Michigan Golf Journal March 2021

Michigan Golf Journal The Distance Debate estimate, you can have the TrackMan radar units at Miles of Golf measure your drives. They are accurate to within 1 foot for every 100 yards. How “Driver x 28” Was Created: We need to know only two things to create an ideal course length. (1) We need to know how far you hit each club in your bag and (2) we need to define what clubs you hit into each hole on the mythical ideal course. Both of these are a lot easier than you would expect. No. 1 Determine How Far You Hit All Your Clubs. By knowing how far you hit your driver, we have good data to predict how far you will hit all the clubs in your bag. Obviously, this will not be exact for each golfer, but it will be close. The hardest part of this is to have a good (and realistic) estimate of your total driver distance for a well struck driver. No. 2 Designing an Enjoyable Golf Course. My definition of a course that is fun to play will have a combination of short, medium, and long holes. For example, since the average course has four par 3 holes, one should be easy, two moderately difficult, and one hard. There are generally four par 5s, so the same logic applies to par 5s. There are usually 10 par 4s, so I am saying there are three easy, four average, and three hard par 4s. This course should make you hit a lot of different clubs, which is usually a definition of a good golf course. No. 3 Compute the Distance of the Ideal Course. I am arbitrarily defining short, medium and long holes. For example, my definition of a medium length par five is a driver, #3 fairway club, and pitching wedge. I am saying a medium length par 4 is a driver and 6 iron. We need to do this for each hole; namely decide what approach shots we want to hit into each category of hole. For more details on why “Drive x 28” works, and charts showing a comparison to PGA Tour players, go to this link: https://www.milesofgolf. com/which-tees-should-you-play/ MGJ