How Far Should You Hit Your 7 Iron?
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 489 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The 7-iron, in the middle of most player's bags, is often a benchmark club for distance. How far should you hit it? In this episode, Mark tackles this question with Lou and Greg. There are a number of ways to think about answering this question, from knowing what's typical at different indexes to knowing how to judge between your typical shot and your outliers. Do you want to be pin high more often? This discussion will help.
Mark's video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSFTp6c4B-8
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| 0:00.0 | How far should you hit your seven iron? I've done a YouTube video on this. Anyone who wants to watch that head over to my YouTube channel, maybe we'll pop a link in the show notes. Lou and Greg in the house. Obviously it's an open-ended question and we'll hopefully go through some of the points about how far you should hit the seven iron. I've got some data based on Lou's done the data. I've just got it. I did a video on it, so I asked him for it. |
| 0:24.6 | Arcos, about how far you should hit the 7-iron. I've got some data-based or blue's done the data. |
| 0:21.8 | I've just got it. |
| 0:22.5 | I did a video on it, so I asked them for it. |
| 0:24.6 | Arcos data based on handicap. |
| 0:27.2 | So indexes, how far different indexes hit their 7-iron. |
| 0:32.1 | And anyone listening, you could use this as some kind of benchmark. |
| 0:35.5 | Don't remember in all these numbers that we're going to call out, you could easily be a scratch handicap of hitting it way longer than this or way shorter. Like there's always going to be outliers and they're the ones always put their hands up and say, this is silly because I hit my seven down this far and I play off this handicap. That's fine. But for lots of golfers who are thinking, like, do I hit my clubs far enough? |
| 0:56.1 | Am I in the right distance? |
| 0:57.4 | It might give you some benchmarks to work off and give you some ideas of where they should go. |
| 1:02.2 | So I'm just going to go with average yards hit per index to start us off. |
| 1:07.3 | And I'll do it as a little game for you, Greg, because I think Lou knows the answers. |
| 1:16.3 | If we start with a scratch handicapper, how far do you think they hit on average their seven iron? A hundred and 160 yards. Really good guess. So Greg guess is 160 yards |
| 1:23.1 | and the answer on average is 158 and the medium is 160 yards. |
| 1:27.6 | Boom. |
| 1:29.9 | How far do you hit your seven iron? |
| 1:32.0 | Greg? |
| 1:37.2 | 175 to 180-ish depending on conditions. |
| 1:37.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:40.7 | So again, that shows as well. |
| 1:47.9 | That kind of follows some of the pattern because as we go on, if we go to a 10 index, so Scratch was 160, 10 index is there, |
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