What Length Golf Course Should You Play Subject To How Far You Hit The Golf Ball? #golfers
What length of golf course should you be playing subject to how far you hit the ball off the tea? Now, if you hit the ball 175 yards off the tea, this is the length of course recommended for you. If you hit the ball 200 y off the tea, try this length, 225 y, this is the length golf course you should be playing. 250 yards off the tea, this one. And if you’re one of the longer hitters out there, longer than most people watching this video, believe it or not, even though everyone on social media hits it 300 yards plus, if you hit the ball 275 yards on average off the tea, this is the length of golf course suggested you should be playing to make the game engaging, fun, and to your ability. Most people I know play off TE’s that are far too far back. Ego doesn’t allow them to push forwards. or becomes frustrating. Which one of those T’s and distances are you falling into? And does that sound about right? Or do these numbers surprise you and shock you, which they do for most people?
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Thanks Mark. This was helpful. Brian
I'm buggered then 😂
Sounds right. Our local fun course is 5500 and we hit 225-250. It's technically short but it's a crafty place where driver distance doesn't mean you'll crush it.
Makes sense. I read somewhere that you should take your average driving distance and multiply it by 28 which gives you the maximum length of course you should play. (No idea why 28 is a magic number but it always seems to work out.) It’s a good recommendation for which tees you should be playing from.. especially if it’s a course you’re not familiar with.
Oh the conversations in the redneck places we play are fun. You can’t play the “senior” tees, Joe is 68 and still hits from the “men’s” tees. It’s back tees, middle tee, standard tee, forward tee, and beginner tee. Half the year driver is 209 avg for me….forward or standard depending on the course. Half the year driver is 236 – Standard or middle depending on the course. And sometimes it’s a mix in a single round. Love hearing my buddies grumble about that during social non competitive rounds
I agree entirely, I have tried to get our senior section to face up to these facts but there are to many egos blocking it. My biggest bugbear is if you play a golf course too long for you it feed into the no 1 problem the game faces- the time it takes to get round. I tell them they are not slow players, they just have to play so many shots…. get on a course length suitable for your distance PLEASEEEEE
I also think courses should only be 15 holes, especially if you're an old geezer.
Make sense.
I hit it about 400 yards. My fairway finder goes about tree fiddy. – Internet bragger/ Loch Ness monster.
100%. I play 6000 yard courses and broken 80 many times. Whites at 6200 kill me….
Yes – one of the last comments- Appropriate T – not course….
Yep totally agree…I find the tees that play 5800 to 6000 makes the game fun.
Lots of comments slamming older players. I have been behind way more younger players that think they are Rory and play tee boxes way too long and are very very slow…cause they spend forever finding their inevitable lost ball
Well said Mark.
How do you get better, then? 🤔
I could get down to 11 or 12 on a local 5700 yd course. But put me on another local course at 6800 and I'd look an idiot off such a low handicap.
I like to take my handicap off the harder course so I look good on the shorter strip
So, it’s about distance, not score?
I play the course (twice a week) that' costs me 300 quid a year for membership and is a 4 minute drive down the road lol. They only have one tee for men and one for women. But ideally you are totally correct.
Ok.. As a relative beginner (played Three or four times a year, mostly in scrambles, started playing regularly and practicing two years ago.
I'm currently playing off a 14 handicap.
I'm sure this says a lot about where the gaps in my skill levels are relative to different disciplines of the golf game. I will generally score in the middle to upper '80s from 6300 yards at a fairly difficult course. I play with some older friends from their tees at 5100 yards and generally only save about two strokes by moving up.
This is a strange game, and I can't get enough of it.
It makes me laugh that one of the things people love about golf is that they can play the same courses they see in tv. They then have to hit driver 3w wedge on every par 4….nothing.like what they see on the TV 😂
Great advice, but I use a system the Golfweek Course Architecture Editor (now retired) Bradley S. Klein wrote about 20+ years ago called “Play to Your Birdie Yardage.” You keep track of the hole yardage of every birdie you have during the year (which is actually enjoyable). At the end of the year you find the average yardage of a birdie on a Par 3, Par 4 and Par 5. Multiply the average Par 3 and Par 4 yardages by 4, and the average Par 5 birdie by 10 (you’ll just move the decimal point 🤣 ). Add those three totals together and you’ll get the total yardage that you’ll have more fun playing. As a senior, my yearly totals end up 5300-5500, which is perfect for me.
Great advice but our club only has comps from the back tees
And why slow play is everywhere, dumbasses never move up and they never hit the ball out of their own shadow !! been this way for 30 years now !!!