{"id":8409,"date":"2025-09-09T20:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=8409"},"modified":"2025-09-09T20:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:30:18","slug":"your-iron-distances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/your-iron-distances\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Iron Distances"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a single-digit player, of course I hit pretty good shots more often than not. But the key to scoring was knowing my iron distances.<\/p>\n

I hit my 7-iron 142 yards. I wasn’t a long hitter but a consistent one. I got right around 142 every time I got the club squarely on the ball. I knew my distance for all the other irons, too. <\/p>\n

That gave me the freedom to adjust, depending on the shot conditions. I could take a few yards off the 7, or maybe play a 6 instead for that distance. <\/p>\n

That’s what let me hit greens (i.e., not be short all the time<\/a>) and often get the ball hole-high. That’s a real key to scoring, and you can’t do it if you don’t know your distances.<\/p>\n

Go to a place where there is a launch monitor you can use and figure this out for your irons (wedge distances<\/a> are another story). Having this information and learning how to use it will change you, as Johnny Miller says, from a golfer to a player. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a single-digit player, of course I hit pretty good shots more often than not. But the key to scoring was knowing my iron distances. I hit my 7-iron 142 yards. I wasn’t a long hitter but a consistent one. I got right around 142 every time I got the club squarely on … Continue reading Your Iron Distances<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playing-the-game","category-supporting-your-golf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-2bD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8414,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions\/8414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}