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Originally Posted by Mortal1
is just carry through the air. Roll is not included. I can't not count the amount of times someone in the group skulls a club and sees it go way long or way short of the target. If too far they think "oh, too much club". Then one shot ends up way short of the target and they think not enough club. In either case they have no idea how far any particular club hits the ball.
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Probably not in this case. If the USGA meant "carry", they likely would have used that word. They're generally about the most pedantic people in the world.
Besides, Driver distance calculations, as well as Driver design and swing metrics, are usually optimized to induce roll.
Using that calculation with Drive "carry" only, decent players would be shooting in the mid-60's.