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Golf Monthly
Golf Monthly
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Barry Plummer

Revealed... The Distance You Need To Hit The Golf Ball To Outdrive 99.7% Of Male Amateurs

Man driving a golf ball and a bar chart representing driving distance increasing.

As golfers, we find ourselves in the constant pursuit of increased distance off the tee. You might have spent time having lessons on how to create the optimal launch angle for your driver, or perhaps your athletic posture and powerful swing gives you the natural ability to step up and crush it. Either way, we can't help but compare ourselves to others.

There are few better feelings than being the longest driver in your social group, but are you in the top 1% for distance off the tee? Thanks to the latest Arccos data, we can go even deeper than that and reveal how far you need to drive the golf ball in order to be longer than 99.7% of male amateurs...

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