Yeah but take today as an example, woods was outdriving shaun macheel by 30 yards if not more and macheel beat him 4&3!

I know a man called colin bradley at my club who drives it about 220-230 yards and he plays to scratch quite often he is about 75 years old.

YOU DO NOT NEED DISTANCE TO PLAY TO SCRATCH! Anyone who has arms and legs and has a decent level of talent and skill can drive it 240 yards with todays technoligy, its just they cant be arsed to practice there short game! The amount of times people say practice there short game is unbelievable but STILL people say I CANT PLAY TO SCRATCH COS I ONLY DRIVE IT 250!

Luke Donald hits his driver 275 and 5 iron about 195 and he doesent just play to scratch he probbaly plays to a +6 handicap!!! A scratch golfer at my club hits his driver around 260 average and hits his 5 iron around 180 and he holds the course record -4!