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Meters Or Yards

• fairground11 1,211 Posts

  Tue, Jan 8 2013 7:26 AM

  the thing is a 319 meter drive doesnt look nearly as impressive as a 350 yard drive

   

• puttersman 240 Posts

  Tue, Jan 8 2013 7:49 AM

  Golf is played in yards and inches all over the world and that is how it should stay. Just saying.

• alosso 21,094 Posts

  Tue, Jan 8 2013 8:42 AM

  LOL -  I've played golf "in yards" (measurement) but not in inches, except for that famous quote from Bobby Jones ;)

  And I respectfully disagree to "all over the world" (everywhere) as this certainly does not apply to continental Europe.

• alosso 21,094 Posts

  Tue, Jan 8 2013 8:57 AM

  unclenewy:

  On the golf course, though, everything is still imperial, so I work out my 7 iron, say, to about 150-160yd.

  Yep, I've seen nothing but yards on the British courses!

  Quite confusing in the first place, when the distance markers are set to 135 and 81 m (150 / 90 yds) and to the center of the green, while the strokesaver counts from the front of the green. I remember a 7i of a puzzled German ending way behind the 1st green at Hawkstone Park ;)