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Originally Posted by nfotiu
You're the second person who's said that in this thread. I don't agree at all. I find some of the new drivers as easy to hit as a hybrid off the tee. I would say that also guess that an average weekend golfer is probably more likely to hit a 19 hybrid about 190-200. That leaves a long second shot on a typical 390-400 yrd par 4. I think most people will score a whole lot better hitting their 130-150 club into a green than hitting a 200 yard club all the time.
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Yeah, but whats the elevation where you live? In Calgary pretty much anyone who's a 20 handicap or better will hit the ball 300 yards or better off the tee if they can figure out how to hit a driver. You do get quite a bit of extra carry in our environment vs a sea level environment. And most novice golfers are playing tee's where the holes are 350 to 375 sort of thing. Even myself as a bad intermediate golfer is better off to shove my driver in the bad and use my 3 iron because it's a lot easier to hit a 3 iron and a 7 iron on a 400 yard hole thats rather narrow, than hit my driver 300 yards with a 50% chance of putting myself in some sort of trouble.
Just like Claeren says course management is a real key for golfers who's game is not that advanced. Figure out the shots you can make, learn how to chip and putt well enough so that from 75 yards in you can always finish up in 3 shots or less and you'll pretty much be a bogey golfer. From there you can figure out how to improve the other shots to get your game to the next level.