Free Golf Club Distance Worksheet: Measured Carry & Pocket Card

A useful golf distance chart starts with the shots you hit. Use this free worksheet to record your measured carry distances, compare the gaps between clubs and make a pocket card for your next round.

Download the free distance worksheet (PDF)

Two A4 pages. No signup required. Print extra copies for more clubs or partial wedge swings.

What is in the worksheet?

  • A raw shot log: club name, five measured carries, median, low-to-high range and gap to the club above.
  • Session details: date, ball, location or measuring device, units, conditions and lie.
  • A pocket carry card: copy your numbers onto two panels to cut out or fold.
  • A follow-up note: identify clubs with overlapping distances, a shot to practise and a date to recheck.

How to measure your carry distances

Carry is the distance to the ball’s first landing point. Total distance also includes bounce and roll. Keep those measurements separate. A launch monitor or an observed landing point can help you record carry; a ball’s final position on its own does not tell you where it first landed.

  1. Record the conditions. Choose yards or metres and stick to that unit. Note the ball, wind, temperature and whether you are hitting from a mat or grass. Ask the operator whether the device normalises its results.
  2. Warm up and use your normal swing. Record five measured carries for each club as a starting sample. Keep normal misses in the record. Flag unusual shots in the notes rather than quietly removing them.
  3. Find the median and the range. Sort the five carries from shortest to longest: the middle number is the median. Write the shortest and longest in the low-high column. That observed range does not guarantee where your next shot will land.
  4. Compare neighbouring clubs. Order clubs from longest to shortest. Subtract the next club’s median from the median above it. A small or large gap is a prompt to recheck your measurements or speak to a coach.
  5. Repeat before relying on the numbers. Five shots are only a first sample. Check several sessions and allow for the difference between range balls or indoor results and your course ball outdoors.

Use the card with today’s conditions

Your recorded carry is a starting point for a decision. Check the lie, wind, temperature, elevation, landing area and your usual miss. Bounce and roll will change with the surface. Where a hazard requires a forced carry, a short session’s median and range are not a safety margin; choose a more comfortable route if the carry is uncertain.

For ways to organise course notes, read our guide to golf yardage books. If you are comparing measuring equipment, start with launch monitors under £500.

Prefer to make your own chart?

You can reproduce the worksheet in a notebook or spreadsheet. Use these columns, leaving distances blank until you measure them:

  • Club or named partial swing
  • Carry 1, carry 2, carry 3, carry 4 and carry 5
  • Median carry
  • Shortest and longest carry in the sample
  • Gap from the previous club’s median

Add your name, date, units, ball, conditions and measuring method above the table. Copy the median and observed range to a small card you can read on the course.

For coaches, clubs and golf societies

You may print and share this original worksheet for personal use and coaching. Please keep the source address on copies. You are welcome to link to this page so golfers can find the current version; no purchase or reciprocal link is required.

Have a correction or a suggestion for making the worksheet more useful? Email team@bestgolfclubs.co.uk.

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