About the Data
While you should be familiar with the basic launch monitor measurements, we wanted to make you explicitly aware of the measurements we use to determine our final rankings.- Distance (yards) is the average distance (regardless of left/right dispersion) for each iron.
- Radial Distance (distance to the pin) is shown in feet.
- Shot Area is a measure of the dispersion or consistency of each iron. It provides the size (yards squared) of a 90% confidence ellipse (the area in which 90% of shots can expected to fall). A smaller value should be regarded as better.
- Carry Consistency is how we quantify forgiveness. The value presented is the standard deviation of carry distance (regardless of left/right dispersion). Once again, a smaller number is better.
