Ten years ago, when I was playing my best, I had a 9 handicap. Now, I’m 74 years old, with health problems, and the game I played back then is a distant memory. So I have adapted. But that’s another post.<\/p>\n
What I want to tell you today that you don’t have to hit the ball out of sight to score well. For recreational golfers, there are other things that are much more important than distance. Let me get right to the point. These are the distances that got me into single-digit golf:<\/p>\n
Driver (total) – 235
\n(remaining distances are carry only)
\n2-hybrid – 200
\n3-hybrid – 187
\n4-hybrid – 174
\n5-iron – 158
\n6-iron – 150
\n7-iron – 142
\n8-iron – 132
\n9-iron – 122
\nPW – 113<\/p>\n
What got me into single digits with these rather unimpressive distances was:
\nhitting the ball very straight,
\nbeing a very good chipper,
\nbeing a very good aproach putter,
\nknowing how to hit off any unusual lie you can name,
\nplaying shots I could hit, not ones somebody way better than me would hit,
\nhitting the ball to high-value targets,
\nthinking only of the next shot; leaving behind everything else, good or bad.<\/p>\n
Distance is nice to have, but each of us can hit the ball only so far. The trick is to develop a game around the distance you have, not the distance you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ten years ago, when I was playing my best, I had a 9 handicap. Now, I’m 74 years old, with health problems, and the game I played back then is a distant memory. So I have adapted. But that’s another post. What I want to tell you today that you don’t have to hit the … Continue reading My So-So Distances<\/span>