Golf club distance chart

Total distance in yards (where the ball stopped), male amateurs, Shot Scope’s Performance Average, which drops the 10% of extreme shots good and bad. Not carry.

Two things stand out. The 7-iron gap between a scratch golfer and a 25 handicap is 46 yards, and most of it is strike, not speed. And the wedges barely move with handicap: short game distance is control, which is where strokes are saved.

TrackMan’s 2023 averages (carry in yards, club speed in mph). They are the anchor of the chart above: the model scales these shares to your driver speed.

The LPGA column is the honest benchmark for most men who play on weekends: 96 mph with the driver is a common club golfer’s speed, and LPGA players turn it into 223 yards of carry because they hit the centre of the face. That is the lesson, not the number.

Driver carry per mph of club speed is read between the two tour anchors (96 mph → 223 yards, 115 mph → 282 yards) and clamped at the edges; every other club is its average share of the driver’s carry in the two tour tables (a 7-iron is about 63% of a driver). The wedges below the pitching wedge keep the iron ladder’s step. It assumes a well-struck shot at sea level; it is a starting chart to be corrected with your own shots, not a verdict.

Write your carry for every club on the range, not your best one but the one you hit six times out of ten, and play to that. If your gaps are uneven, look at loft before swing. If you want distance, the first yard comes from the centre of the face: the free swing analyzer finds the one thing costing you strike. On WhatsApp Morris reads your Garmin distances and tells you which club to hit from your own numbers. More on how far you should hit your 7-iron.