# A 170 yard drive

A drive that totals 170 yards on a fairway landing carries about 157 yards and takes 69 mph of club head speed on the published tour table, with 96 mph of ball speed. That speed is about a 39 handicap on the handicap model and beyond the oldest band on the age model. On a 400 yard par 4 it leaves 230 yards, from where the fairway table needs 3.370 strokes to hole out.

## Key figures

- A 170 yard total drive carries about 157 yards and takes 69 mph of club head speed on the published tour table.
- On a 400 yard par 4 a 170 yard drive leaves 230 yards, worth 3.370 strokes from the fairway; ten more yards are worth about 0.04 of a stroke per approach.

## Scope

- The speed is the published tour driver anchor inverted for 170 yards of total distance with a modeled 8 percent roll; the tee shot rows use the site’s dispersion model with a spread scaled to the distance.

Full page: https://pinflag.io/driving-distance/170-yards