YankeeJim:
You're missing the intent, Chris. There is nothing negative about wanting to know how you validated your results. For starters, you can't find nonexistent winds-they're always there in some fashion and do make a difference. How did you allow for this? Where did you do your testing? On all the courses, BPB back 9 fairways, Kia front 9? Or is this a compilation of your thousands of rounds?
Do not read anything into this other than me wanting to know how you arrived at these numbers. Test results are only as good as the conditions you make them in and the way this game plays this is a very large part of your chart. I just wanted to know how you took all of that into account.
Obvioulsy if you get deviation effected rounds, your clubs wil come up long or short any way, but the guide helps a lot for example cabo #17 which is 183 yards, so you could either hit your 175 yard iron a touch under full power or underhit your 190 iron with full backspin) What has helped me is that i know exactly on the meter how much to deduct per 5 yards. The extra yardages you get and the back spin table i use on every hole on the game, obviously some holes are going to be different elevation wise and i add or subtract yardages to take this into consideration, and some holes like St Andrews #15 have a lot of roll on the green and although you might have 160 yard approach, i would still under hit the shot to factor in the roll you get. But its got to the stage now i've played the holes so many times i know what holes to lay off the power a touch or to give a bit more than needed (R. St. G #5 for example) but i will always use my table(in my head) as a rough guide to knowing what shot to use and where
The guide above was for no wind, you have to factor in the wind yourself, this is what i use and it seems pretty bang on most of the time, for headwind & tailwind.
for Pw 120 or 125 yards add/subtract 5 yards per 10 mph wind,(If wind is say 17 mph headwind i would add 7 yards)
for 130 to 145 irons add/subtract 6 yards per 10 mph wind
for 150 to 175 add/subtract 7 yards per 10 mph wind
175 to 190 add/subtract 8 yards per 10 mph wind
190 to 210 add/subtract 10 yards per 10 mph wind
210 to 225 add/subtract 11 or 12 yards per 10 mph wind
This is just a rough guide which i stick to all the time, and usually land pretty close most of the time on (good rounds within 2 yards)
If you have say 20 mph south westerly, and a 200 yard approach, what i usually do is work out the wind as if it was headwind, so i would add extra 20 yards to shot, but because it is SW and not headwind, i would either divide the 20 yards extra i've added by half, or add a couple of yards extra onto the 10 yards so it would be 13 or 14 yards extra. depending on what side of south weserly the wind was (was it more southerly or more westerly) Hope i'm not too confusing.lol