re: What’s y’all’s longest drive

About a month ago, I was playing the 9th/18th at Pelican Point Lakes, a 500 yard par 5. Tees were probably 490-ish and the pin was in the front, so it was playing 480 actual yardage. It was downwind and I teed the ball way up and put it in the front of my stance for some extra carry distance. As soon as I hit it and before it landed, I told my playing partners that is the longest drive I've ever hit in my life. Sure enough, we got to the ball and I lasered the pin at 132. It was kind of laughable. One of my playing partners hit one of his best ever drives and I was still 40 yards past him.

Wish I could bottle that up and do it every time.

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255yds left into #14 at Bayou Bend. Hard downwind onto a rock hard fairway

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14 at Bayou Bend was my longest ever in competition. That hole was hard as a rock.

3A state championship 2000.

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Lol I'll have to try that line. I have a right miss so I usually just aim it at those bunkers and hope for the best. That's a solid poke you had there goodness

According to the sign, 347 to center green.

Four some on the green putting. Golf carts across the front of the green.

Had my wife tee off from the ladies tee.

She drove back. I got it all ...

Fairway sloping down abut 2-3 degrees the entire length.

We lost sight of the ball after the first bounce ...Every head on the green looks up. I thought, "Hit the carts."

They putted out ...my wife hit again ..then on to the green ...The four were sitting on the side waiting ...

We walked up ...One says "We had to see the guy who hit that." Two feet from the pin ...there sat my ball.

One guy says "Suddenly a ball rolled between us and to the pin ...a little more ...might be a hole in one."

Luckily ..... I putted in for an Eagle ..we were all joking that I might three putt.

I did something like this earlier this year

It was a short par 4 with a fairway bunker and a couple trees in between the tee box and the green so I usually lay up right and chip in.

Rangefinder said 275 to the pin. 4 guys are on the green putting so figured I’m good to go. Was testing out my new 3w and gave it a rip. Felt well struck but looked slightly left. Looking to the left side and there’s a ball about 15 yards left and short of the green. Thought holy shite I smoked it and walk up to see that it’s not my ball. Guys putting tell me it’s over here. They said the shot bounced about a yard short of the green, bounced through the middle of them, missed the pin by about 6 inches, and wound up 3 yards past the green

I profusely apologized, but I figured there was no way I’d hit close to them much less through them with a 3w at 275. They were super nice about it and just told me they were impressed. Went on to have a good chip and sunk a 4ft birdie putt. Finished the round with my lowest score ever so it was a good day.

TL; DR: I hit my 3w about 285 off the tee.

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Like 280. I average 245-250

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About the same for me. Got fitted for a driver a few weeks ago and my best one went 270, most of my shots were in the 250 range. I was a little disappointed lol but I’m not a long hitter (5’9” 155 lbs)

Best club head speed I could muster was about 102

Not sure. I can bomb it out there with the best of them though on my good swings. Was pin high on a 310 yard par 4 on the green less than two weeks ago. Made a 5. Prettt much sums up my golf game. One day I’ll get it all together.

Drive the green on a 320 yd par 4 but about 5-10 yds short of center. Slight dogleg left and very slight uphill. But had a nice little draw working and probably had 40-50 yds of roll. Been about 5-6 years ago tho - not likely to match that again.