SMS - How Long Is a 270 Driver?

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Sports, Education, Golf

4.7 • 267 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the "Saturday Morning Golf Stat" from the Hack it Out Golf Podcast. There probably isn't an "expectations management" issue that is more obvious than driving distance. In this episode, Lou asks Greg and Mark about an amateur male golfer with a median driving distance around 270: where does he rank compared to his peers? Turns out, he's way better than most—which means most of us aren't hitting it as far as we claim, and need a more realistic understanding of what a good drive is for us.

Each of these will be a mini-episode (10-15 minutes long) about an interesting golf stat. We will discuss what you can learn, and most importantly, how you can apply this on the golf course to lower your scores and lower your handicap.

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0:00.0	let's do distance today in the Saturday stat we've got a question around hitting bombs
0:06.1	hitting long balls this should really relate to Greg I don't really understand
0:10.9	any of it as a short hitter Greg is the bomber among us that Greg is the seventh longest
0:16.0	hitter on the champions in the world yeah and the longest Greg in the world and the and the
0:20.6	longest Greg in the world. And the longest Greg in the world. Yeah, absolutely. So this is right up is ball buck. I can't remember who won last week. I think Greg won. I can. It was me. You did win. Yeah, well done, Greg. I remember it actually being a good episode. I think it was really, it was a full. I thought it was fantastic episode. Greg, how far do you
0:39.6	have to hit it on the Champions Tour to be ranked seventh in distance? Like 245? Yeah,
0:44.4	blue throwing darts this morning. Carry on with your numbers, little numbers, boy, hurry up, let's
0:49.8	go. All right, here we go. Today's question is about how long you hit driver off the tee.
0:56.9	So if you have a median distance with driver of 267 yards, what is your percentile rank compared
1:06.3	to all male amateurs?
1:07.9	This is only for male amateurs.
1:09.5	So median distance with driver of 267,
1:12.5	what percentile rank are you in? So how much longer are you than the rest of the population?
1:18.2	And then the second part of this question is if you have a median distance of 284 yards,
1:25.2	what is your percentile rank? Make sense? Any questions? Got it. No, I'm figuring I'm there. I'm ready. Mark, you get to go first, I guess. Why? Why? I don't. What are you talking about? All right. Greg gets to go first. Then Greg. Greg for 267. We literally just talked about it. Yes. And we're like our math guy. That's how much Gingas about us, Greg. I was taking digs. I was taking digs at Mark. I was giving Greg an opportunity to just say that he won. 267. 267. 267. 267. 75th. 75th, okay.
2:01.3	You are pretty high, you are very good at hitting a golf ball.
2:04.5	Okay, I'm 85th.
2:07.3	You might be right, yeah.
2:09.3	All right, and then 284 yards, Mark, you get to go?
2:14.3	I've got 97.
2:15.7	I reckon you're there.
2:18.2	Okay, Greg? I've got 97. I reckon you're there. Okay.
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