re: Week 42 of 52 of 2013 Golf Thread "GBGT" Edition

If you can hit a long iron as well as a short iron, then yeah adding ~900 yards isn't a big deal. But for the average golfer shooting in the 90s-100s, the difference between an PW-8I into a green is vastly different than gripping and ripping a 5I or 4I. Much more chance for a long iron to slice 50 yards to the right or chunking it 30 yards down the fairway.

If you think you can get it around the green from the 7600 tees the same as you can from 6700 tees, then you could probably expect very little difference in scores as well. So yeah, you might play the same time from each tees, but the average golfer...hell no.

We are talking about average golfers, who, in my experience, tend to lean far more towards the slow side than the fast side, taking more time from further back.