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Olympic #3 distance ??

• pillsy 489 Posts

  Mon, May 14 2012 8:18 AM

  bearclaw27:

  YankeeJim:

  bearclaw27:

   The scorecard says 248 yards and  its down 62 ft.

  248 -21=227. Play to this yardage, more times than not a 3i with R11s. Wind in your face will help knock the 3W down but any helping wind will carry the iron, even cross winds.

  tx YJ...question...on downhill shots, I usually subtract 1 yard of distance for every 4 feet downhill ...your math implies a 1/3 ratio...?

  uphill, i usually add 1 yard for every 3 feet of up elevation...

   

  i use the same 3' elevation = +/- 1 yard of distance that YJ is suggesting.

• StrayedFairway 379 Posts

  Mon, May 14 2012 11:20 AM

  I was sure that a 3 iron was just right until This happened.

  Not really sure what happened any ideas?

   

  -Stray

• DannyPhan 1,013 Posts

  Mon, May 14 2012 1:42 PM

  Almost the same thing happened to me once but it hit the sand and stopped.

  I call it the John Daly effect.

  Danny

• zagraniczniak 1,984 Posts

  Tue, May 15 2012 4:51 AM

  StrayedFairway:

  Not really sure what happened any ideas?

  -Stray

  Well, the Burner 3-iron (rated 220 yards) should come in pin-high, but the R11 you were using is rated 225 yards, which gets you near the bunker, and you had a tailwind, which gets you over, especially using long-distance Nike balls. The rest of the damage was from the bad luck of hitting the downsloping rough behind the trap.