I was at the range again today. It's good exercise. It also looks like there may be some rain tomorrow and I might not get out tomorrow.
I have a club head meter and I tried a couple of of the speed enhancement techniques. None of them seemed to work.
I went off to the range and worked on some of this. I found I was a few yards longer today than yesterday. The irons didn't seem any longer, but it was hard to tell.
I'm also a bit leery of screwing up my nice ball striking. It might be prudent to make sure that soaks in and is there under pressure before I try to distort it.
But I'll keep thinking about it. It's that old theoretical mind of mine, per father that looks for understanding and reason before adoption.
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?
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ReplyDeleteLet 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.
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, 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!