On Par 4's it costing me 0.6 shots when I miss the FIR. On Par 5's it's 0.48. I'm only hitting 27.3% of Fairways in regulation…
So: that means missing FIR is costing me 4.4 shots per round on par 4's and 1.75 shots per round on par 5's. ~ 6.2 shots per round for missing fairways in regulation.
i.e. if I can get to 50% (as opposed to 27%) of FIR, I can cut roughly 3 shots off my score. At a 15 HCP, its not huge but still meaningful.
I thought this was pretty interesting…anyone else know what is costing you shots? (queue the sarcasm)
by Narrow_Walrus5754
2 Comments
You’re missing the lead story. 19% hazard off the tee!?
This isn’t about fairway vs rough. Hitting the ball in PLAY will gain you a ton of strokes each round.
Hit a club that won’t go far enough to reach the hazard; or one that carries the hazard; or aim in the tree line on the opposite side of the hazard.
Driver distance. For me(and most amateurs)fairways hit is misleading. This is my first year really playing more than the once a month I did the first two years and my drive distance really improved, I started around 215-220 and by the end of summer I was averaging around 250.
One downside of this was that my FH dropped since the off target balls were *further* off target since they went further, but thinking about my dispersion cone improved this. My scores also dropped because hitting your second shot from 215 out in the fairway is harder than hitting it from 180 in a little bit of rough.
Driver distance ends up being everything for me. Holes where I drive it 250 and stay in some semblance of play is usually a par or bogey, drive it 225 or less is a double minimum.