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Originally Posted by gales0678
avg driving distance is irrelavant ----he missess/missed too many fairways for it to be any kind of accurate nummer , when he missess the ball stops in the rough immediatley with no roll , gotta look at fred funk who hits 80% of the fairways to see avg driving distance (also i think it's only done on 1 or 2 holes on each nine and those holes could be 3 woods or 2 irons off the tee for woods)
go back and watch some of the old events from the 90's he was driving the ball over 330 yrds back then when he was straight and his ball landed in the fairway and ran another 35 yrds because of the firm fairways. when he hit it into the rough the ball stops worse than a 2/5 fav does in the stretch at beualh park
i will say equipment has helped me hit the ball at least 25-30 yrds further with the driver ---- antirtust can attest that i'm not on hgh but rather byk's barbecue my waistline has expaneded from 34 to 38 over the last 15 yrs , i a m not as strong as i was in my late 20's , yet i hit the driver 25 yrds further when i hit it in the fairway
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You are right that they only use around 2 holes or so to measure the drving distance. But that still adds up to a ton of drives over the year. I don't think they count drives that are in the rough. And I think they try to only measure on long holes where most guys are using driver.
Anyway, I would be curious of GPK's opinion on whether he thinks Tiger was longer when he was 20 years old.