Listening to the 'Today' Sports News this morning at 7.25am, the commentator (recorded on Sunday) was heard in hushed tones to say: "A nine-footer is all Patrick McGinlay needs to clinch the Ryder Cup for Europe".

Over the past few days I've heard other snippets of golf commentary all referring to putts being 'a few inches short' or 'running two feet past the hole' etc. I don't suppose many metric-educated golfing youngsters stopped to ask their Dads "What's a nine-footer' in metric?"

I wondered if our metric friends had a metric equivalent for a 'nine-footer', or for that matter, an 'eight-footer', 'seven-footer', 'six-footer'. etc.?


Tony Bennett

Although I recognise that golf on the continent is done in metres (and presumably cm, for putts) - I was wondering if they report international golf in yards (on TV for example).

Anyone know?

They use cm to measure their putts, and their putts' homophone.

Ah! They use centimetres for putts. So the equivalent of a 'nine-footer' in metric would be a 'two-hundred-and seventy-four-er'

Tony Bennett

Maybe they use Decimetres, and call the decimetre, the 'dee-em', or, peraps, the 'deemer'.

And a 25 deemer wins the day.




And that's the best I can metric can do...