# Pitching wedge distance, 5 handicap

A 5 handicap carries a pitching wedge about 120 yards on the model, at 74 mph of club head speed, and totals 123 yards on a fairway landing. That is 6 yards behind the scratch figure of 127 yards and 16 yards behind the tour average of 136 yards.

## Key figures

- A 5 handicap carries a pitching wedge about 120 yards on the model, at 74 mph, and totals 123 yards.
- That is 6 yards behind scratch, worth about 0.02 of a stroke per approach on the published fairway table.

## Scope

- The carry is the published tour pitching wedge anchor scaled to the club head speed the handicap model gives a 5 handicap; the app replaces it with your own launch monitor carries.

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