# A 300 yard drive

A drive that totals 300 yards on a fairway landing carries about 278 yards and takes 114 mph of club head speed on the published tour table, with 169 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 100 yards, from where the fairway table needs 2.800 strokes to hole out.

## Key figures

- A 300 yard total drive carries about 278 yards and takes 114 mph of club head speed on the published tour table.
- On a 400 yard par 4 a 300 yard drive leaves 100 yards, worth 2.800 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 300 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/300-yards