golf: how long are you?

[golfpuck 0]

how far is your drive?

you wouldn't be beleive me, if i told you.

so lets do this...

longest you ever hit a ball...

your "average"?

we wont you use what the PGA defines as driving average, but if you had 10 drives, how far would your good ones go on average?

[Sniper407 0]

my hypothesis for hockey players maybe being able to drive further is that we use the same muscles to take slapshots as we do to drive golf balls and those muscles are stronger becasue we use them more often? just a thought...

[Chadd 916]

385, downhill with a tailwind. I also drove a 427 yard par 4, but that was in drought conditions. No way I can do things like that on a normal day. On average I'm probably down to 285-290, I've lost a bunch of yards over the last couple of years as I haven't been playing as much. There's a par 280 yard par 4 back home that requires a 265 yard carry slightly into the wind. If I'm hitting it well, or there is no headwind, I go for it. Otherwise I lay up and hit an 8 iron and a wedge. Best distance on a normal hole was 310 uphill on the 18th hole, hit a 5 iron to the back of the green and missed the eagle putt on a 485 yard par 5. That was with a wood driver as well.

Judging by the usual claims of 90+mph slappers by 12 year olds, I'm sure even my extremely abnormal distances will be rapidly surpassed.

[Dangles 0]

325. Predator Ridge; Vernon BC. Osprey # 8. The hole is straight downhill and your ball will roll for 150 yards at least. My average is like 200-210 though on your average straight-away par 4.

[ambro 0]

325 was my longest without wind, but the 3 shots that followed totaled for less than 100 yards, so the drive was useless.

[Z-Unit14 0]

BC high school provs last year I came 3rd place in the long drive at 336 yds, but at Sun Rivers in Kamloops on hole 10 which is 546 yds I drove it to the 200 yd marker so around 346-350 yds. I did my average distance 3 times this year and it was 283, 281, and 289. I dont have any problem with distance just keeping it straight.

[Perry94 0]

6,120.......inches

see...everything looks so much better when you change units

of course, I don't golf, but hey, whatever

[J-Shera 0]

Ever since my car acciedent with a semi my distance has gone down, i lost alot of flexibility in my arm and my swing became shorter, im about average in my group, 260-270, thats if its straight of course, and recently, thats a challenge. lol

[MDE3 0]

In my 20's and 30's with the old wooden drivers and the balls of that time, I routinely hit the ball 300 yards +...At that time my best was when I drove greens of 375, and 380 yards, with average conditions. My carry at that time was 265 - 300 yards.

Now it is 245 - 265(assuming I hit it solid).

I have had a hole in one on a 304 yard par 4 (witnessed)

I still routinely play a 465 yard "par 5" (short course) with a drive and 8 or 9 iron though.

Shortest second iron on a goodly par 5...drive and 9 iron on a 535 yard par five ..The hole was flat off the tee for about 280 yards, to a long swale (down hill) but back uphill about 25 feet to the green on that hole. I caught the down side of the swale.

The new equipment has helped offset my physical deficiencies due to age and infirmity.

But I was watching Shell's Wonderfull World of Golf last year, and it was a match in and around 1957 between Tony Lima, and another golfer whose name I do not recall....Johanson maybe?...The other Pro was a body builder...During this match Lima drove consistantly between 265 and 310 yards, and this other Pro between 285 and 355 yards....not bad for the "old equipment"....Might have been "hardpan", but some of those long drives were into the rough too. I thought it was interesting...The course didn't look too burnt out in the old video, but the color was so weak it was hard to tell for sure.

What discouraged me the most, was playing with a 16 year old kid, while I was still poking the ball pretty long in my thirties, who would fly it by my ball at about 310....

[QandA 0]

my hypothesis for hockey players maybe being able to drive further is that we use the same muscles to take slapshots as we do to drive <a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=22&k=golf%20balls" onmouseover="window.status='golf balls'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">golf balls</a> and those muscles are stronger becasue we use them more often? just a thought...

Yes, but I shoot the opposite way in golf than I do hockey.

[tokes 0]

my hypothesis for hockey players maybe being able to drive further is that we use the same muscles to take slapshots as we do to drive <a  style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=22&k=golf%20balls" onmouseover="window.status='golf balls'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">golf balls</a> and those muscles are stronger becasue we use them more often? just a thought...

Yes, but I shoot the opposite way in golf than I do hockey.

I know a lot of people that play hockey and golf, and I've never known anyone like that before :o

On a great connection i'll hit it a bit over 300, in a normal round of 18 I might have 3 drives like that. On a normal good shot I usually lay it 250-275. I'm not the best driver, but I'm a much better player than my friends who all just work on their drives and can pound it 290-300 with a fair bit of regularity. Then they whip out their irons and duff it, while I just poke her onto the green :D

[hitz14 0]

my average is about 220-230, im all about the irons.

[gee2626 0]

my longest drive was around 300+ yards... i usually average 210-230 drives though

[Dan_The_Man_16 0]

Longest around 320, average at close to 240.

[ambro 0]

my hypothesis for hockey players maybe being able to drive further is that we use the same muscles to take slapshots as we do to drive <a  style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=22&k=golf%20balls" onmouseover="window.status='golf balls'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">golf balls</a> and those muscles are stronger becasue we use them more often? just a thought...

Yes, but I shoot the opposite way in golf than I do hockey.

I know a lot of people that play hockey and golf, and I've never known anyone like that before :o

I'm the same way. LH Hockey, RH Golf.

[LkptTiger 1]

I usually hit my driver about 265 or so...Not too deep, and I usually end up putting a bit too much draw on it and the ball will end up off the left hand side of the fairway.

BUT, I hit my 5-wood much farther (figure that one out...) with much better control. I'd say I average about 280 with the fiver (off the tee - only about 220 off the fairway), but once or twice a round I smoke it to 320 or 330...Unless I'm at the driving range, the driver usually stays in the bag.

[Eazy_b97 1]

I stink. I've played 1 real course and been to the range about a dozen times. Longest was around 250, but that was just a good connection. I'm a LH hocckey player and a RH golfer. I find my slapshot technique got in my way during golf.

[Gee12 0]

Hockey shot: left

Golf shot: right

Farthest ever driven: (downhill with a crosswind) aoubt 335

AVerage drive: 280-285

[all-star 0]

average 275. longest, 320.

[asdfa 0]

okay, i don't really play golf, but last time i was playing minigolf at canada's wonderland, i got bored so i hit the ball, it went off a boulder, bounced off a curb, off a lamppost and into a creek, about 20 metres away :P

[chris17 0]

I know three people who play hockey left handed and then play golf right. It appears taht the people on here are the same way. Does anybody play hockey right and then golf left?

Chris

[MDE3 0]

I remember one time playing in California..I ended up in a threesome with Fred Williamson, at that time an actor, but maybe better known by his alias "the Hammer"..when he played for KC Chiefs. He hit the ball fairly solidly and was obvously used to intimidating other players with his strength. I was in my golfing prime, and knocked a couple of tee shots a little past him. At one point he said to me: "so you think you hit the ball a long way?" and then challenged me to a "long drive competition" for a $100.00 bucks...

I said "in the fairway"..he said "no that's just for pu$$ies"...just whoever hits it the longest.

As it happened, the first hole of the contest, was beside a six lane freeway which ran parellel to the hole and was on a long gentle grade falling away from the tee that appeared to run downhill for at least a mile. When I hooked it over the fence and down the freeway and saw my ball bounding high over cars and following the centerline of the freway, I busted out laughing so hard I was almost in tears...and so did he...we got along fine after that. We both figured that drive could easily have been over 1000 yards... :P

[vdubbin 0]

i am up around 300yrds on average. longest would be about 350yrds. i think hockey players can hit it further if they can use the right tech. with their swing. took me a while to learn how to hit it with out a slice.

[JR Boucicaut 3803]

I remember one time playing in California..I ended up in a threesome with Fred Williamson, at that time an actor, but maybe better known by his alias "the Hammer"..when he played for KC Chiefs. He hit the ball fairly solidly and was obvously used to intimidating other players with his strength. I was in my golfing prime, and knocked a couple of tee shots a little past him. At one point he said to me: "so you think you hit the ball a long way?" and then challenged me to a "long drive competition" for a $100.00 bucks...

I said "in the fairway"..he said "no that's just for pu$$ies"...just whoever hits it the longest.

  As it happened, the first hole of the contest, was beside a six lane freeway which ran parellel to the hole and was on a long gentle grade falling away from the tee that appeared to run downhill for at least a mile. When I hooked it over the fence and down the freeway and saw my ball bounding high over cars and following the centerline of the freway, I busted out laughing so hard I was almost in tears...and so did he...we got along fine after that. We both figured that drive could easily have been over 1000 yards... :P

Damn...the Hammer is a bad dude...lol...blaxpoitation movies rocked...

[Chadd 916]

I find I get too much leg drive when I'm playing a lot of hockey. I actually do much better at golf when I'm not skating very often as my form is much better.