Golf club distance calculator
Estimate how far each club in your bag carries and rolls. Enter your driver club head speed (or ball speed if a launch monitor gave you one), pick how you usually strike it, and get a yardage chart for every club. Add your course's altitude and the temperature to see how the air changes it.
Average driver club head speed
- PGA Tour average: about 114 mph
- Scratch golfer: about 105 mph
- LPGA Tour average: about 95 mph
- 10 handicap: about 95 mph
- Average male amateur: about 93 mph
- Bogey golfer: about 90 mph
- Senior male: about 85 mph
- Average female amateur: about 78 mph
Your club distances
| Club | Carry | Total | Gap |
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Ranges are yards, and widen as strikes get less consistent. Gap is the difference in carry from the club above. Red gaps are under 7 yards: those two clubs overlap, so you may not need both in the bag.
How we estimate it
Ball speed is club head speed times a smash factor that depends on how well you strike it (about 1.48 for a very good player, 1.38 for an inconsistent one). Driver carry comes from ball speed, reduced a little for the launch and spin of less centred strikes, and every other club is a share of the driver carry matching the averages measured by launch monitors on tour, where the proportions are close for men and women. Roll depends on the club and the trajectory: a driver rolls about 10% of its carry on a mid flight.
Altitude and temperature use the same air density model as our course forecasts: thinner air adds about 1.7% of carry per 1,000 feet, and a warm day adds a few yards more. These are estimates for a typical golfer; a fitting session on a launch monitor measures your own numbers.