Yards or Meters used more frequently

colly10

I picked up a GPS watch to try give me a more accurate idea of the distances i'm hitting each club and to help me choose club.

I can set it to yards or meters and whatever way I set it is how i'm going to think of distance from now on. Is yards or meters used more frequently on courses in Ireland?

I know i'm probably way overthinking this

fred funk }{

I'd say most prefer yards over meters.

red ears

Our course has markings in meters, i use meters on my device. But plenty of guys use yards there too.

charlieIRL

The range I use is in meters so that's what I use when I'm on the course.

Mantis Toboggan

Plenty still use yards but I use metres. We're European after all

ronjo

I use metres.

Manach

I would use yards as it what I am most familiar with in social interactions.

dan_ep82

Yards for the ego with me

G1032

Yards. Old school.

gypsy79

Yards for the ego!!

Easy to convert metres up to yards. Add 10%

mjsc1970

Yards. Always.

redzerdrog

Yards aswell

Clareman

Thanks to playing hurling and being a free taker I always use meters, 65m out is 65m no matter what kind of grass you're on

Seve OB

my club is measured in meters. Always has been as long as I can remember.

I've always gushed my distance it yards though for some strange reason.

There really should be a standard though for all courses to be one or the other, with meters being the obvious

Mind you, Samuel Jackson loves his golf, but he hasn't a clue about the metric system

BigChap1759

Yards - Ireland is a little bit of a halfway house between UK and Europe in that quite a few courses use metres(but majority still in yds)

Don't think you'd find a course in the UK using metres or a course on the continent using yds!

C.O.Y.B.I.B

Metres for me but feet on the greens , but younger lads than me still.use yards all the time.

Hoof Hearted2

colly10 wrote: »

I picked up a GPS watch to try give me a more accurate idea of the distances i'm hitting each club and to help me choose club.

I can set it to yards or meters and whatever way I set it is how i'm going to think of distance from now on. Is yards or meters used more frequently on courses in Ireland?

I know i'm probably way overthinking this

One of the main points of having a rangefinder, be it GPS or laser is that the on course measurements become irrelevant because you are using the rangefinder, so yes OP you are over thinking it.

Wichita Lineman

Metres. I've always thought that all courses should be in metres (or all in yards) not a mix like we have now. Having said that it's the main reason I bought a distance measuring device so now it doesn't bother me like it used to.

mike12

All the big links courses are yards for the US tourists so a lot of others follow suit.

Would prefer if all courses were one or other to the front of the green.

Tend to find the courses in meters are to the centre of the green and yards to the front.

Ollieboy

I use Meters due to our course markets been in meters.

I remember reading years ago that the standard for all courses was to be meters but most still appear to use yards.

But maybe using yards would be more exact measurement for GPS devises?

Mantis Toboggan

Ollieboy wrote: »

But maybe using yards would be more exact measurement for GPS devises?

How so?

dwd

Definitely yards and have always found that my gaps between irons to be ~10 yards, i that's how the lifts where chosen roughly

Senna

Yards and afterward I'll order a pint in the bar, not 0.47 litres

Dirty Dingus McGee

Yards.The metric system is the tool of the devil.My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.

Ollieboy

Tyson Fury wrote: »

How so?

well I was kind of taken the piss but if you want to be exact there is 36 inches in a meter and just over 39 in a yard, so when it rounds up to the nearest yard it as slightly over 1.5 inches more on a GPS device in yards to use for rounding so it might be a tiny tiny bit more exact...

CalamariFritti

Senna wrote: »

Yards and afterward I'll order a pint in the bar, not 0.47 litres

0.568 litres.

Metres for me, but I grew up with the metric system.

Seve OB

Ollieboy wrote: »

well I was kind of taken the piss but if you want to be exact there is 36 inches in a meter and just over 39 in a yard, so when it rounds up to the nearest yard it as slightly over 1.5 inches more on a GPS device in yards to use for rounding so it might be a tiny tiny bit more exact...

A meter is a meter.

A yard is a yard.

How can one be more exact than the other?

slave1

Yards, always

Mat the trasher

Ollieboy wrote: »

well I was kind of taken the piss but if you want to be exact there is 36 inches in a meter and just over 39 in a yard, so when it rounds up to the nearest yard it as slightly over 1.5 inches more on a GPS device in yards to use for rounding so it might be a tiny tiny bit more exact...

Or the other way around (1 yard = 36 inches), at least up to now :rolleyes:.

CMOTDibbler

Seve OB wrote: »

A meter is a meter.

A yard is a yard.

How can one be more exact than the other?

If you're measuring to the nearest yard and not using decimals, you can be more accurate than measuring to the nearest metre.

In terms of rounding. half a yard will round up to another 18 inches added. Half a metre will round up almost 20 inches. Or down.

Rikand

Ollieboy wrote: »

well I was kind of taken the piss but if you want to be exact there is 36 inches in a meter and just over 39 in a yard, so when it rounds up to the nearest yard it as slightly over 1.5 inches more on a GPS device in yards to use for rounding so it might be a tiny tiny bit more exact...

I'm an amateur golfer. If I finish within 5-10 yards/metres of the pin in regulation I'm pretty fuppin happy. A few inches either side won't make much difference

Seve OB

Rikand wrote: »

I'm an amateur golfer. If I finish within 5-10 yards/metres of the pin in regulation I'm pretty fuppin happy. A few inches either side won't make much difference

he might be only an amateur.... but he is a damn good amateur! :cool:

BigChap1759

CalamariFritti wrote: »

0.568 litres.

Metres for me, but I grew up with the metric system.

I grew up with the metric system but golf, for me in Scotland, was never metric - not on the course, not in the books, not on the telly...so yards it is for golf

username?!

I've never seen a course in Dublin use meters?

spacecoyote

Grange Castle is metres as far as I remember.

I'm a yards man myself, so when I was a member there, I still had the GPS set to yards rather than metres

frink

My home course is all in Metres. Sprinkler heads are metres to the front of the green.

I've always used Yards and think I've played with only a handful of people who measure in metres. Have a GPS and Rangefinder so rarely use the markers anyway

Seve OB

username?! wrote: »

I've never seen a course in Dublin use meters?

you must not have played a lot of them so

username?!

Seve OB wrote: »

you must not have played a lot of them so

I've played about 7-8 so far so no, not loads but a few. What would the balance be?

I would of thought meters would be quite rare?

Seve OB

50:50 ish I'd say and probably more of the courses nowadays would be in meters