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Comment:

Say a player's average drive is 250 yards vs. 230 yards. How much better will that player score? How many putts do you average in a round? How many times do you get up and in from around the green? How often from 100 yards out do you miss the green?

Reply:

Let address these in reverse order.  I expect to hit a green when I'm 120 or in.  From 100 yards it has to be close to 90% and maybe higher.

Ups and downs is 70% or so.  Some of that depends on the greens; lots of slope and grain make it more difficult to chip or pitch closely.

Putts per round vary based on how many GIRs I get.  The other day playing from short tees, I hit 16 greens.  But only made one birdie. But miss a lot of greens, then I one putt a bunch.  To some degree more putts means a better long game.

As for tee length, if I could get out 250 on on the fairway, I would expect to hit all the greens for holes less than about 380 yards.  And on my course that would mean that I would easily get to all of them.  As for general scoring it would come down to the player's iron game.

Thanks for the comment!