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 — and modern gear finally lets you measure them, practice with them, and build a real setup at home.
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 carry-accurate one runs $500–$700 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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