Know your numbers · Practice at home · Build your game
Your 7-iron doesn’t care about averages.
Generic distance charts are averages, and an average is almost useless for one golfer’s game. The numbers that matter are yours. Modern gear means you can finally measure them, practice with them, and build a real setup at home. That’s the whole site.
Where are you today?
Pick the one that sounds like you. Each path leads somewhere useful.
Distance charts by club, skill level, sex, and age — pulled from published launch-monitor data, not guesses.
See the charts →“I want to practice at home”Measure your real distances with a launch monitor, then build a range you can hit in the garage.
Practice at home →“I'm building a sim bay”What a home simulator actually costs, what fits your room, and how to spend the money by the numbers.
Build a sim →Why this site exists
Averages mislead
A chart that says "7-iron: 145 yards" is an average of thousands of golfers. It is not you. Play to it and you fly greens or come up short all day.
Measuring is cheap now
A personal launch monitor used to be a $20,000 range fixture. Today a good one runs $230–$600 and fits in your bag. Your real numbers are a range session away.
Home practice compounds
A net, a mat, and your own numbers turn ten spare minutes into real reps. That is how a busy 18-handicap gets to 12 without living at the course.
Start with the numbers
Here’s the gap the whole site is about. A tour pro, a good amateur, and an average amateur, same three clubs — carry distance, in yards. The chart page below breaks it down by skill level, sex, and age.
| Club | PGA Tour | Good amateur | Average amateur |
|---|---|---|---|
| Driver | 275 | 250 | 220 |
| 7-iron | 172 | 150 | 140 |
| Pitching wedge | 128 | 110 | 100 |
Carry distance, yards. Tour figures TrackMan 2024; amateur figures from the skill-level chart below.
Source: TrackMan Tour averages (2024 season), via ProYardages / Golf Monthly. How we compile these numbers.
The bridge
Measure your real distances at home
Why the chart above isn’t you, and how to get your own numbers with a launch monitor at the range or into a net.
How to measure →The build
What a home sim really costs
The honest budget tiers for a home simulator bay — space, launch monitor, screen, and software — with no upsell.
Plan your setup →Where our numbers come from
Published launch-monitor datasets (TrackMan, Shot Scope, Arccos) and manufacturer specs — never our own invented tests. See our data.
Kept current
Every table carries a source link and a real date. Last updated July 29, 2026.
How we’re funded
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