8-iron — 2026-05-25

Toptracer Range | 75°F, Wind right-to-left 7 mph

Avg Carry

142 yd

Avg Total

145 yd

Ball Speed

106 mph

Lateral Disp

2.5%

Cluster Disp

8.3%

Consistency

40%

Shots

Overhead Dispersion

Flight Path — Average Flight

Carry: 142 yd

Total: 145 yd

Ball Speed: 106 mph

Launch: 22°

Height: 28 yd

Landing: 47°

All Shots

#	Carry	Total	Speed	Launch	Height	Landing	Hang	Curve	Offline
1	133	135	102	23°	27	47°	5.4s	R 1	L 4
2	146	148	104	26°	33	49°	5.8s	R 6	R 1
3	142	144	106	23°	30	49°	5.7s	R 13	R 1
4	147	151	109	18°	26	46°	5.6s	R 7	L 7
5	141	145	109	18°	25	46°	5.5s	R 14	R 5

Insights

Fatigue Trend

First 2 avg speed103 mph

Last 3 avg speed108 mph

First 2 avg carry139.5 yd

Last 3 avg carry143.3 yd

Speed delta: +5 mph | Carry delta: +3.8 yd

Best 3 vs All 5

Best 3

All 5

Avg Carry

145 yd

141.8 yd

Avg Total

147.7 yd

144.6 yd

Ball Speed

106.3 mph

106 mph

Avg Offline

3 yd

3.6 yd

Your best 3 shots show what your swing produces with clean contact — use these as your true yardage numbers.

Strike Quality (split at 106 mph)

Clean (3)

Off (2)

Avg Speed

108 mph

103 mph

Avg Carry

143.3 yd

139.5 yd

Carry Std Dev

2.6 yd

6.5 yd

Avg |Offline|

4.3 yd

2.5 yd

Offline Std Dev

5 yd

2.5 yd

Stopping Power + Launch

Carry vs Total Gap

Avg rollout2.8 yd

Rollout std dev1 yd

Avg landing angle47.4°

Landing angle 45°+ means the ball is coming in steep — good stopping power on greens.

Launch Angle Consistency

Avg launch21.6°

Std dev3.1°

Range18° — 26°

Recap

8-iron baseline: 142 carry, 145 total, 106 mph -- back to a normal 8-iron number

Your 8-iron averaged 142 yards of carry with 106 mph ball speed and 21 degree launch. Across five shots, four of them carried 141-147 yards (a 6-yard window) with the fifth (shot 1) at 133 -- the typical first-ball warmup. The 14-yard gap up from 9-iron (129 to 142) is exactly what you want to see between consecutive irons. The 47 degree landing angle keeps the ball stopping quickly.

Ball speed jumped to 109 mph on shots 4 and 5 -- the engine was building

Ball speeds ran 102, 104, 106, 109, 109. The trajectory mirrors the 9-iron: slower warmup ball, then climbing speed as you settled in. Shots 4 and 5 at 109 mph are real numbers for a 75-degree day -- you were swinging with intent on the back half of the set. The carry didn't fully reflect it (147 and 141) because shot 5 launched at 18 degrees with only 25 yards of height, suggesting a slightly thinner strike.

Shot 3 was the cleanest face contact: 142 carry, 106 mph, 30 yards of height

Shot 3 produced a textbook 8-iron flight: 23 degree launch, 30 yards of height, 49 degree landing -- maximum spin, maximum stopping power. The R13 curve is the largest of the five shots, but the offline finish was only R1 (basically center). That tells you the swing path was straight and the curve was face-induced rather than path-induced -- a slight push fade off a square path.

Offline range: L7 to R5 -- contained dispersion, no big misses

Across five shots, your widest offline finish was L7 (shot 4) and the right side topped out at R5 (shot 5). That's a 12-yard total spread on offline -- very playable. No shot left the fairway. The 8-iron is acting like a control club today, which is what you'd expect from a club this length when you're swinging with intent.

Launch lower than 9-iron as expected -- 21 vs 25 degrees

The 8-iron averaged 21 degree launch vs the 9-iron's 25 -- a 4-degree drop in line with the loft difference between the two clubs. Shots 4 and 5 were even lower at 18 degrees, possibly a hair thin. If ball-back is starting to show effect, it would be on these lower-launching shots. Worth watching whether the lower trajectory holds in the next session or whether it was strike-quality variance.

Next session priorities for 8-iron

1. 5 shots is a small sample -- carry it forward to next session to confirm 142 as the working baseline. 2. The 14-yard gap up from 9-iron is exactly what you want -- gapping is healthy. 3. Shots 4 and 5 launched 18 degrees -- if that pattern holds, the ball-back move is doing what it's supposed to do at this club. 4. Dispersion is so tight there's nothing to fix -- this is a green-light club at the right distance.