[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.