How to calculate the actual distance flown by a golf ball? I am interested in finding out what the actual distance is flown by a golf ball on a drive.  You can assume no wind, 10 degree launch angle, goes straight down the middle of the fairway (no draw, no slice...) and no erratic backspin on the ball (so it wont "balloon" but will have stable flight).  You can also assume that the ball flies 200 yards of linear distance (relative to the ground).  So basically I would like to know how much "extra" distance does the ball fly relative to the 200 yards of linear distance?  I was thinking somewhere on the order of 15% more (30 yards more) but that is just a guess.
The answer need not be exact.
Also I am not sure what tag I should use so if someone has a better one go ahead and change it or just tell me and I will change it.

This is a non mathematical answer but still mildly interesting and worth mentioning.  For someone that really wanted to know this but didn't have the math skills to solve it (like me), I suppose someone could record the flight of the ball on their smartphone such that the entire ballflight could be recorded.  Then they would take a piece of string and trace the ballflight on the smartphone screen.  Then they would simply measure the length of the string relative to the length of the flat path (along the ground).  Solutions like this is why I didn't major in math in college.  I would always want to do things in a simpler (non mathematical) way.
