# A 280 yard drive

A drive that totals 280 yards on a fairway landing carries about 259 yards and takes 107 mph of club head speed on the published tour table, with 157 mph of ball speed. That speed is faster than the model’s scratch golfer, into plus handicap territory and above the peak of the age model. On a 400 yard par 4 it leaves 120 yards, from where the fairway table needs 2.850 strokes to hole out.

## Key figures

- A 280 yard total drive carries about 259 yards and takes 107 mph of club head speed on the published tour table.
- On a 400 yard par 4 a 280 yard drive leaves 120 yards, worth 2.850 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 280 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/280-yards