[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by MrGolf

I use them personally because they don't break and are easy to find. I do respectively disagree with your distance theory. 10 yards closer to the pin normally translates to hitting one less club. Normally the shorter the club the more control you should have. Hitting a nine iron vs an eight normally translates to better control and accuracy. I brought a member of the senior tour out to the Palmer course a few months back and he fired a 61. Probably because he hit 3 woods off most tees and was hitting 8,9 and wedges into most greens. Just sayin

You just disagreed with your own argument. If what you say is true, then if he had hit driver off the tees, he would have shot a better round.

Certainly there is an advantage to hitting it further, but I doubt that you'd see much, if any difference in your scores if you hit a nine iron as opposed to an eight iron into greens. There's certainly a difference between hitting a two iron and a wedge, but driving it ten yards further won't make much, if any difference at all.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr

There's a sucker born every minute and I believe that golfer suckers are born ever few seconds.

A tee will have absolutely no effect on how far the ball goes. Even if you hit the ball five yards further do you think that you'd score any better? Try it some time. Take every drive you hit and move it five (or ten even) yards further along it's line of flight and play from there. See if your score is better then your average.

Want to play better golf and have more fun. Go practice your short game.

I have the misfortune of being the opposite--the closer I get, the less accuracy I have. The standing joke in my regular foursome in NY was that I was far more accurate with a 4 iron from 220 yds. than with a 5 yd. chip! Sad, but basically true

[MrGolf]

Not to belabor the point but him hitting three wood off of most of the par threes from the blues was to put him basically at the same yardage out as he would have been from the back tees using his driver. As you see on television many of these guys will use alternate clubs off the tee depending on trouble at a certain distance and also the key metric is what distance do they want to approach the pin from. I think the other reason was that he wanted to play from the same tee I was playing given that this was more about getting caught up than trying to see how low he could go. Tells you how good these folks are when they can shoot that low without really caring about score.

[fred53]

There are many here who couldn't replicate their distance shot for shot on a driving range much less on the course where the result at least partially counts. Debating whether to use this tee or that teeing ground or this club or that club is akin to most of us discussing quantum physics and event horizons.

Then comparing any of us to the pros is like comparing apples and oranges.

Bottom line...hit a club you can hit relatively straight and in the air. I've seen more people hit driver that should be teeing off with a 3 or 5 wood/metal as they're lucky to get as much roll with the driver as they would a 3/5 wood in the air. Now factor in water hazards and you see way to many folks looking for golf balls instead of playing. COMMON SENSE doesn't usually trump ego, but it can...whereas continually hitting a driver when you usually top it is just foolish. Don't base your ability to hit a particular club just because you've hit it properly a few times in your life.