Ryan Mouque’s yardage lesson gives simulator practice a course-management purpose

Ryan Mouque’s course-management lesson gives simulator golfers a specific job before their next round: measure ordinary club distances and build several wedge yardages. Those sections of his September 27 video turn indoor shot data into decisions about reaching a green.

Mouque recommends hitting 10 to 15 shots with a club and using the average distance. His example is a golfer whose approach came up short because the plan assumed a perfect strike and missed the wind. He also asks golfers to account for the shorter result a mishit can produce.

For wedges, he demonstrates three backswing lengths, using lead-arm position as the reference. Repeating them across four wedges would create 12 measured options inside roughly 120 yards. Those distances must come from the individual golfer’s shots; the example does not assign universal yardages to each motion.

Later, Mouque tells players to check the front and back of a green as well as the flag. That turns one pin distance into a usable landing interval, with the surrounding trouble affecting club choice.

Trackman’s existing Map My Bag documentation shows one way to organize that work indoors. Its club profiles include carry, total distance, dispersion and gapping. The activity can map one club or several, so a golfer can focus on a new wedge without rebuilding the entire bag.

The published guide recommends six shots as a starting point and allows up to 30 per club. It keeps a rolling average of 30 shots as new attempts replace older ones. Players can also view dispersion by carry or total distance and revisit a club to add shots.

The two sources use different sample sizes for their respective exercises. Neither provides a promise that one short session will establish permanent yardages. The useful record includes the individual shots behind the average and the practice conditions under which they were hit.

A clear first session is to map a full-swing club, then record the wedge motions needed for shorter approaches. Before choosing a club on a virtual hole, compare its carry range with the front, flag and back distances. That is an application of the lesson, not a claim that the video’s indoor drill reproduces wind, rough or sloping lies.