Knowing how far you have to the flag is a crucial aspect of playing golf, but depending on where in the world you find yourself, it can be measured in either yards of metres.
While yards is the most common measurement we see on the PGA Tour and other televised professional golf tournaments, the sport does not universally use either the metric or imperial systems exclusively.
The United States of America, which has over 16,000 courses, exclusively uses yards to measure its golf courses
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It is the same in Canada and Mexico, meaning the entire of North America uses the imperial system for the sport.
That’s the same in the United Kingdom and Ireland, whose golfers can very easily go and play in the US with no need to work out any yards to metres conversions.
Like a number of countries, the UK uses an array of different metric and imperial systems in everyday life, like measuring vehicle fuel in litres but then using a miles per gallon conversion to identify fuel efficiency. It’s a little confusing but thankfully we’ve all become very accustomed to yards and feet when at the golf course.
The UK is an outlier in terms of Europe, though, as the rest of the continent, like Germany, France, Spain and Scandinavia, plays their golf in metres.
That’s why you’ll find many DP World Tour pros speaking of how far they hit their clubs in metres and not…
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