Yards or Metres??

ziggy

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Sandwich

Yards please. Being a judgement thing Im just too used t yards to change. Annoying playing a course that uses meters.

OldGoat

Meters please. Same reasons as above, just the other side of the coin.

Woodgate

Yards for me aswell.

Just so used to it but it doesn't bother me wherever I paly as it's simple to convert. Would be lovely to have it unified one way of the other.

PhilipMarlowe

I always 'think' in terms of yards. I would prefer all courses to have the same distance markers, probably 'yards to the centre of the green' because after all, if you hit it to the middle, you're never too far away and there would be less calculating to be done too Distance to the front is ok.
I learned my golf with yards to the middle.

irishtoffee

They redesigned our course in wexford and changed the distance markers to metres a bloody nightmare.Why couldn't they just stick to yards.

Mister Sifter

Yards for me... although i've slowly got used to converting.

I'd never really experienced courses in metres only until i moved here. Back home it's generally always yards (with metres listed on the card also).

I know there's the argument that there's no yard without a metre, but i'd much prefer it if everything was just in yards.

milltown

My clubbages (huh?) are all in yards so that would be my first preference. It doesn't bother me too much if a course is measured in metres provided I remember that it is!. We travel around a lot of courses and there's nothing worse than catching a shot absolutely, perfectly, as you intended it, then watching it land short because the white stake you selected your club by is 15 yards further back than you thought.

I think the GUI should make a call on this and dictate that courses under it's auspices should all be measured in the same units.

MisterAnarchy

Yards is all I use.
Metres are alien to golf,they have no place there.
Inches , Feet and Yards,thats it.

mickyt

I would prefer Yards myself. My mate told me a quick way to work out roughly the yards if its in metres is to take the metres ie 320. then take the first two numbers off and add it to the total to get the total yards. so 320 metres would be 352 yards. and officially its 349. so its not a bad way to gage it

Mister Sifter

mickyt wrote: »

I would prefer Yards myself. My mate told me a quick way to work out roughly the yards if its in metres is to take the metres ie 320. then take the first two numbers off and add it to the total to get the total yards. so 320 metres would be 352 yards. and officially its 349. so its not a bad way to gage it

yeah, add 10% on to the number of metres and you have the yardage.

Par72

I prefer yards myself. Ideally all courses would be in one or the other, it's just confusing the way there is a mix of both.

Blunder

I think in yards anyway but I'm not overly bothered. It would be nice if it was eiter one or the other. I think Yards are easier as the length of a pace if you are walking off a distance is closer to a yard than a metre. I'd rather uniformity on whether the distances are to the front of the green or the centre. Another thing I'd like to see at clubs is something similar to what they do at Limerick County. They have 3 colours of flags which tell you if the hole is at the front, middle or back of the green. This would be a big help in getting the shot right.

Mister Sifter

Blunder wrote: »

I think in yards anyway but I'm not overly bothered. It would be nice if it was eiter one or the other. I think Yards are easier as the length of a pace if you are walking off a distance is closer to a yard than a metre. I'd rather uniformity on whether the distances are to the front of the green or the centre. Another thing I'd like to see at clubs is something similar to what they do at Limerick County. They have 3 colours of flags which tell you if the hole is at the front, middle or back of the green. This would be a big help in getting the shot right.

I like that too. I've seen some clubs use a smaller flag or ball on the pin below the main flag which indicates where the hole is on the green. Very handy!

frink

I think in Yards myself but no big deal if its metres just add the 10% as mentioned earlier.

On another note, I also prefere the distances from the fairways to the front rather to the middle as is the case in some courses. Was playing Mount Juliet there a few weeks back and on the card they give the exact measurements to where the pins are on the green but the distances where to the centre which made it that bit harder to work out the distances cos the greens are huge there so club selection is important

Paulusmaximus

I'd have to say i work off metres but if i'm pacing it out i'll pace out yards... its a bit weird. the main factor when working out yardages is flag position. in some courses there can be a 3 club difference from front position to back position. this is the crucial thing as i'd much prefer a 30 foot chip than a 20 yard putt!

PhilipMarlowe

They use the small flag below the main flag in our course but the trouble is that it is not always correct (it can be moved too easily). Kilkenny uses the 3 different coloured flags to indicate front middle and back and it's a pretty neat system I have to say.
I know metres are european and all but like anarchy says, there'd be no harm in sticking to tradition here and just going with yards only, with everything standardised across the country.

copacetic

yards for me also, as noted above I don't really mind, just wish all the courses
would stick to the same way of measuring. In general most course I play seem to use yards so it's what I stick to.

Blunder

Plus a 290 yard drive sounds better than a 260 metre drive!!:D

Zzippy

Metres for me, a 6 iron is bang on 150m and work from there, easy to convert from yards if the course I'm playing uses yards, long as I remember!

eunified61

ziggy wrote: »

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Just wish all courses would use one or other

stockdam

Yards every time for me.....I hate metres (just because I've always used yards).

Oh and distances to the centre of the green. But it would be also nice to get the depth of the green too and the icing on the cake would be to the flag (but that changes so too difficult?)

Blunder

Its not that difficult to do all you need is an extra one of each colour flag that the greenkeeper keeps in his cart as he goes around cutting the holes and changes it according to where he cuts it. He doesnt need an extra flag stick just the actual flag.

stringy

fellas keep up with the times, we're metric here!

I use metres cos the course is in metres. 150m marker to centre is 7 iron and then i work forward or back, taking the 100m(3/4 PW) and 200m(3i/5w) marker into consideration. Don't mind switching to yards though, easy maths

You yards guys are showing your age

Blunder

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NuFlyer

Metres for me. Same as above, easy 7 iron from 150m, 3/4 wedge from 100m. easy to adjust up and down, or convert if course is in yards.
I think people like yards cos it sounds longer..150m or 165 yards???:D

WHIP IT!

Graeme1982 wrote: »

I like that too. I've seen some clubs use a smaller flag or ball on the pin below the main flag which indicates where the hole is on the green. Very handy!

It's a handy idea but some clubs forget to adjust the little flags when they move holes (or they get shoved up/down the flagstick during course of play) and they end up being misleading.

I'm lucky if I hit 4/5 greens a round so when you play to the front cos that's where the flag says it is and it ends up being in the middle/back - it's soooooo annoying!

K4t

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Yards is all I use.
Metres are alien to golf,they have no place there.
Inches , Feet and Yards,thats it.

In a nutshell

Yards all the way. My course is done in metres but everyone just converts!!!!

Plus, if you're measuring a shot etc. you look like an awful fool trying to measure out a metre stride :pac: