How Far Do You Hit Your Golf Ball?
Golf players love to relate to you how far they can drive the ball. However what they are really referring to is how far they can hit their best drives, and even then most golfers like to exaggerate how far they can really hit the ball. It makes for great banter in the 19th hole!
Know your distances
When I ask "how far do you hit the golf ball?" you must not think about how far you could hit the ball. I am not talking about your driving ability. What I am referring to is how far you hit the golf ball with every one of your golf clubs.
If you want to score to the best of your ability, you need to know exactly which club to take to get the ball into the right place. That is, you need to select the club that with most probability will propel the ball the required distance, in the direction you want it to go in.
You need to know how far you hit the ball on average with each club in your bag.
When you work out the distance you hit the ball with each club, make sure you take the average distance. You need to know how far the ball will go with a club most of the time.
Calculate "carry"
Another important aspect to consider is 'carry' distance.
On wet fairways the ball will stop quickly. The ball will stop quickly on soft greens. So what is more important is how far the ball travels in the air before it hits the ground.
The advantage of this is you will know, fairly accurately, precisely where you expect the ball to land. This is critical if you are to fly the ball over hazards such as water. It is not important that the ball goes a total distance of 100 yards. It is far more important to know that the ball will fly the hazard at 95 yards!
So you need to know how far the golf ball carries with each golf club in your bag.
Plan your way round the course
Once you have this information you can plan your way round the golf course much more effectively.
To produce your best score you need to calculate the distance to target for each shot. Once you know how far you have to go then you can choose the correct club easily.
If you start to plan your way round the course based on the required carry distance on each shot you may find that you get closer to the pin more often, and your scores start to fall.
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