Let’s start 2025 with the most important question for club golfers.
It’s quite simple: “How far do you hit your 6 iron?”
Answers will vary but believe me, most will be a wild over-estimate. Anyone answering ‘around 190’ deserves an ‘Oh really? Didn’t see your name on the front of your bag.’
It’s what they get from me because unless it is, they almost certainly don’t. Anyone answering ‘around 160’ however is that most elusive of club golfers: the realist, because he or she knows that a 160 carry with a 6 iron is them on a good day maximum, when they’re swinging well and when that back isn’t as tight as it usually is after a week sat at a desk or on the tools.
All of which explains why they’re not always short of the green when the pin’s on the front, or on the front when the pin’s on the back, or worse, in the water short again – unlike the over-optimist who is all three.
If you’re the over-optimistic type, and to be honest you probably are, then I (and every other tour caddie) would advise that a first step to curing this insane condition is to start logging – even taking notice of would help – how far all your irons actually pitch, especially into the greens.
