Myrtle Beach offers a sizable supply and diversity of restaurants, entertainment venues, and shops that are predicated on the tenets of the service industry. Greet your customers with a smile and a kind word, and they will find comfort and assurance. Provide them with a memorable experience and they will suggest your place of business to others.

My first tour of Myrtle Beach took place in the mid-1980s, and consisted of one course: Gator Hole. I don’t remember much from that day, and since Gator Hole closed a decade later, I cannot revisit it to recollect what I’d lost. Since then, I’ve come to the Grand Strand a few times, and been fortunate to never place a course more than once. I’ve seen the Strantz courses to the south and dipped my toe in the North Carolina courses of Calabash. I’ve been to many in the middle, including Dunes, Pine Lakes, Grande Dunes among them.

2024 brought a quartet of new courses, including two at the Barefoot Resort. I’d heard about the North Myrtle Beach four-pack of courses that highlight the Barefoot property, including layouts from Pete Dye, Tom Fazio, Davis Love III, and Greg Norman. I had the opportunity to play and shoot the Dye and Fazio tracks, which means that I’ll have to return to see the other two. Sandwiched between them were the TPC-Myrtle Beach course, also from Tom Fazio, and the Pawley’s Plantation trace, by the hand of Jack Nicklaus. I anticipated a bit of the heroic, and bit of the strategic, and plenty of eye candy. None of those architects would ever be considered a minimalist, so there would be plenty of in-play and out-of-play bunkers and mounds to tantalize the senses.

My nephew arrived a few days early, to screen a few more courses. As a result, you the reader will have an extra quarter of mini-reviews, bringing the total of courses in this piece to eight. It was inconceivable that CJR would play four courses that I had never played nor photographed, but that was the case. His words appear at the end of this piece. We hope that you enjoy the tour.

Main Feature: Two Barefoots, a TPC, and Pawley’s Plantation

Barefoot Dye

What Paul “Pete” Dye brought back from his trips to the United Kingdom, hearkened back to what C.B. MacDonal did, some 65 years prior. There is a way of finding bunkers and fairways, and even green sites, that does not require major industrial work. The Dye course at Barefoot Resorts takes you on a journey over the rumpled terrain of distant places. If there’s one element missing, it’s the creased and turbulent fairways, so often found in England and Ireland. The one tenet of playing a Dye course, is to always aim away from temptation, from where your eyes draw you. Find the safe side of the target, and you’ll probably find your ball. It then stands that you will have a shot for your next attempt. Cut the corner, and you might have need to reload. The Barefoot course begins gently, in terms of distance, but challenges with visual deception. After two brief 4s and a 3, the real work begins. The course is exposed enough, to allow the coastal winds to dance along the fairways. Be ready to keep the ball low and take an extra club or two.

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TPC-Myrtle Beach

If memory serves, TPCMB is my first trek around a TPC-branded course. It had all the trappings of a tour course, from the welcome, through the clubhouse, to the practice facilities and, of course, the course. TPC-Myrtle Beach is a Tom Fazio design, and if you never visit Augusta National, you’ll now have an idea of what it is like. You play Augusta’s 16th hole twice at TPCMB, and you enjoy it both times. Fazio really likes the pond-left, green-angle-around par three hole, and his two iterations of it are memorable.

You’ll also see those Augusta bunkers, the ones with the manicured edges that drop into a modestly-circular form. What distinguishes these sand pits is the manner in which they rise from the surrounding ground. They are unique in that they don’t resemble the geometric bunkering of a Seth Raynor, nor the organic pits found in origin courses. They are built, make no mistake, and recovery from them is manageable for all levels of bunker wizardry.

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Barefoot Fazio

If you have the opportunity to play the two Tom Fazio courses back to back, you’ll notice a marked difference in styling. Let me digress for a moment, then circle back with an explanation. It was written that the NLE World Woods course designed by Fazio, Pine Barrens, was an homage to Pine Valley, the legendary, New Jersey club where Fazio is both a member and the architect on retainer. The Pine Barrens course was plowed under in 2022, so the homage no longer exists. At least, I didn’t think that it existed, until I played his Barefoot Resort course in North Myrtle Beach.

Pine Valley might be described as an aesthetic of scrub and sand. There are mighty, forced carries to travers, along with sempiternal, sandy lairs to avoid. Barefoot Fazio is quite similar. If you’re not faced with a forced carry, you’ll certainly contend with a fairway border or greenside necklace of sand. When you reach the 13th tee, you’ll face a drive into a fairway, and you might see a distant green, with a notable absence: flagstick. The 13th is the icing on the homage cake, a callout of the 8th hole at Pine Valley.  Numero Ocho at the OG has two greens, side by side, and they change the manner in which the hole plays (so they say.) At Barefoot Fazio, the right-side green is a traditional approach, with an unimpeded run of fairway to putting surface. The left-side green (the one that I was fortunate to play) demands a pitch shot over a wasteland. It’s a fitting tribute for the rest of us to play.

Be certain to parrot the starter, Leon’s, advice, and play up a deck of tees. Barefoot Fazio offers five par-three holes, so the fours and fives play that much longer. Remember, too, that you are on vacation. Why not treat yourself to some birdie looks?

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Pawley’s Plantation

The Jack Nicklaus course at Pawley’s Plantation emerged from a period of hibernation in 2024. The greens were torn up and their original contours were restored. Work was overseen by Troy Vincent, a member of the Nicklaus Architecture team. In addition, the putting corridors were reseeded with a hardier, dwarf bermuda that has experienced great success, all along the Grand Strand that is Myrtle Beach.

My visit allowed me to see the inward half first, and I understand why the resort wishes to conclude your day on those holes. The front nine of Pawley’s Plantation works its way through familiar, low country trees and wetlands. The back nine begins in similar fashion, then makes its way east, toward the marsh that separates mainland from Pawley’s Island. Recalling the powerful sun of that Wednesday morning, any round beginning on the second nine would face collateral damage from the warming star. Much better to hit holes 11 to close when the sun is higher in the sky.

The marshland holes (12 through 17) are spectacular in their raw, unprotected nature. The winds off the Atlantic are unrelenting and unforgiving, and the twin, par-three holes will remain in your memory banks for time’s march. In typical Golden Bear fashion, a majority of his putting targets are smallish in nature, reflecting his appreciation for accurate approach shots. Be sure to find the forgiving side of each green, and err to that portion. You’ll be grateful.

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Bonus Coverage: Myrtlewood, Beechwood, Arrowhead, and King’s North

Arrowhead (Raymond Floyd and Tom Jackson)

A course built in the middle of a community, water threatens on most every hole. The Cypress 9 provides a few holes forcing a carried drive then challenge you with water surrounding the green. On Waterway, a drivable 2nd hole will tempt most, so make sure the group ahead has cleared the green.

Myrtlewood ( Edmund Alt and Arthur Hills) and  Beechwood (Gene Hamm)

A middle of the winter New Englander’s paradise. Wide open fairways, zero blind shots and light rough allow for shaking off the rust and plenty of forgiveness. A plethora of dog legs cause one to be cautious with every tee shot. Won’t break the bank nor the scorecard.

King’s North @ Myrtle Beach National (Arnold Palmer)

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Golf Club Distance Chart

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This golf club distance chart will help provide you with a guide to how far you should hit your golf clubs. You’ll also be able to tell what level you’re at compared to the pros and how increasing your swing speed will impact your yardage.

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Golf Club Distance Chart by Swing Speed

This table from Trackman shows the average distance for golf clubs based on the swing speed of a driver. Of course, your distances will vary based on how well you’re striking the ball, but this cheat sheet should give you a good idea of how far you can expect your clubs to go when hit well.

Note that these are carry numbers. So you might expect from 0-10 yards of extra distance depending on the club, how it’s struck, and where it lands.

Printable Golf Club Distance Chart

If you’d like to print this chart out, click on the image below or download this golf club distance chart pdf .

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Average Swing Speed by Player Type

Here are the average swing speeds by type of player. These numbers vary widely, especially among amateurs, but they can give you an idea of where you stand among your peers.

Average Swing Speed by Handicap

The distance you can hit your clubs directly correlates with your potential handicap. Of course, your actual handicap number will vary based on all the factors of your game, but these are the expected averages for males and females.

Average Driver Distance by Age

The table below shows the average driving distance by age. Your actual numbers will vary based on your fitness and skill. As people age, they tend to lose fast twitch muscle fiber and flexibility unless they’re actively working to maintain them.

How to Find Your Driver Swing Speed

There are several ways to find your swing speed to place yourself on this chart.

The simplest way is to get the yardage for one of your clubs, such as the driver, and match that yardage to the chart. You should find one of the columns closely matches your yardages. Ensure you’re tracking average yardage and not your best drive to get accurate numbers.

Here are several other ways:

  • Use a golf simulator to get an accurate swing speed number. A device like a Trackman or a Skytrak should be able to provide you with this data. If you don’t have a simulator, you may be able to find somewhere nearby where you can rent time in a simulator bay.
  • Use a launch monitor like the PRGR (around $200), which accurately measures speed.

How to Make Your Own Club Distance Card

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To make your own club distance card, you’ll need to start by measuring each club’s carry and/or total distance. There are several ways to get this data:

  • A golf simulator (you can rent simulator time if you don’t have access)
  • A launch monitor (such as the PRGR mentioned above)
  • A golf tracker (such as the Arccos Caddie )
  • A range finder and some time at the driving range (this approach is less precise and takes extra effort)

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Choose which data is most helpful. For example, carry distances are useful for hitting a green or ensuring you can get over trouble, and the total distance helps you know your range. You can also track distances for partial swings (like a 1/4, 1/2, or 3/4 wedge).

After you’ve gathered all the numbers, there are several ways you can use them to make your club choices easier on the course:

  • Paper – the most basic way is to write them down on some note paper; you can use the templates below for an idea of what to write down.
  • Phone – you can save these numbers as a note or document for reference if your phone is easily accessible during your golf round. Apps like the Arccos Caddie (mentioned above) will also track this for you.
  • Print Out – we’ve included some sample templates below to give you ideas on how to design a card.

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Once you have your distance card, you can laminate and carry it, put it in a scorecard holder, attach it to your bag with a bag tag holder , or tape it to your push cart.

You should expect to hit a 7-iron between 130 and 160 yards. Each iron should vary by about 8 to 10 yards (e.g., if your 7 goes 150, your 8 should go around 140). This will change depending on your swing speed, which is related to your technique, flexibility, fitness, and height.

An average male swings the driver at 94 mph, traveling around 240 yards. However, most amateurs don’t hit the ball perfectly, so this will often fall short of this potential yardage when mishit. A PGA Tour player hits the driver an average of 295 yards (some are much longer, like DeChambeau at 320 yds). An LPGA player drives the ball around 240 yards in total.

In 2021 Kyle Berkshire hit a ball speed of 233.4 mph with a swing speed of 153.3 mph. His swing speeds have been slightly higher, but ball speed ultimately factors most into the distance.

  • https://blog.trackmangolf.com/club-speed/
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Last check, my golf swing speed has been around 98 to 100mph. So as a reference I hit my 7-Iron about 165yds on average, pitching wedge would be 130 to 140yds and driver 230 to 260yds depending upon contact and degree of flight. I can handle tee spots up to 6700 to 6800yds. However, my wife thinks I should “play-up” because my scores are “mid 90’s on challenging course, but my issues have always been the short game, not distance. What do you suggest?

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Regarding John Hartmann’s comment….play the tees where you have the most fun. If all your buddies are playing from the same tees as you maybe you want to just keep playing those same tees with your friends. Most of us are just playing for fun. Play where you have the most fun but if I were you I’d at least give it a try moving up. 6800 yards is a lot of golf course for weekend golfers. Who knows, you might have more fun making lower scores from closer tees.

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Yeah, play whichever tees you like, but like SS said 6800 is probably a lot if you’re not hitting a driver at least 260+… if you take a look at the par 3 distances, and shots you may have to hit into greens on a 2nd or third shot (after subtracting your avg driver distance) it’ll help you figure out what to play. I’m going to have a lot more fun hitting irons into a green and having some birdie chances then if I’m always trying to crank a fairway wood in and missing or having long putts.

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I’m 80 years old and hit my driver pretty consistently 200-210. Since moving to the up tees I have had so much more fun. Now it’s driver and a medium iron rather than driver, fairway wood, pitching wedge. Having a chance to make some birdies makes all the difference in enjoyment for me.

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Average Wedge Distances Revealed (For Pro vs Amateur Golfers)

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Wedges are some of the most important clubs in your bag – regardless of whether you’re a pro or an amateur – and knowing how far you hit them is crucial for scoring low.

If you don’t know your average wedge yardages, or fail to hit them regularly when on the course, it can lead to less greens in regulation which, in turn, will put more pressure on your short game and likely lead to more bogeys (or worse).

Naturally, every golfer is built differently. Some players are taller than others, heavier than others or swing the club at higher speeds than others, and all these attributes factor in to how far you hit your wedges.

But, for the purpose of this article, I’ve listed what is considered the average wedge distances for pro golfers ( based off Trackman numbers ) and amateur golfers (based off my own research and playing with other weekend warriors) to give you an idea how far you should be hitting yours.

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Average wedge distances for pro male golfers

Average wedge distances for pro female golfers, average wedge distances for amateur male golfers, average wedge distances for amateur female golfers.

As you can see, there are a lot of variations between pro and amateur golfers when it comes to hitting wedges (and these differences are only accentuated further when comparing the numbers of male and female golfers ).

The key thing to remember when using your wedges is that they are a finesse club – and for this reason, you should rarely, if ever, try to hit them harder than what would be considered a ‘full swing’.

For the best result with your wedges, try and swing smoothly at around 80 percent while maintaining your balance ; you’ll find you’ll make better contact, reduce excessive spin on the ball (which can hinder your distance) and develop far better control.

For some top tips on how to hit your wedges, in all scenarios, check out some of our other articles below:

  • 4 Best Golf Chipping Techniques (And How To Master Them)
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  • Why Can’t I Chip? How To Cure Your Chipping Yips

How far should my wedges go?

The distance your wedges will travel will, above all else, be determined by the loft of the club you’re hitting. For example, a 48 degree pitching wedge will carry a lot farther than a 60 degree lob wedge. Your wedge distances will also be dictated by whether you’re taking a full, three-quarter or half swing.

How far should my pitching wedge go?

The average male golfer hits their pitching wedge between 95-115 yards (86-105 metres) when making a full swing, or as little as 75-95 yards (68-86 metres) with a half or three-quarter swing. Average female golfers hit their pitching wedge 70-90 yards (64-82 metres) with a full swing, or 50-70 yards (45-64 metres) when making a half or three-quarter swing.

How far should my 50 degree wedge go?

The average male golfer hits their 50 degree wedge between 90-110 yards (82-100 metres) when making a full swing, or as little as 70-90 yards (64-82 metres) with a half or three-quarter swing. Average female golfers hit their 50 degree wedge 65-85 yards (59-77 metres) with a full swing, or 45-65 yards (41-59 metres) when making a half or three-quarter swing.

How far should my 52 degree wedge go?

The average male golfer hits their 52 degree wedge between 85-105 yards (77-96 metres) when making a full swing, or as little as 65-85 yards (59-77 metres) with a half or three-quarter swing. Average female golfers hit their 52 degree wedge 60-80 yards (54-73 metres) with a full swing, or 40-60 yards (36-54 metres) when making a half or three-quarter swing.

How far should my 54 degree wedge go?

The average male golfer hits their 54 degree wedge between 80-100 yards (73-91 metres) when making a full swing, or as little as 60-80 yards (54-73 metres) with a half or three-quarter swing. Average female golfers hit their 54 degree wedge 55-75 yards (50-68 metres) with a full swing, or 35-55 yards (32-50 metres) when making a half or three-quarter swing.

How far should my 56 degree wedge go?

The average male golfer hits their 56 degree wedge between 75-95 yards (68-86 metres) when making a full swing, or as little as 55-75 yards (50-68 metres) with a half or three-quarter swing. Average female golfers hit their 56 degree wedge 50-70 yards (45-64 metres) with a full swing, or 30-50 yards (27-45 metres) when making a half or three-quarter swing.

How far should my 58 degree wedge go?

The average male golfer hits their 58 degree wedge between 70-90 yards (64-82 metres) when making a full swing, or as little as 50-70 yards (45-64 metres) with a half or three-quarter swing. Average female golfers hit their 58 degree wedge 45-65 yards (41-59 metres) with a full swing, or 25-45 yards (22-41 metres) when making a half or three-quarter swing.

How far should my 60 degree wedge go?

The average male golfer hits their 60 degree wedge between 65-85 yards (59-77 metres) when making a full swing, or as little as 45-65 yards (41-59 metres) with a half or three-quarter swing. Average female golfers hit their 60 degree wedge 40-60 yards (36-54 metres) with a full swing, or 20-40 yards (18-36 metres) when making a half or three-quarter swing.

How far apart should wedge lofts be?

Wedge lofts should be kept four degrees apart to give you optimal, consistent gapping numbers. If you carry a pitching wedge with 46 degrees of loft, then you should use a 50 degree gap wedge, 54 degree sand wedge and 58 degree lob wedge for the best results.

Similarly, if your pitching wedge has 48 degrees of loft, then you should use a 52 degree gap wedge, 56 degree sand wedge and 60 degree lob wedge to obtain the ideal gapping distances between each club.

If you have more than four degrees of loft between your wedges, it’s likely the gap between carry distances for each club will be too great and leave you needing to hit awkward half or three-quarter shots more often to try and cover the deficit.

If you’re unsure about which lofts your wedges should be, and whether you’re using the correct gaps or not, check out these articles below:

  • 50 vs 52 Degree Wedge: Which Gap Wedge Suits You Best?
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Can you hit a pitching wedge 200 yards?

It is possible to hit a pitching wedge 200 yards by placing the ball closer to the middle of your stance and striking it thin (meaning, contacting the belly of the ball with the leading edge of your club). Doing this will lower your ball flight and generate far more run-out for extra distance.

Of course, your pitching wedge isn’t designed to travel 200 yards and hitting it in this manner will make it harder to stop the ball quickly, and also control its direction and trajectory.

It is also an extremely difficult shot to execute as it requires precise ball-striking to intentionally thin the ball in a manner that will still get it airborne, while excessively lowering it’s usual flight in the process.

You can read more about how to vary your ball flight here .

What three wedges should I carry?

In golf, the three wedges you should always carry are a pitching wedge, gap wedge and sand wedge. The lob wedge is optional, however it can also be a great addition to your bag as it gives you more options when chipping over greenside obstacles, or hitting high-flighted pitch shots from the fairway.

Whether you carry three or four wedges in your bag is less important than making sure you have the correct gapping between each club.

A common wedge set-up is as followed:

  • Pitching wedge: 46 degrees of loft (125 yards)
  • Gap wedge: 50 degrees of loft (110 yards)
  • Sand wedge: 54 degree of loft (95 yards)
  • Lob wedge (optional): 58 degrees of loft (80 yards)

Another suitable set-up might be similar, but slightly different:

  • Pitching wedge: 48 degrees of loft (120 yards)
  • Gap wedge: 52 degrees of loft (105 yards)
  • Sand wedge: 56 degrees of loft (90 yards)
  • Lob wedge (optional): 60 degrees of loft (75 yards)

Start with a pitching wedge, gap wedge and sand wedge as a priority; then, you can always add a lob wedge later, if desired.

Which wedge is best for chipping around the green?

When chipping around the green in golf, it’s best to use a pitching wedge for bump-and-runs; a gap wedge for low chips that need less run-out; a sand wedge for mid-flighted shots that need to stop quickly; or a lob wedge for chips that require plenty of height and backspin.

As you can see from the answer above, there is no one single wedge that is best; you should use the wedge that best suits the situation.

I would, however, recommend mid-to-high handicappers practice getting really, really good with one wedge – preferably their pitching wedge.

One of the biggest things amateur golfers struggle with is getting up-and-down regularly and often it’s because they try to play high-lofted chip shots that require precise skills that they haven’t yet mastered.

The pitching wedge is the most forgiving of your wedges and getting good at playing the bump-and-run will give you the best chance of snuggling the ball close to the hole – rather than fatting or thinning it – and leaving you shorter putts as a result.

We’ve reviewed the best wedges on the market and rated them in a list here , which I definitely recommend you read if you’re considering buying new ones.

Final message

Your average wedge distances will vary depending on a lot of factors, ranging from your physical attributes (such as height and weight) right through to how fast you swing the club .

However, when it comes to wedge play, it really doesn’t matter if you hit the ball longer or shorter than your playing partners – what’s important is how accurate you are.

A strong wedge game will give you shorter putts on the greens, which will, hopefully, lead to more birdies and better scores.

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Golf Club Distance Chart

Golf Club Distance Chart

Golfers of all skill levels welcome the ultimate guide to choosing the best golf club distance for your game! Many amateur golfers don’t realize how much a slight change in their club selection can affect their performance on the green. If you want to improve your accuracy and maximize your shot distances, this article will provide essential information regarding the relationship between different clubs and distances.

We’ll cover everything from wedge selection to drivers and discuss factors contributing to successful distance control with each club. Let’s jump right into it and get closer to shooting par scores!

Introducing the Golf Club Distance Chart

The golf club distance chart is an invaluable tool to help you make the most of your game. By understanding how far certain clubs travel, you can adjust your shot selection and get closer to the pin more often than not.

Let’s take a look at the different clubs and their distances:

The wedge is the most versatile club in your bag and can travel short to long distances depending on how you apply the loft. In general, pitching wedges (PW) usually fly between 75-90 yards for men and 60-80 yards for women.

The 5 iron through 9 iron are designed for shots ranging from 120-180 yards for men and 80-150 yards for women.

The 3-wood and 5-wood are best used for long shots around 200-240 yards for men and 140-170 yards for women.

The driver is the longest club in your bag and can fly up to approximately 300 yards for men and 230 yards for women.

Now that you know the basic distances associated with each club, let’s delve deeper into the factors influencing how far a golf course will fly.

Different Types of Clubs

Before diving into the golf club distance chart, it’s important to understand the different types of clubs typically used in a round of golf.

There are four main categories: woods, irons, wedges, and putters. Woods are usually the longest clubs and are designed for maximum distance. Irons offer less power but more control than woods; they are used to hit shots accurately from longer distances.

Wedges blend distance and control and can be used for more delicate shots, such as pitching or chipping onto the green. Putters are designed for close-range precision and getting the ball into the hole.

Average Golf Club Distance

The average golf club distance chart is an incredibly useful tool for gauging the performance of your clubs. Knowing how far each club in your bag will fly can help you decide which one to use on a given hole. It’s also important to consider that different golfers have different swing speeds and body types, so what works best for another person may not be the best choice for you.

A few factors come into play when it comes to golf club distance. The first is your swing speed, which determines how much power and energy will be transferred to the ball upon impact. If you’re swinging too quickly or slowly, your club won’t reach its full potential. The type of club used will also impact how far it flies. Different clubs have different heads and shafts that determine their performance.

Using a launch monitor, use a golf club distance chart or take practice swings with each club to get an idea of your average golf club distance. Identifying your average distances for each club will make choosing the right club for each shot much easier.

Average Male Club Distances

When selecting the right golf club distance for your game, understanding average male golfers club distances is a great place to start. To begin, let’s look at some typical distances you can expect from common clubs.

Generally speaking, drivers are used for long-distance shots and typically have the longest loft of any other club type. An average man with a driver can expect to hit a ball between 220 and 260 yards. Moving on to fairway woods, these are designed for medium-distance shots that require more accuracy than a driver.

Fairway metals range in the loft from 13 to 18 degrees; an average man can normally hit them between 190 and 230 yards. Moving onto hybrids now, much like fairway woods, hybrids are also designed for medium-distance shots but typically have a higher loft than woods. On average, an average man with a hybrid will hit the ball between 170 and 210 yards.

Next up, we have irons designed to cover almost any distance from short to mid-range. Most golfers carry four iron clubs in their bag – a four-iron, five-iron, six-iron, and seven-iron – the four-iron being the longest at around 160 yards for an average man. The progressively shorter irons cover golf club distances from 140 to 90 yards.

Average Distance for PGA Tour Players

Before delving into the specifics of choosing the best golf club for your game, let’s look at the average distances professional PGA Tour players hit with each club. This information gives us valuable insight into how far an experienced golfer can expect to hit their shots when using high-quality equipment.

We can then develop our strategy for better golf club distance control using this data. Let’s begin with the driver, as this is the longest-hitting club in a golfer’s bag and the one most likely to have the biggest influence on overall distance.

PGA Tour players average around 300 yards off the tee on par fours and par fives with their driver. The average distance for three kinds of wood is 240 yards, and the average distance for five is 200. Moving on to irons, PGA Tour players hit their 7-iron an average of 150 yards, while their 9-iron has an average distance of 135 yards.

The pitching wedge averages 120 yards, and the sand wedge averages 115 yards. Finally, you can expect your lob wedge to travel about 85 yards.

What Impacts Driving Distance on Golf

What Impacts Driving Distance On Golf

When it comes to improving your golf game, one of the most important aspects is driving distance. This refers to the length you can achieve with a single stroke from the tee box. While it’s not the only factor that goes into a successful shot, being able to hit long drives off the tee is an invaluable skill for any golfer.

The distance you can hit your golf ball with a given club is affected by several factors. Your technique plays an important role in the distance you’ll be able to achieve, but more importantly, the type of club and shaft you use significantly impacts your driving distance. Let’s take a look at some of these factors in detail:

Golf Club Distance Chart:

You should first understand that different clubs have different ranges and distances. A 3-wood, for instance, will typically hit the golf ball much further than a 7-iron or a pitching wedge. Look at a golf club distance chart to estimate how far each club can carry your shot. This will give you the average distance for each club, depending on your swing speed, strength, and other factors.

A firm grip is essential regarding driving distance. If you don’t have a solid grip, you won’t be able to hit the ball as far as possible. Hold the club firmly and grip it with your index, middle, and ring fingers.

Club Head Speed:

Club head speed differs for each golfer, depending on the individual swing. The faster the club head moves through the air, the more energy can be transferred to the ball, ultimately producing a farther shot. To increase your club head speed, practice with a heavier club and gradually increase its weight.

Shaft Flexibility:

A shaft’s flexibility can also affect your driving distance. The more flexible the shaft is, the faster the club head can move through the air, providing more energy to your shot. Generally speaking, lighter clubs (like woods) tend to have more flexible shafts than heavier clubs, like irons.

Club Angle:

The angle at which you address the ball also impacts your driving distance. It won’t travel as far if you’re not hitting the ball straight and true. Make sure to practice keeping a consistent angle when addressing the ball so that your shots will be more accurate.

If you’re looking to maximize your driving distance, it’s important to understand how the different factors mentioned above can affect it. By using a golf club distance chart and ensuring that your grip, shaft flexibility, and angle are in good shape, you should be able to considerably increase your driving distances.

7 Tips to Increase Driver Distance

The driver is arguably the most important club in your bag, and maximizing its potential can significantly improve your game. Before making any changes to your swing or equipment, it is important to understand some key factors affecting how far you can hit with a driver. To get started on increasing your driver distance, here are seven essential tips that every average golfer should keep in mind:

1: Chart Your Yardages

The first step in improving your game is to take the time to accurately chart your yardages. A golf club distance chart will provide a starting point for adjusting your swing and equipment to maximize driver distance. To get the most out of this process, track different variables such as angle of attack, ball spin rate, carry distance, and even overall distances.

2: Improve Your Swing

Improving your swing is the most effective way to increase your driver’s distance. It takes time and practice, but developing an efficient motion will help you maximize the potential of every shot. First, focus on growing your golf muscles and improving your balance with regular exercises. This will make it easier for you to adjust to any changes in club speed or body position during your swing.

Next, practice the proper technique for driving. The takeaway should be smooth and consistent with a slightly descending angle of attack to help you launch the ball further. During the downswing, shift your weight evenly between your feet while maintaining flexibility in your arms and wrists. This will allow you to generate more power through impact and improve carry distance.

3: Hit the Gym to Increase Driving Distance

The golf swing is incredibly complex, requiring power, flexibility, and strength. To maximize your driver distance, you must ensure your body has the necessary capabilities to generate speed at impact.

One of the best ways to do this is by hitting the gym and doing exercises specifically designed for golf performance. Start with a comprehensive fitness program that incorporates all elements of fitness, like strength training, stability work, and aerobic exercise.

This will help you build a strong foundation for your golf swing. Incorporate exercises that target the muscles used in the golf swing to improve your range of motion and generate more power at impact. Make sure to include core strengthening exercises such as planks and Russian twists, as these will give you better balance and stability during your swing.

Flexibility is key for a successful golf swing, so include exercises that target the muscles used in the golf swing, such as leg lifts, shoulder stretches, back extensions, and chest openers. These will improve your flexibility and help you generate more speed at impact.

4: Get Fitted For The Right Golf Clubs

Getting fitted for the right golf clubs is important to any golfer’s game. The right set of clubs can make all the difference in accuracy and distance, so it pays to take the time to get custom fitted by a professional.

Before getting fitted, you should know what you are looking for in terms of club specifications. Different golfers have different preferences, so knowing what will work best for you is important. Factors such as your swing speed, body type, and height can all play a role in choosing the right clubs.

Once you know what you are looking for, you can begin the fitting process with a professional fitter. The fitter will discuss your preferences and goals before conducting various tests to determine the best clubs for your needs. This may include tracking your shots on a launch monitor, analyzing swing speed, or testing different clubheads and shafts.

5: Speed Up Your Tempo

Golf is a game of precision and timing, so having a steady tempo throughout your swing will help you hit longer more accurate shots. Speed up your golf swing tempo to get the most out of every shot.

Take a few seconds to relax your body before taking the club back. This will help you stay relaxed throughout the entire motion, which is important for accuracy and more distance. Once you feel relaxed, it’s time to gradually speed up your tempo. This will help increase the clubhead speed necessary for driving the ball further down the fairway.

6: Start Speed Training

Speed training is an important part of any golfer’s game. It helps improve your swing speed, power, accuracy, and overall performance. Speed training involves a combination of exercises and drills specifically designed to increase the speed of your golf swing.

The best way to get started with speed training is by understanding the key elements of a powerful golf swing. These elements include body position, weight transfer, club head speed, and swing timing. Mastering these key elements will help you increase your driving power and accuracy.

Once you understand the basics, start incorporating speed training exercises into your regular practice routine. Plyometric exercises such as box jumps, medicine ball throws, and lateral hops are great for improving the power and explosiveness of your swing. Incorporate these exercises into a dynamic warm-up routine to prepare your body for practice or competition.

7: Invest in New Equipment

No matter how much you practice, investing in new equipment can make a huge difference to your golf game. Whether it’s a fresh set of clubs or some of the latest technology, updating your gear can help boost your driver’s distance and accuracy.

The right golf clubs are important for maximizing your driver’s distance and helpful for improving swing accuracy. While there are some great off-the-shelf options, custom fitting for a set of clubs tailored to your swing can make all the difference.

A professional club fitter will analyze several key factors, such as height, body type, and swing speed, to recommend the best clubs for you.

The Golf Club Distance Chart is a helpful tool that shows golfers of all skill levels how far their shots should travel for each club. It combines factors such as the swing speeds, ball type, and club loft to provide distances for various clubs. By understanding these distances, golfers can better plan their shots and select the right club for their desired length.

Several factors affect the distance a golf ball will travel when hit with a specific club. These include the swing speed, ball type, and club loft. The slower your driver swing speed, the less distance you’ll get with each shot. The type of ball and the club loft will also affect shot distance. Combining these factors, the Golf Club Distance Chart can help golfers select the right club for their desired shot length.

You must improve your swing speed and select the right clubs for each shot to maximize your shot distances. Slower swing speeds make it more difficult to hit the ball further, so try warming up and focusing on increasing your speed. Then choose the right golf club for your game based on the Golf Club Distance Chart. This will help you get closer to your desired distance.

Improving your accuracy begins with ball placement. Select a spot on the green that’s easy to hit, and use the right golf club for the shot distance. Also, practice regularly and improve your swing speed to help you consistently hit straighter shots. You can improve your accuracy on the green by combining ball placement with improved average swing speed and accurate club selection.

To increase your distance, you must improve your swing ball speed. Regular practice and drills can help you gradually increase the speed of your swings. Additionally, lighter golf clubs will enable you to generate more speed with each shot. You can also switch to a higher lofted club, which helps hit the ball further up in the air.

I hope this article has provided enough information to help you decide which golf club distance charts is best for your game. Remember that success in golf relies heavily on accurate shot distances, and choosing the right clubs can go a long way toward helping you achieve optimal performance on the green.

Review our Golf Club Distance Chart when selecting clubs and factors such as trajectory, spin rate, and shaft flex. With the right knowledge and understanding of your clubs’ capabilities, you can use them to their fullest potential and take your game to the next level!

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How Far PGA Tour Players Carry Their Drives

What's the average carry of a PGA Tour player's drive, and how might that change in the future?

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The driving distance debate is one that stubbornly refuses to go away… although that’s something governing bodies the USGA and The R&A are probably hoping will change within a few years.

That’s because they have confirmed golf ball rollback plans that will see driving distances reduced at every level of the game, starting in 2028 in the professional game and from 2030 elsewhere. But how far do PGA Tour players currently carry their drives, and how will the changes affect the numbers?

Carry distance is an important stat to know, but why? Well, it’s one thing to know how far your drives have travelled after the ball has come to a stop, but if you’re weighing up potential problems ahead from the tee box, such as water, bunkers or rough, carry distance is the priority.

According to figures released by Trackman, which also show how far PGA Tour players hit every club in the bag , players on the circuit carry their drives an average 275 yards. 

That's over nine yards more than in 2007, when the PGA Tour began keeping carry distance records. Back then, the average carry distance was 265.7 yards. As with driving distances on the PGA Tour , that has increased over the years, but it won't stay on that trajectory indefinitely, because of the changes coming in 2028. 

That will see the game’s longest hitters lose between 13 and 15 yards of their total driving distance. However, the average elite male player will not be as affected and can expect a reduction of between nine and 11 yards. Naturally, this will have an effect on carry distance, too. 

Of course, the very longest hitters and average elite players are all part of the overall Trackman average, but it’s probably safe to assume that the average carry distance after the rollback will be around 10 yards shorter, or approximately 265 yards - in other words, somewhere close to the 2007 level.

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But what about the biggest hitter? After all, the further a player drives the ball, the more distance he will lose after the rollback. According to the PGA Tour website, Rory McIlroy , a key figure who supports the change , is at the top of the list for the 2022/23 season with an average driving distance of 326.3 yards.

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Let’s say that average comes down by the top figure given by the governing bodies once the change comes in – 15 yards. That will reduce his average driving distance to 311.3 yards, or a 4.5% hit.

McIlroy’s average carry distance for the same season is 307.4 yards and 4.5% of that is 13.8 yards. That means his carry distance could come down to around 293.6 yards after the rollback.

How Far PGA Tour Players Carry Their Driver

  • Club speed (mph): 113
  • Attack angle (deg): -1.3
  • Ball speed (mph): 167
  • Smash factor: 1.48
  • Launch angle (deg): 10.9
  • Spin rate (rpm): 2686
  • Max height (yards): 32
  • Land angle (deg): 38
  • Carry (yards): 275

Numbers: Trackman

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Golf Club Distance Charts By Age, Gender And Skill Level

Last Updated on January 9, 2024 by Matt Greene

How far should you hit the ball?

How do you compare to others?

It's always good to know that age, gender, and skillset are the biggest differentiators so you don't make unrealistic comparisons.

I did so much research on this article to bring you the most up to date information to help you quickly skim the tables and charts about golf distance.

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My golf distance charts show the key elements that influence how far you can hit each golf club: 

  • Swing speed
  • Smash factor
  • Quality and optimization of equipment

These factors are all heavily influenced by your physiology, skill, age and strength or flexibility levels. Very often, you can optimize each area, with some training or coaching or both.

Golf Club Distance Chart by Swing Speed

Swing speed is a major determining factor the golf club distances. It is not the only factor but if 100 people strike the ball the same, the fastest swings will carry the ball further.

  • Most golfers are around 90 mph driver swing speed. 
  • The average swing speed on the PGA Tour is around 114 mph. 
  • 150 mph is the top range and only long drive competitors will be swinging toward this range.

NOTE: The swing speed at the top of each column is driver swing speed. We use this as a general gauge to estimate the distance of each club thereafter.

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How do I swing the club faster?

You've compared yourself to the numbers in the chart but you want to hit it longer. Almost everyone does and there are 3 ways to swing the club faster:

  • Get lessons on proper mechanics with a professional swing coach. They will utilize all your physiological elements and limitations to the maximum, as well as help you hit the ball in the center of the club face. You can add as much as 10 mph to your driver swing speed with correct technique.
  • Get stronger and more mobile in the gym. Strength training plus mobility work with a trainer will increase your swing speed guaranteed. You will have a wider range of motion in your muscles and your strength will 100% translate into more speed. You can add 10-20mph to your swing depending on how advanced your strength and mobility currently is.
  • Get lighter golf equipment fitted to your swing. Lighter shafts can help increase your swing speed 2-5 mph.

These are the only ways to improve swing speed but the MOST important factor is the coaching and practice so that you can HIT THE SWEET SPOT of the golf club. 

The center strike means you send as much energy into the ball as possible and we measure how well you hit the ball using the Smash Factor.

What is  Smash Factor ?

Smash Factor is ball speed divided by club speed.

For example: 150 mph ball speed / 100 mph swing speed = 1.50 Smash Factor

The number calculated gives a ratio to show how much energy is moved from the club head to the golf ball at impact.

Low Smash Factor numbers mean less energy is transferred, while higher Smash Factor numbers mean you send more energy from your golf club into the golf ball.

The optimum Smash Factor number for excellent ball striking with the driver is 1.50 Smash Factor.

Ideal Smash Factor for every club

The PGA Tour golfers are the best in the world so we can use their averages to assume the best smash factors in the world. If you can attain these smash factor numbers as stated by Trackman , you are striking the ball as good as you possibly can.

Note how the smash factor decreases as the loft increases.

smash factor for pros

Skill level affects smash factor 

Distance is affected by the swing speed but MAINLY the quality of the strike related to that swing speed.

In other words, how close to the center of the club face you hit the ball will determine how your swing speed power is transferred into the golf ball.

If you employ a swing coach, they will assist you in hitting the ball in the middle of the face, or closer to the middle.

That will take your existing swing speed and optimize it by being more efficient with where you hit the ball on the club. 

The measurement we use for the quality of your strike is called Smash Factor.

Equipment affects swing speed and smash factor

The pros on tour have optimized equipment to their specific technique and skill level as well as body shape and strength.

The same swing speed in a PGA Tour pro will send the ball much further than an amateur golfer of higher handicap who has a similar swing speed.

The PGA Tour players technique is perfect so if you and a Tour pro hit the ball the same, the pro would still hit the ball further because their equipment has been customized to their exact swing.  

A fitting can help to optimize your strength and swing for more distance.

Average Golf Club Distance For Male Golfers By Skill Level

From 'Good Golfer' onward, the 2 iron down to 5 iron should improve as confidence and technique improve, thus bringing more swing speed. 

Beginner Golfer:  New to the game - first 6-12 months.

Average Golfer:  15-24 handicap .

Good Golfer:  6-14 handicap.

Excellent Golfer:  Below 6 handicap.

golf distance chart by skill levels

Swing speed charts by age and gender

Swing speed is a vital factor in determining the distance you hit the ball.

The swing speed, with a strike near the middle of the club face makes the ball go further.

A poor strike with high swing speed will go less distance. 

A pro golfer swinging at the same speed as an amateur gets wildly different distance numbers because they hit the ball in the center of the face often. 

Therefore, if you want to improve your distance with the same swing speed, you can work on improving your strike closer to the middle of the face.

Average swing speed by age and gender chart

In this chart we show the 50th percentile driver swing speed for each gender and age range according to the research done by TPI .

pga tour average pw distance

Driver Swing Speed Chart by Golf Skill Level

Confidence and skill make a big difference when hitting the driver efficiently and out the sweet spot.

Beginners with a driver  will be more tentative and have less effective mechanics.

Mid handicappers will be more adept at the driver  because of experience or lessons.

Advanced golfers swing with confidence from hitting a lot of golf balls and taking lessons with a pro.

PGA Tour golfers have optimized every aspect of the game with the driver and are the very tip of the spear. 

Is a 250 yard drive good?

Yes it is very good.  According to Arccos  and Shotscope , between 15% and 31% of golfers hit 250 yards or more.

Here is a video of me breaking it down.

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Ball Speed To Club Head Speed Chart for Driver

The ball speed off the driver face is dependent on the strike.

If your strike or Smash Factor is good, you will hit the ball further with your swing speed than the same speed with a bad strike.

Below, we take the club head speed and use a Smash Factor of around 1.42 which is 0.08 away from a perfect strike.

Ball Speed To Club Head Speed Chart for Driver

What swing speed hits 250 yard drives?

A swing speed of around 105 mph with the driver, and ball speed of around 150 mph  will produce a 250 yard drive.

Ball Speed To Club Head Speed for 7 iron

A 7 iron optimal smash factor is 1.33. That is the PGA Tour average.  Remember for the driver it is 1.50

The ball speed off the 7 iron is determined by the swing speed and smash factor.

As the clubs get shorter, the ideal smash factor actually changes.

What distance will you get from a 7 iron at every speed of swing?

What swing speed hits the 7 iron 150 yards?

A swing speed of around 76 mph with the 7 iron, ball speed of around 105 mph and dynamic loft of 21°  will produce a 150 yard carry shot.

Golf Club Distance Charts Other Important Factors

Every club has a different loft and more loft goes less distance, while less loft goes longer distance in combination with longer golf shafts. 

Driver usually goes furthest while the lob wedge around 60 degrees goes the shortest. 

The golf clubs of today go a lot further since the manufacturers started creating cavity back golf clubs in combination with lower lofts for the same clubs. 

Every club is between 2 and 5 degrees lower in loft in the current day, which automatically increases distance by up to 15 yards per iron compared to prior times. Driver lofts cannot get much lower as people will not be able to hit them. In order to hit a driver with a loft below 9 degrees, your swing speed needs to be incredibly fast. 

An important factor to note for slower swing speeds, is that a higher lofted fairway wood or higher lofted driver can actually GAIN you distance because low lofted clubs are harder to launch at slower swings. Most golfers should be playing fairway woods with a loft that does not go below 16 or 17 degrees . 

The club heads are bigger for all golf clubs in modern times with much larger sweet spots. With the addition of lighter shafts in both the irons and the woods, the ball speeds and swing speeds are higher as well. Check out our article on the flex of shafts in the current game. 

Golf Club Distance Charts of PGA Tour Golfers

Why are modern golfers longer than prior generations, physical fitness.

Most modern pros are in the gym multiple times per week and in the physio offices often. In prior generations during the Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus days, the pros were regular people who even used to enjoy a smoke and a drink on the course. 

Bryson Dechambeau is an example of someone who bulked up in order to hit it further and it made a big difference. The side effects of that can be disputed as he has slimmed down again.

Tiger Woods was one of the first modern day pros to begin working in the gym. His huge transformation to a big, strong guy inspired a whole new generation of golfers and now most up and coming pros are hitting the ball longer than even this generation of pros.

Club advancements

Lofts have changed and the lower lofts in irons will change how far the ball appears to go with the same 'number' iron.

A 7 iron from the 80s may have had 40° of loft while a current 7 iron can have as low as 28° of loft. That 12 degree difference makes a 20-30 yard difference in distance. 

The other important factor especially with the woods and drivers, is the materials of the clubs. The drivers now are lightweight titanium and carbon, with graphite shafts, optimized for huge distance.

That alone makes an astonishing difference when we compare to the old persimmon wooden clubs and heavy steel shafts.

The golf ball changed a lot with the release of the Pro V1. Golf balls just went further than ever before. 

They spin less, they go straighter and they have advanced to a point that the ruling authorities of golf want to make them go shorter to preserve the golf courses.

If the pros hit the ball too long, they need to extend the golf courses, and there is a lkmited amount fo land available. 

The balata golf ball is significantly shorter than the current urethane covered solid core golf balls they use today on the Tour. 

You can compare how you shape up against the average golfer, the senior golfer, the pro golfer and the advanced golfer. 

The key though is to understand your own game and your distances so you can more effectively plan your game and piece together a good golf score. When you fully understand and accept your distances that you hit the golf ball, you will score better.

For the pros and the advanced players, the distance they hit each club is not a matter of ego. It's a matter of 'which club gets the job done?' and they use that.

You can too, whichever distance you hit it.

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USGA/R&A release latest Distance Report: Here's what the numbers mean

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While Wednesday’s announcement that the USGA and R&A have narrowed their focus on ways to dial back distance at the elite level might have gotten all the attention, the ruling bodies also issued their annual Distance Report at the same time.

In its simplest interpretation, the Distance Report has been used to chronicle the imbalanced role distance is playing at the elite level. At first glance, this latest report may not have been the most convincing document. Year over year, driving distance on the PGA Tour, the European Tour (now DP World Tour), the Korn Ferry Tour and the Japan Golf Tour decreased in 2021 compared to 2020. And while average distances on the PGA Tour Champions, LPGA Tour and LET showed increases, each was below or just fractionally above their respective all-time highs.

But the point the ruling bodies want to make with the document is the overall trendline, which clearly has been much more upward than stable over the last 30 years. The reports use 2003 as a benchmark since that marks the first full year after the ruling bodies issued a Joint Statement of Principles that put elite driving distances on notice.

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Since 2003, according to their research, the average driving distance has increased 3.2 percent from 2003-2021. Moreover, the document makes the case that the PGA Tour statistic measuring all drives (compared to the metric that only accounts for two measured holes) was up 1.5 yards to an all-time high of 289.9 yards. Still, on the measured holes on the PGA Tour, 97 percent of the shots were hit with a driver, validating that number as the best indicator of where distance truly stands.

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Also, not surprisingly, the bulk of drives are getting longer, according to the report. Since 2003, the percentage of drives less than 280 yards has decreased on both the PGA Tour and European Tour, while the percentage of drives greater than 300 yards has increased. In 2003, about 40 percent of drives recorded on the PGA Tour and European Tour were 280 yards and less, while slightly more than a quarter of drives exceeded 300 yards. By 2021, those percentages had more than flipped. In 2021, less than a quarter of drives didn't reach 280 yards, while about 43 percent were longer than 300.

The Distance Report also details data on PGA Tour clubhead speed, ball speed, launch angle and distance. Since 2003, average clubhead speed is up two mph, ball speed is up five mph, launch angle is slightly down and average spin rates also have decreased. In 2021, the average launch angle (10.5 degrees) and spin rate (2,527 rpm) were close to USGA golf ball testing averages (10 degrees, 2,520 rpm). While the average clubhead speed was 115.1 mph—about five mph short of the current clubhead speed used in the ball test—the 90th percentile for clubhead speed (120.1 mph) is now right in line with that test speed.

The Distance Report also tracks the changes in scoring average across all tours. While it, too, reflects improvement in the last 40 years, the report characterizes scores showing a "slow creep downward" of .04 strokes per year since 1980. Since 2003, it shows the scoring average on the PGA Tour is essentially unchanged.  

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The ruling bodies' announcement on Wednesday of new “areas of interest” included the idea of raising the test swing speed of the golf ball’s Overall Distance Standard to “at least” 125 mph in order to more closely reflect tour player swing speeds. Data from the PGA Tour may indicate that 125 is about as rare as when the ruling bodies chose to update the test to a speed of 120 mph in 2004. This year, the average of the fastest swing speed each player on tour has recorded is about 119 mph.

Thomas Pagel, the USGA’s chief governance officer, said the Overall Distance Standard has adapted to the landscape of the elite men’s game as it has developed.

“We reflected on the intent of that rule to replicate the longest-hitting golfers at the time,” he said. “We just stepped back and observed what we’re seeing at the highest level today with the longest hitters, and recognized that 120 is no longer the number that replicates that. It was really, frankly, a reflection on history, and saying, ‘Are we at another moment in time where we need to go back in and revise this?’

“As for whether 125 is enough, we may find that 125 is not enough, or we may find that 125 is a good number. But 10 years from now, we need to plan on researching and looking at further change so that we can evolve and ensure that the rule continues to model or mirror what we’re seeing the longest hitters in the game doing.”

While the trend in driving distance is clearly upward historically, the rate of increase doesn’t seem out of whack with past numbers. The PGA Tour players may be hitting it 3.6 percent farther in 2021 than in 2003, but when compared to any other similar stretch of time, that rate is nowhere near the highest. In fact, it was the lowest ever recorded in any 18-year span and has been trending downward since 2012.

Then again, there is a fundamental difference between looking at the rate of growth in distance compared to the actual growth. In the last five years, distance on the PGA Tour is increasing at a rate of about a yard per year. That’s less than half what it was in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but more than double the rate from 1980-95. And when those increases are coming on top of a driving distance average that is in the mid-290s now compared to the low 260s then, that’s what has the ruling bodies concerned. It’s not the size of the distance gains, it’s that, at least to the ruling bodies, they don’t appear to be leveling off, despite all the equipment regulations. That’s especially concerning to them at a time almost two decades removed from their Joint Statement of Principles that declared “any further significant increases in hitting distances at the highest level are undesirable.”

The R&A’s Steve Otto, executive director-chief of technology, thinks any ideas about change aren’t simply a reaction to thwart new club and ball developments.

“It’s a recognition that the longest players on which we base the testing speed are getting faster, a recognition of the athletes improving,” he said. “I think that’s why we spent so long on the Distance Insights project. Because if you look year on year, it doesn’t seem to be an issue, but it’s taking that really long-term view.

“This is about where the future of the game is going to be 10 years out, 20 years out, 50 years out.”

The problem may be as simple, or as complicated, as this: Of the 30 longest hitters currently on the PGA Tour, only two (Luke List and Scottie Scheffler) have recorded victories this year and more rank outside the top 100 in FedEx Cup points  than inside the top 30. But not one player in the top 30 in FedEx Cup points is hitting it shorter than the tour’s current average driving distance. That number, 296.7, would set an all-time high.

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The average distance golfers hit each club varies widely. A PGA Tour player hits a 7-iron between 172-215 yards. Meanwhile, a short-hitting amateur male golfer averages 120 yards with the same club.

Average Golf Club Distance Chart

Here's how far mid-handicap male golfers can expect to hit each club. Of course, specific distances for each individual player will vary based on several factors, which we'll detail shortly. 

According to the USGA, golf’s governing body in the United States, the average male amateur golfer hits driver 217 yards , as recently as 2019. That same year, the PGA Tour average driving distance was 293.9 yards. Men, women, seniors, juniors, professionals, amateurs and beginners all hit their clubs different distances. The following golf club distance charts break down the average distances of golfers at many different levels of the game.

Key Factors to Achieve Distance

The total distance achieved by a golf club is based on several factors, including swing speed, the club’s loft, the carry distance achieved (Note: The carry distance is the yardage from the point of impact to the point of landing.), and even the weather.

Swing Speed

The faster your swing speed, the greater the distance. According to TrackMan , the average PGA Tour player has a driver club speed of 113 MPH, resulting in a 275 yard carry. Meanwhile, LPGA Tour players average 94 MPH with driver, and carry the ball 218 yards. 

Since we know that amateur male golfers hit driver an average of 217 yards, we can infer that average male golfers and LPGA Tour players have similar swing speeds, making the LPGA Tour average distances with each club a good benchmark for average amateur male golfers.

Each club face has a unique loft. For example, a driver is designed for distance and usually has only 8-13 degrees of loft. In comparison, a pitching wedge is designed to get airborne, with 41-46 degrees of loft .

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How to Accurately Measure How Far You Hit Your Clubs

According to thegolfmentor.com , distances achieved by short, mid and long hitters can vary by as much as 50% depending on the club and the gender (see actual average distance ranges below). Men tend to have faster swing speeds and hit the ball farther. However, many women are long hitters, with some LPGA pros hitting the ball as far, or farther, than men.

Distance can be greatly affected by the weather conditions. Hitting a ball into a strong wind will greatly influence distance, and a dry golf course will give you more roll, and therefore more distance, than a soggy course.

Average Distances for Men

Average distances for senior tour players.

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Average Distances for LPGA Tour Players

Tip: chart your distances for all your clubs.

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Go to the driving range and hit ten golf balls with each club. Keep track of the ten distances you achieve with each club. Repeat the charting monthly, or more frequently if you are actively working on your swing.

The distance achieved by a specific golf club will vary from player to player and from day to day based on the conditions. Tour distance information was compiled from stats on pgatour.com, lpga.com, TrackMan.com and golfwrx.com.

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Learning Your Yardages

Golf club distance chart.

How far are you supposed to hit each of your golf clubs? What is the golf club distance for each of your clubs? These are among the most-asked questions from newbies to golf. But the only completely honest answer is: It depends.

It depends on a lot of factors: the clubs you are using, the balls you are using, the conditions under which you play (hard fairway or soft fairway? windy or calm? humid or dry? etc.), your gender and age, your physical fitness, coordination and athleticism, your swing speed, how solidly you are connecting with the ball, and so on.

We'll share a golf club yardage chart below, but first, let's explain why you really shouldn't pay much attention to it or to others showing golf club distances that you can find on the Web.

Variation in Golfers' Distances

The average yardages for each golf club depends, and it varies widely from golfer to golfer. One person's 5-iron distance is another person's 3-iron distance is another person's 7-iron distance.

This is the most important fact to take away from this article: There is no wrong golf club distance, there is only your distance. And knowing your distances (also known as "knowing your yardages") is much more important than knowing how far each club is "supposed" to go.

Here's an interesting fact: While PGA Tour pros hit their drives anywhere from 280 yards to 320 yards on average, and LPGA Tour pros hit their drives from 230 to 270 yards on average, most recreational golfers, according to Golf Digest , average somewhere around 195-205 yards with their drivers.

The moral of that story? Don't compare yourself with the world's best players. Although some recreational players do outhit the pros, they are rare and you probably aren't one of them.

You'll quickly get an idea of whether you are a "long" hitter or "short" hitter by simply playing golf and comparing yourself to those you play with. (There's also an easy but time-consuming method of calculating your own, personal golf club yardages.) There's no shame in being a short hitter, and being a long hitter doesn't guarantee anything, and certainly not a lower score.

And of course, hitting the ball far doesn't matter at all if you can't also hit it straight or then get the ball onto the green.

But you didn't click on this topic to read all this, did you? You want that distance chart! OK, we'll give you a distance chart, but consider everything you've read to this point to be caveats on this subject.

The yardages listed in the chart below show a range for average amateurs, both male and female. As you'll see, the ranges are quite large and represent short hitters, medium hitters, and long hitters. (There are, of course, people who hit it longer, just as there are people who hit it shorter.)

Hybrids are numbered based on the iron they are intended to replace in your bag. A 4-hybrid, for example, is numbered thusly because the manufacturer is saying it replaces a 4-iron. A 5-hybrid is equivalent to a 5-iron, and so on.

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If you’re new to golf or looking to improve your game, understanding the distance each club can hit is crucial . It can help you identify the right club to use for each shot on the course.

However, it’s important to note that there are several factors that can affect how far a particular club can hit, including the swing speed, impact location, weather conditions, and launch angle.

In this article, we’ll discuss those factors, along with golf club distance charts in detail. It’ll provide you with a good starting point to understand the distances each club can typically hit.

Factors that Affect Golf Club Distance

Before getting into the details of different charts explaining golf club distances, let’s discuss major factors that can affect golf club distance.

Swing Speed

When it comes to hitting long golf club distances, swing speed, or club speed , is critically important. More swing speed leads to more energy transferred from the club to the ball, resulting in higher ball speed and more distance .

The following chart contains the average club speed by a player’s age.

Smash Factor

Smash Factor is the result of ball speed divided by the club speed . It provides you with a ratio of energy transfer from the club head to the ball.

A higher Smash Factor means a more efficient transfer of energy, resulting in more distance .

Impact Location

Hitting the “sweet spot” on the clubface results in the optimal transfer of energy , and increases the total distance covered by the ball. Whereas striking too high, low, or off-center can lead to lower smash factors and reduced distance .

Center of the club face

Watch this video to learn how to hit the sweet spot consistently.

PGA Tour professionals use custom-fit equipment tailored to their specific technique, skill level, and body shape. The same swing speed by a pro and an amateur will result in vastly different ball distances .

Additionally, the club type , such as wedges, irons, and drivers, also makes a difference because of different materials and sizes . If you are a beginner, we’ve written a post on the Best Golf Clubs for Beginners.

Weather and Course Conditions

Weather and course conditions such as wind and altitude can have a significant impact on club distance. Therefore, it’s essential to consider these factors when deciding on which club to use.

Skill Level

Skill level is another important factor that affects the distance of your shots. A beginner or average golfer will likely hit the ball much shorter than an experienced or professional golfer.

It’s essential to understand your skill level and work with it, rather than trying to emulate the shots of more skilled golfers.

Golf Club Distance Charts

Are you a beginner golfer and looking to improve your golf game? Knowing the average distance golfers hit each club can help you develop a more strategic approach .

The following golf club distance charts will provide you with information on the average distances golfers hit their clubs.

Golf Club Distance Chart for Men

Use the following chart to see the average distances that men hit using different golf clubs based on their experience level.

According to USGA (United States Golf Association) , an average male golfer achieves a drive distance of around 210 yards with a club speed of 80 to 90 MPH .

Golf Club Distance Chart for Women

Use the following chart to see the average distances that women hit using different golf clubs based on their experience level.

According to USGA statistics , the average drive distance for female golfers from 2013 to 2019 was 148 yards .

Golf Club Distances Chart by Swing Speed

As discussed already, swing speed does affect the drive distances and they’re shown in the following table. It’ll come in handy on the golf course when you’re not carrying a launch monitor or rangefinder.

Ball Speed to Distance Chart

The following values are rough estimates of the distance a golf ball will travel in the air, along with the corresponding club head speed and ball speed.

how to Calculate Your Average Distance

Understanding your average distance is a critical aspect of golf , as it allows you to make better decisions when playing on the course.

While a launch monitor is the easiest way to calculate your average distance, not everyone has access to one.

If you don’t have a launch monitor, consider using the following step-by-step method to calculate your average distance easily.

Step 1: Go to a Driving Range or Golf Simulator

The first step is to go to a driving range or a golf simulator . Once on the range, take at least your five best shots with each club, keeping your mind relaxed and calm.

Driving Range and Golf Simulator

After that, take another round of five shots (or more based on the number of your previous round) with each club from the same spots . This will give you a better understanding of your average distance for each club.

Step 2: Measure the Ball’s Distance

While taking shots, use a rangefinder to measure the distance of each shot after the ball becomes steady. Make sure that you write down the distance of each shot and also note which club you used . If you don’t have a rangefinder, then hopefully the range has flags or objects to give you an idea of distance.

Since different clubs have different distances, organizing the data in a table format can be helpful. This will make it easier to keep track of the information and analyze it later on.

Remember that accuracy is key , so take your time and ensure that you measure each shot correctly, or as close as possible. By organizing your data in a clear and concise way, you will be able to calculate your average distance with ease .

Step 3: Check the Prescribed Average Distance

The final step is to find the average of all your shorts for each club and compare the results with the prescribed average distance , discussed above, to see how well you’re doing.

For example, if the distances of your Driver shots are 210, 212, 214, 208, 205, 213, 218, 208, 219, and 203, then their average will be 211, which is pretty close to the average male player’s distance with the Driver club.

Remember that your average distance will vary depending on your skill level , swing speed, and other factors. So, don’t be too concerned if your average distance is different from the typical values provided online.

With time and practice , you can improve your average distance and become a better golfer.

Golf Tips: How to Increase Your Golf Distance

The following are the most useful tips to incorporate into your game to increase your driving distance.

Master the Fundamentals

Having a fundamentally sound swing is essential for hitting the ball farther. Poor weight transfer, incorrect grips, bad posture, and excessive hip turn are factors that can rob you of driving distance.

Consistent practice is one of the best ways to improve your fundamentals and develop faster swings, which can enhance your opportunity for increased distance.

Adjust Your Tee Height

A tee that’s too high or too low can negatively impact your shot’s trajectory and distance. Consider experimenting with different tee heights to find the optimal height for your swing.

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Use Your Wrists

When you have positioned yourself properly, allow your wrist to move freely. Hold the club with a proper grip by placing it on your fingers, which will give you the necessary stability to utilize your wrist during your swing.

Improve Your Flexibility

Keep in mind that tight muscles can prevent you from making a full turn, which can limit your power and drive distance. If you want to improve your body’s flexibility, we recommend you perform stretching and practice yoga.

Keep Yourself Physically Fit

Golf involves a lot of walking, which can be physically demanding. Therefore, it’s essential to stay fit and healthy to be able to play at your best.

You can consider taking up exercises such as weight training, cardio, and yoga to build up your core strength and improve your endurance.

Make sure that you focus on exercises that strengthen your lower body as they can help you generate more power in your swing.

Increase Your Clubhead Speed

The faster you swing, the more distance you can achieve. Focus on increasing your clubhead speed to get the most out of your shots. Work on building your core strength and flexibility to improve your swing speed.

Final Words

Knowing how far each of your golf clubs can hit helps you make better club selections on the course and enhance your game.

Remember that the distances discussed in this guide are based on averages and can vary depending on several factors.

However, they can serve as a good starting point to help you better understand how far each of your clubs should go on average.

With the right knowledge and consistent practice, you’ll be well on your way to becoming a better golfer to enjoy each game to its fullest potential.

Printable Golf Club Distance Charts

The chart below is a printable golf club distance chart for Men. Save the image to your computer and you can print the table below.

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The chart below is a printable golf club distance chart for Women. Save the image to your computer and you can print the table below.

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GOLF CLUB DISTANCES: PGA Tour and LPGA Tour pros vs Men and Women

How much further do pga tour and lpga tour pros hit the ball compared to us amateur golfers the average distances might surprise you. .

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Ever wondered how much further a PGA Tour and LPGA Tour pro hits the ball compared to male and female amateur golfer? Well you will want to check out the latest shot data below, which higlights the average distance for each club in the bag. 

The following average distances for men and women and PGA Tour and LPGA Tour pros have been calcuated by The Golf Mentor , and they measured in yards.

TOTAL DISTANCES: PGA Tour and LPGA Tour pros vs Men and Women

AVERAGE DISTANCES FOR MEN

The three different yardages provided for each club below are based on the averages for short hitters, mid hitters and longer hitters.

accImages.createImage(); AVERAGE DISTANCES FOR PGA TOUR PLAYERS

DRIVER:  289-323 3-WOOD: 243-304 5-WOOD: 230-288 3-IRON: 212-265 4-IRON: 203-254 5-IRON: 194-243 6-IRON: 183-229 7-IRON: 172-215 8-IRON: 160-200 9-IRON: 148-185 PW: 80, 105, 120

GOLF CLUB DISTANCES: PGA Tour and LPGA Tour pros vs Men and Women

AVERAGE DISTANCES FOR WOMEN

DRIVER:  150, 175, 200 3-WOOD:  125, 150, 180 5-WOOD: 115, 135, 170 3-IRON: 100, 125, 160 4-IRON: 90, 120, 150 5-IRON: 80, 110, 140 6-IRON: 70, 100, 130 7-IRON: 65, 90, 120 8-IRON: 60, 80, 110 9-IRON: 55, 70, 95 PW: 50, 60, 80

GOLF CLUB DISTANCES: PGA Tour and LPGA Tour pros vs Men and Women

AVERAGE DISTANCES FOR LPGA TOUR PLAYERS

DRIVER:  246-258 3-WOOD:  195-217  5-WOOD: 185-205 3-IRON: 180-192 4-IRON: 170-181 5-IRON: 161-173 6-IRON: 152-163 7-IRON: 141-154 8-IRON: 130-143 9-IRON: 119-132 PW: 107-121

How far do you hit the golf ball with each of your clubs? Are you above or below the averages highlighted above? Share your thoughts and comments over on our social media platforms - Facebook, Instagram and Twitter - or come and visit our GolfMagic YouTube Channel. 

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There are only 15 days remaining before the opening round of the 88th Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, the first major championship of the men's professional golf season.

While defending champion Jon Rahm is playing in the LIV Golf League, world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler has emerged as a heavy betting favorite after back-to-back victories on the PGA Tour. The 2022 Masters champion also knows his way around Augusta National pretty well.

With the PGA Tour headed to Texas for the last two stops before the Masters, starting with this week's Texas Children's Houston Open, it's a good time for the latest edition of the PGA Tour power rankings.

Of course, there's no surprise at No. 1. But during a season in which rookies and other lesser-known first-timers have won tournaments, you might have to look further down the list for superstars.

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1. Scottie Scheffler

The world No. 1 golfer is coming off back-to-back victories at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Players Championship. He has two top-10 finishes at Memorial Park Golf Course, including a tie for second in 2022. He could become the first player since Dustin Johnson in 2017 to win in three straight starts. Rory McIlroy was the last to do it in three consecutive starts in stroke-play events (DJ's streak included the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play).

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2. Wyndham Clark

The reigning U.S. Open champion was runner-up to Scheffler in each of his past two starts, finishing 5 strokes back at the API and 1 back at the Players Championship -- after his birdie putt on the 72nd hole cruelly lipped out. He was ranked No. 189 in the Official World Golf Ranking when he played in the 2022 Texas Children's Houston Open. Now, he's one of the best players in the world, ranking third on tour in shots gained: total (1.869), eighth in tee to green (1.214) and 12th in putting (.656).

pga tour average pw distance

3. Xander Schauffele

Schauffele couldn't hold a final-round lead at the Players Championship, but there's no question he has played spectacular golf lately. He has already piled up six top-10 finishes in eight starts this season, including top-5s in three of his past four. One of the top golfers in the world without a major championship victory, the former Olympic gold-medal winner will be riding a lot of momentum heading into the Masters, where he'll try to finally bag a big one.

pga tour average pw distance

4. Hideki Matsuyama

The 2021 Masters champion picked up his ninth PGA Tour victory at the Genesis Invitational in February. He followed that with a tie for 12th at the API and a tie for sixth at the Players Championship. Despite battling a back injury again, Matsuyama has been great from tee to green and around the green, but he ranks 134th in strokes gained: putting (-.378).

pga tour average pw distance

5. Ludvig Åberg

After picking up his first PGA Tour victory in his last start in 2023 at the RSM Classic, the former Texas Tech star hasn't slowed down. He has three top-10s in seven starts, including a runner-up finish at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He hits it long and straight and doesn't make many mistakes. He'll make his first start in a major championship at the Masters.

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6. Will Zalatoris

Zalatoris missed the cut in his most recent start at the Players Championship, but his form has returned after he underwent back surgery in April that sidelined him for the rest of 2023. He had a pair of top-5s against loaded fields in signature events -- a tie for fourth at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and for second at the Genesis Invitational. His ballstriking is as good as ever; he ranks sixth in strokes gained: approach (.789).

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7. Rory McIlroy

McIlroy seemed poised for a fast start after he tied for second at the Dubai Invitational and won the Hero Dubai Desert Classic for a record fourth time on Jan. 21. That success hasn't carried over to the PGA Tour, however, as he has just one top-20 finish in five starts so far -- a tie for 19th at the Players Championship. He ranks second in strokes gained: off the tee (.938) but 119th in approach (-.176).

pga tour average pw distance

8. Brian Harman

Harman's missed cut at last week's Valspar Championship might have been the result of a hangover from his narrow miss at the Players Championship. He finished 1 stroke behind Scheffler and had a good look for a tying birdie on the 72nd hole. The reigning Open Championship winner tied for 12th at the API.

pga tour average pw distance

9. Nick Taylor

The Canadian picked up his fourth PGA Tour victory -- and his second straight in a playoff -- by outlasting Charley Hoffman in two extra holes at the WM Phoenix Open on Feb. 11. Taylor ranks 127th in strokes gained: off the tee (-.158) but makes up for it with stellar iron play (15th in approach) and putting (20th).

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10. Matthieu Pavon

On Jan. 27, the 31-year-old became the first golfer from France since 1907 to win on the PGA Tour when he defeated Nicolai Hojgaard by 1 stroke at the Farmers Insurance Open. He also tied for seventh at the Sony Open in Hawaii and was solo third at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

pga tour average pw distance

11. Sahith Theegala

Theegala seems close to winning something big. He has four top-10s in eight starts this season, including in each of his past two -- a tie for sixth at the API and for ninth at the Players Championship. He's fourth on tour in shots gained: total (1.446) and seventh in putting (.821).

pga tour average pw distance

12. Sam Burns

Burns is tied with Theegala for third-most top-10 finishes on tour this season with four. He tied for third in the WM Phoenix Open and for 10th at the Genesis. He ranks 24th in shots gained: total (.875) and 23rd in putting (.542).

pga tour average pw distance

13. Cameron Young

Young narrowly missed out on picking up his elusive first PGA Tour victory again last week, finishing 2 strokes behind Peter Malnati at the Valspar Championship. It was Young's seventh runner-up finish in 60 tour starts, the most of any player without a victory dating back to 1970, according to ESPN Stats & Information. Young is too talented not to end the drought at some point.

pga tour average pw distance

14. Patrick Cantlay

The eight-time PGA Tour winner's results have been hit or miss so far this season. He tied for 11th at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and for fourth at the Genesis. Cantlay had four other finishes outside the top 35. His inconsistent play off the tee and iron play are to blame -- he ranks 143rd in strokes gained: approach (-.359) and 135th in driving accuracy (55.2% fairways hit).

pga tour average pw distance

15. Viktor Hovland

The reigning FedEx Cup champion, who looked ready to challenge Scheffler for world No. 1 at the end of last season, has limped through the first three months of 2024 with an average finish of 39.4 in five starts. He had just one top-20 -- a tie for 19th at the Genesis Invitational. Hovland has been frustrated with his swing and is working with a new coach, Grant Waite. His chipping woes have reemerged as well.

pga tour average pw distance

16. Jake Knapp

A nightclub bouncer just three years ago, Knapp became the third PGA Tour rookie to win this season when he captured the Mexico Open at Vidanta on Feb. 25. The former UCLA golfer has three top-5 finishes in 12 starts.

pga tour average pw distance

17. Chris Kirk

Kirk has cooled off a bit after capturing his sixth PGA Tour victory at the season-opening Sentry in Hawaii in January. It was his second win in 11 months after he came out on top at the Honda Classic in February 2023. He's 140th in strokes gained: putting (-.404) but has been more than solid off the tee and on approach.

pga tour average pw distance

18. Justin Thomas

JT's struggles seemed to be in the rearview mirror after he had four top-12 finishes in his first five starts this season. He took a couple of steps back with missed cuts at the Genesis Invitational and Players Championship and a tie for 64th at the Valspar Championship. Still, his form seems headed in the right direction again.

pga tour average pw distance

19. Shane Lowry

After a slow start to 2024, Lowry has rebounded with three consecutive top-20 finishes, including a tie for fourth at the Cognizant Classic and a solo third at the API. Lowry announced this week that he'll play with McIlroy in next month's Zurich Classic of New Orleans team event.

pga tour average pw distance

20. Matt Fitzpatrick

After a so-so start to the 2024 season, Fitzpatrick seems close to putting everything together after a solo-fifth finish at the Players Championship. He had missed cuts at the Sony Open, Genesis Invitational and API before he bounced back at TPC Sawgrass. He is driving the ball better off the tee after removing a 4-gram weight from the grip of the club. Fitzpatrick told PGATour.com that he forgot the weight was even there.

pga tour average pw distance

21. Max Homa

Homa came out of the gates well this season, tying for 14th at the Sentry and 13th at the Farmers Insurance Open. He also tied for eighth at the API. Homa has been wildly inconsistent off the tee, ranking 150th in driving accuracy (54.2%) and 115th in strokes gained: off the tee (-.117).

pga tour average pw distance

22. Byeong Hun An

The South Korean golfer lost to Grayson Murray in a playoff at the Sony Open in Hawaii and has played consistently well since. He has three top-10s and five top-25s with only one missed cut in eight starts. After losing his PGA Tour card in 2021, he has climbed back to No. 42 in the Official World Golf Ranking.

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23. Jason Day

The former world No. 1 golfer played some of his best golf at the tour's biggest stops this season. He had three top-10s against elite fields at signature events, tying for 10th at the Sentry, for sixth at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and had a solo ninth at the Genesis. He has finished 16th or better in two of his three starts at Memorial Park, where his elite short game is a weapon.

pga tour average pw distance

24. Tom Hoge

Hoge has been a model of consistency this season, making the cut in nine of 10 starts with a pair of top-10 finishes. He performed well on the West Coast swing with a tie for sixth at Pebble Beach and solo eighth at the Genesis. His iron play continues to be among the best on tour -- he ranks second in shots gained: approach (1.234) and proximity (34 feet, 7 inches).

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25. Peter Malnati

Bucket hats off to the PGA Tour policy board director, who picked up his second career PGA Tour victory -- and his first in 3,058 days -- at the Valspar Championship. He earned a two-year exemption, his first invitation to the Masters and a spot in the remaining four signature events of the season. He jumped from 184th to 65th in the world after the win.

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Kevin Kisner Betting Profile: Texas Children's Houston Open

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Kevin Kisner hits the links in the 2024 Texas Children's Houston Open March 28-31 in Houston, Texas. He is trying for better results than his last competition when he missed the cut at the Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Florida.

The Texas Children's Houston Open Tournament & Course Info

  • Date: March 28-31, 2024
  • Location: Houston, Texas
  • Course: Memorial Park Golf Course
  • Par: 70 / 7,435 yards
  • Purse: $9.1M
  • Previous Winner: Tony Finau

At the Texas Children's Houston Open

  • This is Kisner's first time competing at the Texas Children's Houston Open in the past five years.
  • With numbers of 4.236 in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee (second in field), 5.299 in SG: Approach the Green (ninth), and 7.931 in SG: Putting (second), Tony Finau won this tournament in 2022.
  • In addition, Finau's average driving distance was 302.4 (20th in field), he hit 77.78% of greens in regulation (first), and he averaged 28 putts per round (seventh).

Kisner's Recent Performances

  • He has failed to make the cut in each of his last five tournaments.
  • Kisner has not been in the hunt in any recent tournaments, as he's not posted a score better than the field average or finished within five shots of the leader in any of his last five events.
  • In terms of driving distance, Kevin Kisner has averaged 283.9 yards in his past five starts.
  • Kisner has an average of -0.563 Strokes Gained: Putting in his past five tournaments.
  • In his past five starts, Kisner is averaging -8.615 Strokes Gained: Total.

Kisner's Advanced Stats and Rankings

A dash represents a stat in which a player has not played a qualifying number of rounds this FedExCup season.

Kisner's Best Finishes

  • Kisner played 18 tournaments last season, securing one finish in the top five.
  • In those 18 events, he made the cut nine times.
  • Last season Kisner's best performance came when he shot -7 and finished 51st at the Sanderson Farms Championship.
  • Kisner placed 208th in the FedExCup standings with 70 points last season.

Kisner's Strokes Gained Rankings

Kisner's past results.

All stats in this article are accurate for Kisner as of the start of the Texas Children's Houston Open.

Note: The PGA TOUR has created this story via a machine-learning model using data from ShotLink , powered by CDW, in addition to player performance data. While we strive for accuracy and quality, please note that the information provided may not be entirely error-free.

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  1. TrackMan PGA Tour Averages Stats

    TrackMan Average Stats Taken From The PGA TOUR . TrackMan LPGA Tour Average Stats . Stats PGA LPGA Tour Averages. ... I'm about a half club off of PGA Tour average distance wise. Technically I'm a 1 handicap, but more like 4 or 5 when the tourney pressure is on. ... especially the irons!. I think 21-24-27-30-34-38-42-46 (3-Pw) are ...

  2. Golf Club Distances w/ Chart

    PW: 85 yards: 105 yards: 128+ yards: 107 yards: 136 yards: GW: 78 yards: 95 yards: 117+ yards: SW: ... look at the correlation of club head speed vs carry distance for PGA Tour players in the scatter plot below: 2020 PGA Tour Players Average Club Head Speed vs Average Carry Distance, Data Source: pgatour.com.

  3. PGA Tour player average distances: Driver, irons, wedges through the bag

    The average PGA Tour player doesn't hit their driver as ... PW: 120-140 yards ... 80-110 yards; Tags how far do pga tour players hit their clubs PGA Tour average distance per club PGA Tour average ...

  4. How Far Do Pro Golfers Hit Each Club? A 2022 Guide

    PGA Tour players hit their driver a 'total' of 296.6 yards on average with a 'carry' distance of 284.3 yards according to official 2022 Shotlink data. The longest player hits it 320 yards on average and the longest recorded drive in 2022 is 460 yards. On the LPGA Tour the top pros hit their driver an average of 257.7 yards.

  5. REVEALED: PGA Tour average CARRY DISTANCES

    PGA TOUR AVERAGE CARRY DISTANCES 2021. DRIVER - 275 YARDS. 3 WOOD - 243 YARDS. 5 WOOD - 230 YARDS. HYBRID - 225 YARDS. 3 IRON - 212 YARDS. 4 IRON - 203 YARDS. 5 IRON - 194 YARDS. 6 IRON - 183 YARDS.

  6. How Far PGA Tour Players Hit Every Club In The Bag

    From 3-wood down, between 9-13 yards of carry is lost as you move through the bag. Using a variety of hybrid clubs with head angles of between 15 and 18 degrees, the median distance for PGA Tour players to carry that particular tool is 225 yards. The average shot hit with a 4-iron on the PGA Tour carries 203 yards as a result of 96mph club-head ...

  7. Golf Swing Speed Chart: Averages By Age, Skill, and More

    Average PGA TOUR Club Head Speeds. ... Tour Pro Golfer Average Driving Distance - 299.40; PGA TOUR Slowest 10 Driver Swing Speed Averages. RANK: PLAYER: AVG SWING SPEED: AVE DRIVING DISTANCE: 180: Zach Johnson: 108.39: ... PW: 83: 136 *Data compiled from TrackMan's 2017 PGA TOUR Data Points.

  8. Average Golf Club Distances: Charts for All Skill Levels

    PGA Tour Players: Average Golf Club Distances. ... For example, the average full driver distance on the PGA tour is roughly 320 yards. It's safe to say that PGA pros drive the ball much further than the average golfer. ... Start with your 7-iron, PW, and driver. If you hit each club 50 times and eliminate the 5 worst and 5 best, that will ...

  9. Golf Club Distance Guide: How Far Should I Be Hitting My Clubs?

    72. 125. 9 Iron. 70. 116. PW. 68. 106. As you can see in the numbers above, there is quite a significant difference between the distances of the average golfer and the scratch golfer; about 25-30 yards or 2-3 clubs.

  10. 2024 PGA Tour

    A. Bjork. Alexander Bjork. 272.6. 7634. 28. —. Wondering who leads the PGA Tour in drive distance, consecutive cuts, scoring average, or putts per hole? CBS Sports has all of those statistics ...

  11. How Far Should You Hit Your Golf Clubs?

    The chart is based off the PGA Tour average carry distances that were reported by Trackman (see the first chart in the top of the article), the average total driving distance from the PGATour.com website (about 289 yards), and the average PGA Tour swing speed (about 112 mph).

  12. Golf Club Distance Chart (Complete Guide to Yardages & Speed)

    PW: 73: 85: 97: 109: 121: 134: 146: 158: 170: Distance (yds) by Swing Speed (mph) ... What is the average golf drive distance? An average male swings the driver at 94 mph, traveling around 240 yards. ... A PGA Tour player hits the driver an average of 295 yards (some are much longer, like DeChambeau at 320 yds). An LPGA player drives the ball ...

  13. Average Wedge Distances Revealed (For Pro vs Amateur Golfers)

    The average male golfer hits their 54 degree wedge between 80-100 yards (73-91 metres) when making a full swing, or as little as 60-80 yards (54-73 metres) with a half or three-quarter swing. Average female golfers hit their 54 degree wedge 55-75 yards (50-68 metres) with a full swing, or 35-55 yards (32-50 metres) when making a half or three ...

  14. Golf Stat and Records

    PGA TOUR Stats. PGA TOUR, PGA TOUR Champions, and the Swinging Golfer design are registered trademarks.

  15. Club Distance Chart Resource Guide

    The average distance for three kinds of wood is 240 yards, and the average distance for five is 200. Moving on to irons, PGA Tour players hit their 7-iron an average of 150 yards, while their 9-iron has an average distance of 135 yards. The pitching wedge averages 120 yards, and the sand wedge averages 115 yards.

  16. How Far PGA Tour Players Carry Their Drives

    According to the PGA Tour website, Rory McIlroy, a key figure who supports the change, is at the top of the list for the 2022/23 season with an average driving distance of 326.3 yards. Let's say that average comes down by the top figure given by the governing bodies once the change comes in - 15 yards.

  17. Golf Stat and Records

    If you are a golf fan, you don't want to miss the PGA TOUR Stats, where you can find the latest and most comprehensive data on players, tournaments, records, and more. Whether you want to follow ...

  18. Golf Club Distance Charts By Age, Gender And Skill Level

    The average swing speed on the PGA Tour is around 114 mph. 150 mph is the top range and only long drive competitors will be swinging toward this range. NOTE: The swing speed at the top of each column is driver swing speed. We use this as a general gauge to estimate the distance of each club thereafter.

  19. USGA/R&A release latest Distance Report: Here's what the numbers mean

    Since 2003, according to their research, the average driving distance has increased 3.2 percent from 2003-2021. Moreover, the document makes the case that the PGA Tour statistic measuring all ...

  20. What Is the Average Distance With Each Golf Club?

    Lob Wedge. 70 yds. According to the USGA, golf's governing body in the United States, the average male amateur golfer hits driver 217 yards, as recently as 2019. That same year, the PGA Tour average driving distance was 293.9 yards. Men, women, seniors, juniors, professionals, amateurs and beginners all hit their clubs different distances.

  21. Golf Club Distances: How Far Should You Hit Your Irons?

    The Golf Club Distance Chart—and Why You Shouldn't Worry About It. By. Brent Kelley. ... While PGA Tour pros hit their drives anywhere from 280 yards to 320 yards on average, and LPGA Tour pros hit their drives from 230 to 270 yards on average, ... PW: 80-105-120: 50-60-80: SW: 60-80-100: 40-50-60:

  22. Golf Club Distance Charts: How Far Should I Hit Each Club?

    PGA Tour professionals use custom-fit equipment tailored to their specific technique, skill level, and body shape. ... Knowing the average distance golfers hit each club can help you develop a more strategic approach. ... PW (Pitching Wedge) 146 yards: 135 yards: 110 yards: 100 yards: 70 yards: GW (Gap Wedge) 135 yards: 125 yards:

  23. GOLF CLUB DISTANCES: PGA Tour and LPGA Tour pros vs Men and Women

    How much further do PGA Tour and LPGA Tour pros hit the ball compared to us amateur golfers? The average distances might surprise you. ... which higlights the average distance for each club in the ...

  24. Sam Ryder Betting Profile: Texas Children's Houston Open

    Average Driving Distance 172 282.4 283.5; Greens in Regulation % 1 % 66.32%; Putts Per Round 1 28.6; Par Breakers 1 % ... PGA TOUR, PGA TOUR Champions, and the Swinging Golfer design are ...

  25. Akshay Bhatia Betting Profile: Texas Children's Houston Open

    In addition, Finau's average driving distance was 302.4 (20th in field), he hit 77.78% of greens in regulation (first), and he averaged 28 putts per round (seventh). ... PGA TOUR Champions, and ...

  26. 'It's a joke': How this tour pro stumbled upon a rare driver build

    Phillips is the only pro using Ping's Alta CB 55S driver shaft on the PGA Tour. ... (about 4 mph below the Tour average), ... with ball speed and carry distance seeing a noticeable uptick as ...

  27. Why Tony Finau is switching driver shafts at Texas Children's Houston

    Tony Finau is typically known as one of the best drivers on the PGA TOUR every year, but the start to 2024 hasn't lived up to his standard. ... which jumped from an average of 2,715.3 rpm per ...

  28. PGA Tour Power Rankings: Two stops 'til the Masters

    With the PGA Tour headed to Texas for the last two stops before the Masters, starting with this week's Texas Children's Houston Open, it's a good time for the latest edition of the PGA Tour power ...

  29. Robert MacIntyre Betting Profile: Texas Children's Houston Open

    In addition, Finau's average driving distance was 302.4 (20th in field), he hit 77.78% of greens in regulation (first), and he averaged 28 putts per round (seventh). MacIntyre's Recent Performances

  30. Kevin Kisner Betting Profile: Texas Children's Houston Open

    In addition, Finau's average driving distance was 302.4 (20th in field), he hit 77.78% of greens in regulation (first), and he averaged 28 putts per round (seventh). Kisner's Recent Performances