60 years old 4 hcp ...LW 105/110, SW 115/120, GW 125/130, PW 135/140 and so on up to 4i at 200, but Im 6'2" and really fit, lean and very flexible, I think that makes a huge diff for me.
Heard about these parameters, but this content helps understand what they mean and what to change for which desired result. Thank you for the concise review of these numbers. At 78 years of age and a 20 handicap I'm shorter in all clubs in your initial table - more like the 25 handicap column. But I rarely take a divot out of the ground - except for my gap and sand wedges. So I'm not reducing dynamic loft to much less than the natural loft of each club. But I don't really have a problem with distance, I just take one more club than the younger players.
Love the visuals Coach! Knowing how my wrist is working is something I’ve been working on so I can get a handle of that face! Always glad for these vids you put out!
Great video, Im working on this right now actually. Ive finally got my 7 iron up to 165-170. Im 53 years old and weigh 135lbs in a rain storm. If I can hit it that far then anyone can. I think Im dragging the handle through impact a little too much with my longer clubs though. Im getting there, these videos help a lot. Thanks
@@deadgum11 Can I tell you, my friend, that the thing that got me out of the driver doldrums (used to only carry about 215-220) has been watching a client of mine, an amateur that has competed in US national long drive comps? I used to use drivers with 12° or even 14° of loft to get the peak ball height I needed, but there was so much spin that the ball was backing up on the fairway on landing; working with long-drive mentality, I've since switched to a 9° but am now adding dynamic loft (i.e. "hitting up on ball") and with club speed still sub-95mph, just optimizing loft, launch and spin now gets me that 235-245 carry with lots of run. I hope this info piece can help you out. Cheers! remember, you're never that far.
@@jaxongolf Thanks for the insight, im glad you're hitting it well. I've filmed myself hitting driver into a net at home, and can see that I'm casting it and losing nearly all of my lag just after left arm parallel in the downswing. Something is fundamentally wrong with my swing that is making me cast in order to hit the ball, from that point I'm dragging the handle through instead of stopping my hands and whipping the clubhead. I know what I'm doing wrong, I'm just struggling to get the feels of how to fix it😅
@@deadgum11 It sounds too simple to even work, but I'm going to guess your right hand's muscle memory is causing an early ulnar deviation and elbow firing away from the body... and the easiest way to begin getting this to feel proper is to mentally deactivate your right hand focus on your left hand's role in controlling the whole thing: a simple poem (completely just a "feel" versus "real") is, "Let the Left Lead, Long and Languidly". Try it sometime when you've got an open range & bucket of balls, even try one-handed, left-handed driver swings, accepting that it'll be awkward AF & that a drill doesn't need to be a "good shot", but rather, only needs to be the desired result. It has been working with all of my students, and my favorite discussion is neuroplasticity & how to overcome our "natural, bad moves". Cheers, mate, and thank you for engaging in proper conversation. I appreciate your feedback a lot. I'm Tyler from Somerville, MA and my business is Jaxon Golf.
@@deadgum11On filming your golf swing; digital cameras can't capture the golf club accurately. The shaft will appear to bend drastically showing the club head getting to ball ahead of the hands. This is a camera issue, shafts bend isn't that drastic.
Thank you, ,yes I'm trying to change my wrist condition right in transition, it's helping my swing plane get a little flatter/ shallower, but the key is proper body rotation with proper wrist condition, to be honest I'm finding if I get my wrist more into flexion, more forearm suppernation the body automatically responds to what path your club and arms are taking,im really learning that i can't create a position, let the force's take it course and let it happen naturally.when I become mechanical nothing feels or works out properly. I hope some of that makes sense, I'm sure it does, your a great coach.
I am a 12 to 15 handicap at 51 yrs old and hitting the distances from your P-avg chart of the 0 hcp. I must be needing to make the putts on the first stroke instead of the occasional 2 and 3 putt to get to the 0 hcp... Great explanation of the wrist movement that should be achieved... Not new but have not been focused on that. I will now though, thanks Coach Lockey
You’re welcome. If you’re hitting lower handicap distances you need to think about all the other aspects that might be letting you down not to be a scratch. Accuracy, approach play, short game, putting. You don’t need to hole every putt that’s for sure. Start collecting stats 👍
@@ncphenom2309 You are correct sir, chipping practice net is on it's way, for real. lol I really do hit those distances and that is what I have been working on. Now it is time to work on the chipping part of the game. Pitching is ok but short chips I tend to rush instead of calmly swing as a putt type stroke. Getting there though piece by piece... Thanks for your accurate insight...
Currently working in Norway and only 100m of driving range open!! So hit my PW 100 yds and lazy 9i 110yds. Hitting better than ever but my oh my do I hit high!! It's ballistic off the face, great for stopping the ball but I know I'm losing distance. Maybe the dasterdly dynamic loft is my downfall........another thing to think about whilst I swing away!! Great vid matey!
Used to hit further in college. Now I’ve had 2 kids, golf less, and hitting it not as far. Numbers seem realistic though. Used to be between 5-10 HC (closer to 10). Now I’m more in the 10-15 HC range, but I’m getting there. I’ve always had good distance on my wedges and low irons. Distance off the tee is not proportional to my shorter clubs. A lot of it is confidence to smack it with a shorter club since I’m a shorter guy (5’8”).
Unless you track your shots with a garmin or shotscope your average driving distance is probably less than you think 5 handicap my average driver distance is 238 yards my 7 iron is 157 yards My longest drive was 315 My playing average which deletes the very bad shots are 261 yards and 170 yards
This is a great explanation. I swing 7 iron at 90+ mph and only carry it 160. Went on quad and I’m delivering 30+ deg of loft which I know is too high. Any drills you recommend??
Got my handicap this week and i'm starting out as a 23.2, my irons distance always seem to be stronger than friends I go with but I can't seem to transition the same power into my drive, like my 5 wood goes roughly the same distance at around 220. Driver : 225 Yards 4 Hybrid :195 9 iron : 145 7 iron : 170 60 degree : 75
1:00 - OR, do what I did and share this video with your buddies who hit it 30 yards past you and play off 13, and you're a 4 HCP. 😄 7-iron: 145 carry and driver 230 carry.
Just watched this video. I’m launching my 7i at 22 degrees with an average flat carry of 183 yards. What would you say is the ideal launch angle? (Though I understand everyone will be slightly different). I’d be intrigued to see a table of launch angles through the bag, like the one you created of yardages, is that something you could do?
I fluctuate between 10 and 13, and my distances are good 20-30 yards shorter than the ones shown. Perhaps playing from the senior tees just lets me get my driver within mid/short Iron range, and misses are close enough to get up and down a good number of times.
I am 33 hcp. My numbers are between 15hcp and 20hcp, but length is not everything :-D consistency and accuracy is probably more important than this. It's worse to hit 250yards to the out of bounds rather than 180yards on a fairway...
The wrist info, though interesting is probably the hardest thing to change during swing consistently. Hack motion is information and not a direct cure for any swing faults.
Distance isn’t the game. Knowing your distances is the game. 9 iron 100, 9 iron 160. Doesn’t matter. The only thing that really matters is that you KNOW YOUR DISTANCES.
Nope scoring or coming in closest to par is literally the game of golf. More distance makes it easier to get on greens in reg and get closer. If you’re hitting a 100 yd 9 iron you are going to need more shots to get to the green vs a 160 9 iron. And you will be farther from the hole needing more putts on average. That’s the whole point of that graph.
I need to work on this because I have and in-to-out swing but leave the face open to path. So I have a slice now and the side spin has the ball going 90 degrees when it lands going even further off target.
I'm a 10 handicap, my distances are all in / around the 0 - 5 handicap range but have always been a longer hitter --- for me it's around and on the greens where I lose all the shots.
But what about irons and the category. Like some super game improvement irons are like 4-5 degrees stronger than players irons. I play t100s and my 7iron is around 150-154, but when I played my last set of game improvement irons, I was probably 10-15 yards longer, but the lofts were also 3-4 degrees stronger.
Handicap: 10.7 (bit out dated maybe) 7i @ 31°: 165-170yards carry Driver @ 9°: 260-265yards carry Been trying to work on wrist angles at top of back swing from a lesson I had recently
Driver carry 240 ....7 iron carry 150 .....pw 110 ......handicap 5.3 ....47 years old .....but I do play ping s55s with a more traditional loft ....and I usually do not play from the pro/ back tees....usually the next ones up ( white tees ) at most courses I play .....
0.4 handicap - I’ll hit just short of those 5 handicap distances to 4 iron, 7 iron down I’m somewhere between 0-5 handicap. But since using ShotScope I realise I hit no where near as far as I once thought. But as with everything, it’s subjective. Out in Portugal my longest drive was 348, at home it’s about 285 down wind 🤔
I’m one of them guys that feels like my driver should go much farther than it does. I hit my i230 7 iron at around 32 or 33 degrees of loft about 160-165 and I hit it farther than a lot of my mates who use a 7 iron in their g430 set with about 28 to 29 degrees of loft from 150 but they hit their driver 60 past me. Tell me how that makes any sense? Lol
7.7hcp I'd say my distances are all a little closer to a 12.5hcp looking at that chart( I'm assuming they're carry distances.). But then I do turn 60 in just over a month, ugh!
HC is 28 using the whole bag. Last 3 9 holes I've played have been played with no woods at all cos I currently just can't hit them at all. I was always inconsistent but I can barely get the ball off the tee box at the moment. Iv always been decent with 3 and 5 wood off the fairway or light rough but these too have gone to rat shit lol. Back to my last 3 nine hole rounds. No woods and teeing off with a 6 iron and working more on accuracy and course management iv shot 41, 44 and today a 42. Stick woods in my bag and I'm shooting as low as 90 but also as high as 120. Take the woods out and I'm suddenly a sub 15 handicap based off those last 3 9 holes rounds lol. Currently I'm very confused. My distances using the chart suggests currently around a 15 handicap. I'm tempted to put a 4, 5 and driving iron in the bag and ditch the woods. I have a bad back, pushing 60 and feel like I'm beyond help with my woods.
You should be hitting your clubs as far as you hit them. Long hitter, short hitter, all different swings - doesn’t matter. I've played all over the world, and not one of the course's scorecards have any spaces on them except "Name" and "Score". The game of golf doesn’t care how. It just cares how many.
Sadly, I think this tells me loud and clear what I've long feared... that my putting must really suck. My yardages for nearly all my clubs line up pretty closely to the 10 HC column, 7i-160, Driver257, yet I'm playing at 15 right now.
@@CoachLockey I've got Arccos to track stats and according to its strokes gained stats, the issue is clear... compared to 8 HC, SG stats are Driving -2, Approach, -2.3, short game +1.8, and putting, -7.2. The putting stat is actually better than it was! My previous 10 rounds, putting was -9.5, but my short game improvement has been saving my putting stats.
Same here. I'm a senior who only drives the ball about 210-230 but playing from forward tees allows me to hit some pretty decent approaches to the point where my hcp fluctuates between 10 and 12. My 7 Iron is only 135, and my PW tops out at 100.
those numbers looked really high imho. I doubt a 15 hcp hits irons longer than professional ladies. edit. or are those full distances, not carry? A 7-iron can easily roll-out even 10 meters if you dont spin it well.
@@CoachLockey Thank you.....Absolutely agree. And at one point 20 years ago I was approaching 10. Working on getting back to that this year. 2 core issues for me 1) Blow up holes from horrific tee shots 2) chipping. The first one is my current bugaboo. Working to deliver the club consistently
I hope all the data for club distance wasn't collected on a mat, indoors. No wind, no fat shots, thin shots. All are not correct if indoors as it would be outside in different playing conditions 😁
I get around 175/180 yards carry with 7 iron....and about 220 yards carry with Driver. Tried it all, watched all the videos, but i cannot hit driver upwards at all. Golf is great, ha
So what you're telling me is that I hit as far as a 5 handicap but I just need to dial in my contact and dispersion to actually become a 5 handicap lol
Amateurs need to start to understand that the number on the club is arbitrary. Lofts and forgiveness are all different. A golf club is just a basic tool like a hammer or a screwdriver. At the end of the day, it’s basically just a stick with a lump of metal on the end. Don’t be fooled by the manufacturers’ claims of all the ‘technology’ in these clubs. Good equipment does not make a good player.
