Women’s golf club distance chart

The USGA tracked amateur driving distances from 2013 through 2019 and put the average female amateur drive around 148 yards. (USGA 2013–2019 amateur tracking, via Golfing Focus) The jump to 175–177 yards in the 2026 datasets likely reflects both methodological differences (GPS and launch-monitor tracking rather than self-reported) and population-mix differences. The 2026 figures are from active, technology-using golfers and may skew slightly above a true all-population average. The older figure is probably too low for the same reason. What you should take from both: the real number for a typical female amateur is somewhere in the 150–180 yard range, not 230.

Most visitors to this page are looking for a table of women’s amateur distances by club — driver through wedges — broken out by skill level, the way the men’s data exists. That table does not appear here, and the reason is straightforward: we do not have a published, citable source for it.

Shot Scope’s “The Women’s Game, By The Numbers” ebook, published in May 2026, contains detailed club-by-club data from 2,486 female users. It is the best available amateur source. However, as of the date on this page, the club-by-club tables in that ebook are gated behind a download form and have not been independently republished in any citable public URL. We have confirmed the driver figures via Golf Monthly’s coverage. We have not confirmed the iron figures from a publicly citable source.

Putting unconfirmed numbers in a table here and sourcing them to a gated document the reader cannot verify is not something we are willing to do. The internet already has plenty of women’s iron tables built on estimates, extrapolations from men’s data, or numbers no one can trace to a source. This page is not adding another one.

When Shot Scope’s full club-by-club data becomes publicly citable, or another dataset of comparable quality is published, we will add the table. Until then, this section will say plainly what is missing and why.

If you need your iron distances before the published data catches up, the most reliable approach is to measure them directly. A launch monitor and one range session will give you carry distances for every club in the bag — your actual numbers, not a population average that may or may not reflect your swing.

A rougher method, if you already know your driver distance, is to gap down from there. Most amateur women see gaps of roughly 10–15 yards between clubs, narrowing toward the short irons. If you drive 175 yards, a plausible rough sequence might be: 3-wood 155–160, 5-wood 145–150, 7-iron 110–120, pitching wedge 85–95. These are not citable data — they are a gapping framework for planning, not for yardage books. Treat them accordingly, and replace them with measured numbers as soon as you can.

The guide below explains exactly how to measure at home with an affordable launch monitor. It is worth doing once: the difference between managing a round by remembered numbers and managing it by measured ones is usually several strokes.