Driving distance

TheDoc · 22-07-2014 2:45pm

I'm out for practice tonight and will use the links above to get some numbers.

I consider myself a big hitter only because people I play with tell me, in that I'm always out ahead by big distance, and when I play with notorious big hitters in the club I'm up alongside them

Be interested to see what figures I get tonight. Is Ruler for earth a PC programme? Assumed it was an inapp function.

How exactly are you using it to measure yardage? WAsn't aware it had ability to save pin locations like say maps.

Hijpo · 22-07-2014 2:49pm

Very rarely use driver off the tee as its pretty erratic but using the ruler tool on maps its saying im hitting my Adams 21 degree rescue 220 yards off the tee.

bicboy6666 · 22-07-2014 3:03pm

average over 260 yards, im 18, hard to judge though

alxmorgan · 22-07-2014 3:04pm

Hijpo wrote: »

Very rarely use driver off the tee as its pretty erratic but using the ruler tool on maps its saying im hitting my Adams 21 degree rescue 220 yards off the tee.

Keep doing that then

Wombatman · 22-07-2014 4:55pm

200M. Age 44. Distances improving with technique.

dan_ep82 · 22-07-2014 8:18pm

I was playing with a young golfer today and he was driving the ball extremely well. He's the fourth such junior I've come across that would average 260+ off the tee and have one or two 280yds drives a round. He had a legitimate 300yd drive today and he's only 16.

There's a lot of juniors in the club and a lot of them off single figures, and while they don't all hit it long a good chunk do

Tones69 · 22-07-2014 8:44pm

dan_ep82 wrote: »

I was playing with a young golfer today and he was driving the ball extremely well. He's the fourth such junior I've come across that would average 260+ off the tee and have one or two 280yds drives a round. He had a legitimate 300yd drive today and he's only 16.

There's a lot of juniors in the club and a lot of them off single figures, and while they don't all hit it long a good chunk do

I regularly play with a 17 yr old who is as long as me if not a little longer. Quality ball striker too. Off 3.6 at the mo but should deffo get lower

redzerdrog · 22-07-2014 10:16pm

Measured a few that I hit the other day using that google ruler

Hole 1 – 221 yards
Hole 2 – 271 yards
Hole 3 – 250 yards
Hole 4 – 322 yards
Hole 5 – 255 yards
Hole 6 – 260 yards
Hole 7 – 260 yards

Averages about 263 yards but conditions were perfect id say i am close to the 250 yard mark on average.

The_Kew_Tour · 22-07-2014 10:58pm

is there a app for iphone or android that measures driving distance?

whizbang · 23-07-2014 1:00am

Swing by swing for android has a usable distance indication, but i find it unreliable, and lately, it just bounces back with an ad every time i try to mark it.

rrpc · 23-07-2014 7:28am

TheDoc wrote: »

I'm out for practice tonight and will use the links above to get some numbers.

I consider myself a big hitter only because people I play with tell me, in that I'm always out ahead by big distance, and when I play with notorious big hitters in the club I'm up alongside them

Be interested to see what figures I get tonight. Is Ruler for earth a PC programme? Assumed it was an inapp function.

How exactly are you using it to measure yardage? WAsn't aware it had ability to save pin locations like say maps.

The ruler is part of Google Earth, it's on the toolbar. You choose what dimension to use: yards, feet, metres, kilometres

, then click your start point and end point and it gives you the length.

As said above, hours of endless fun

rrpc · 23-07-2014 7:40am

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

is there a app for iphone or android that measures driving distance?

I'm using an app called Golflogix at the moment. There's a free version and a paid version but the free version is fine. It gives distances to the centre of the green, from which you can calculate your drive distance. Has most of the Irish courses in its database. It also saves your score cards for you if you enter your shots after each hole.

Runs on all platforms: Android, iPhone and Windows Phone.

TheDoc · 23-07-2014 10:58am

rrpc wrote: »

The ruler is part of Google Earth, it's on the toolbar. You choose what dimension to use: yards, feet, metres, kilometres , then click your start point and end point and it gives you the length.

As said above, hours of endless fun

I couldnt find this oddly enough. So I got a uler app that integrates with google maps and google earth. Must see about this inbuilt ruler.

Anyway ran the ruler last night out on the course for my drives.

Average was 297yrds. Thrilled considering it's what I would have "thought" my distance was, and there was a stiff enough breeze.

Found myself using the app non stop to be honest, more so with my irons. Something I've never really put much time into was measuring my irons. I kinda have a good "feel" in terms of what distance I can hit my irons, but it was a good help in actually measuring my irons out.

Had a few scruffy practice balls and marked them the number of the iron I was hitting. Went to a flat fairway and just hit a ball for each iron. Going to integrate that into my practice for a bit, to see if I can get a good grip on how far I hit my irons.

Interesting last nigh, and something I had kinda knew already, was I hit my 4iron further then my 21* Hybrid, which is weird.

GreeBo · 23-07-2014 11:33am

rrpc wrote: »

I'm using an app called Golflogix at the moment. There's a free version and a paid version but the free version is fine. It gives distances to the centre of the green, from which you can calculate your drive distance. Has most of the Irish courses in its database. It also saves your score cards for you if you enter your shots after each hole.

Runs on all platforms: Android, iPhone and Windows Phone.

Thats a terribly inaccurate way of doing it unless you know exactly how the hole was measured from the tee.

The only way to measure is to mark the tee and then mark where your ball is and use GPS or Google to give you the number. Relying in anyway on the numbers on the card/tee is woefully inaccurate.

Tom.D.BJJ · 23-07-2014 11:36am

TheDoc wrote: »

I couldnt find this oddly enough. So I got a uler app that integrates with google maps and google earth. Must see about this inbuilt ruler.

Anyway ran the ruler last night out on the course for my drives.

Average was 297yrds. Thrilled considering it's what I would have "thought" my distance was, and there was a stiff enough breeze.

Found myself using the app non stop to be honest, more so with my irons. Something I've never really put much time into was measuring my irons. I kinda have a good "feel" in terms of what distance I can hit my irons, but it was a good help in actually measuring my irons out.

Had a few scruffy practice balls and marked them the number of the iron I was hitting. Went to a flat fairway and just hit a ball for each iron. Going to integrate that into my practice for a bit, to see if I can get a good grip on how far I hit my irons.

Interesting last nigh, and something I had kinda knew already, was I hit my 4iron further then my 21* Hybrid, which is weird.

What's the app called?

ozymandias10 · 23-07-2014 12:04pm

TheDoc wrote: »

I couldnt find this oddly enough. So I got a uler app that integrates with google maps and google earth. Must see about this inbuilt ruler.

Anyway ran the ruler last night out on the course for my drives.

Average was 297yrds. Thrilled considering it's what I would have "thought" my distance was, and there was a stiff enough breeze.

Found myself using the app non stop to be honest, more so with my irons. Something I've never really put much time into was measuring my irons. I kinda have a good "feel" in terms of what distance I can hit my irons, but it was a good help in actually measuring my irons out.

Had a few scruffy practice balls and marked them the number of the iron I was hitting. Went to a flat fairway and just hit a ball for each iron. Going to integrate that into my practice for a bit, to see if I can get a good grip on how far I hit my irons.

Interesting last nigh, and something I had kinda knew already, was I hit my 4iron further then my 21* Hybrid, which is weird.

any chance these apps are like the old weighing scales...you need to make sure it is at zero before you weigh

TheDoc · 23-07-2014 2:14pm

Tom.D.BJJ wrote: »

What's the app called?

Maps Ruler 2 is the one I got. You go via the app itself and its integrated with Google maps.

ozymandias10 wrote: »

any chance these apps are like the old weighing scales...you need to make sure it is at zero before you weigh

Is that a roundabout way of you saying I'm bull****ting?

GCW · 23-07-2014 3:23pm

Last time I played, I measured average drives with driver for 9 holes using Google Earth. Discounted 2 holes where I hit 4i off the tee. Averaging 253yds - info below.

270 (downhill, with slight breeze)
255 (flat, into slight breeze)
243 (uphill)
250 (slightly downhill)
235 (flat, into slight breeze)
270 (wild hook that chased up the fairway of adjacent hole

)

Looks pretty impressive (to me). However, the ground is rock hard at the moment the air is warm. By my calculations, a Sunday best dig in normal Irish conditions would be on average, about 15yds shorter and that's with a "Sunday best" being counted on each hole.

I think we all take the average of our Sunday best on every hole and then add about 15 yards when we answer these questions without hard facts to back them up!

Senna · 23-07-2014 3:48pm

My distance would be poor at the moment, maybe 210 yards average, playing a weak high shot at the moment, but it's keeping me in play and I'm happy to keep to it.
Was playing a very low draw for a couple of years when I was playing links, I'd say my average was 240 yards then and that was never hitting it out of the middle.
Links fairways would add 30 yards to anyone's average.

rrpc · 23-07-2014 4:36pm

GreeBo wrote: »

Thats a terribly inaccurate way of doing it unless you know exactly how the hole was measured from the tee.

The only way to measure is to mark the tee and then mark where your ball is and use GPS or Google to give you the number. Relying in anyway on the numbers on the card/tee is woefully inaccurate.

No, I look at it on the tee and it gives distance to green centre. Then stand by my ball and get distance again and then subtract distance two from distance one.

How is that woefully inaccurate?

newport2 · 23-07-2014 4:55pm

rrpc wrote: »

No, I look at it on the tee and it gives distance to green centre. Then stand by my ball and get distance again and then subtract distance two from distance one.

How is that woefully inaccurate?

Because the distance from the tee to the green centre is measured along a specific route, either the shortest possible straight route between the tee and the green or tracking along the centre of the fairway if it's intelligent enough. Either way, unless you hit your drive exactly along the line the app is using, you are going to get a distorted result.

PARlance · 23-07-2014 5:09pm

Edit: meant to quote rrpc

Think about a severe dogleg.
It might be 340 on the card but it might only be 280 or so from the tee to green (as the crow flies).

If I take on that dogleg and land 10 yards short I haven't hit it 330 as your method would conclude. I've hit it 270.

Measuring the way you do is probably doing yourself out of driver distance (unless you're constantly hitting it straight down an agressive line)

Rikand · 23-07-2014 7:24pm

Rikand wrote: »

240 - early 30's

^^ this was yards....

that google ruler thing is the business! I hit the ball a little further than I thought.

Thank you whoever suggested it.

I played in the open day this morning.

Driver (233.4 metres average) / 255 yards average

hole 1 - 220m
hole 3 - 250m
hole 5 - 230m
hole 7 - 243m
hole 8 - 230m
hole 9 - 219m
hole 11 - 239m
hole 12 - 244m
hole 16 - 240m
hole 18 - 219m

5 Wood ( 211 metres Average ) / 230 yards average

hole 4 - 215m
hole 13 - 209m
hole 14 - 201m
hole 15 - 219m

Tom.D.BJJ · 24-07-2014 8:35am

TheDoc wrote: »

Maps Ruler 2 is the one I got. You go via the app itself and its integrated with Google maps.

Played nine holes and used this last night to get some real numbers.

1st: 3 wood to right rough. 190 yards
2nd: Driver to fairway. 224 yards
3rd: 4i to green. 196 yards
4th: Driver to right rough. 248 yards
5th: 3 wood to right rough. 221 yards.
6th: 3 wood to fairway. 242 yards!! (hit the path and sprung forward :P)
7th: 4i to green. 193 yards
8th: Driver to fairway. 240 yards.
9th: 7i to bunker. 155 yards.

Oddly enough my second shot on the par five 2nd with my thee wood was ten yards longer than my drive.

Seeing real numbers is a bit surreal!

rrpc · 24-07-2014 10:27am

PARlance wrote: »

Edit: meant to quote rrpc

Think about a severe dogleg.
It might be 340 on the card but it might only be 280 or so from the tee to green (as the crow flies).

If I take on that dogleg and land 10 yards short I haven't hit it 330 as your method would conclude. I've hit it 270.

Measuring the way you do is probably doing yourself out of driver distance (unless you're constantly hitting it straight down an agressive line)

OK, that's accepted. But give me some credit for actually knowing whether I'm online or offline and being able to compensate. A lot of apps will also give you the option to measure your shot from the tee rather than to the green.

rrpc · 24-07-2014 10:35am

TheDoc wrote: »

Maps Ruler 2 is the one I got. You go via the app itself and its integrated with Google maps.

This is where the ruler is in Google Earth:

Rikand · 24-07-2014 10:51am

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/1628031?hl=en

TheDoc · 24-07-2014 12:15pm

rrpc wrote: »

This is where the ruler is in Google Earth:

That on a desktop pc or mobile app?

I was using it on the course via the mobile. Click a button and it pinpointed my position, hit my shot, clicked button again when I reached ball it marked the distance between the two clicks.

blackwhite · 24-07-2014 12:38pm

Using the google maps tool it looks my 3 wood is going around 210 metres/230 yards on a typical tee shot.

Driver is generally generally between 220m (when sliced) and 240m (when hit straight).

death1234567 · 19-09-2018 1:39pm

Distance Survey by R&A

Driving distance

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