If, for instance, you fly your 7-iron 140 yards, the best course length for you is 5,900-6,100 yards. If your 7-iron only goes 125, you should move up and play from 5,400-5,600 yards. And so on.

People will say – no matter whether they hit their 7-iron 100 yards or 180 yards – the most enjoyable holes are medium par fours where they hit driver, then 7-iron.” At one club in Florida, according ...

Shot Scope has provided the very latest total distance yardages by golf handicap category; are you above or below the average ...

Among other things, the Mizuno JPX925 Hot Metal Pro (a Players Distance iron) and the Mizuno Pro 243 (a Players iron) feature signficantly different 7-iron lofts. That raises a curiosity, given ...

Specifically, the average 7-iron loft across a range of game-improvement irons was more than four degrees stronger than the average 7-iron loft across a similar range of muscleback blade irons.

“The spin rates, relative to my 6-iron and my 8-iron, were lower, so it was going too far,” Spieth explained. “I was trying to figure out why, if it was something in the makeup of the iron.