# A 290 yard drive

A drive that totals 290 yards on a fairway landing carries about 269 yards and takes 111 mph of club head speed on the published tour table, with 163 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 110 yards, from where the fairway table needs 2.825 strokes to hole out.

## Key figures

- A 290 yard total drive carries about 269 yards and takes 111 mph of club head speed on the published tour table.
- On a 400 yard par 4 a 290 yard drive leaves 110 yards, worth 2.825 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 290 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/290-yards