[Sam]

What I mean is that you shouldn't be as concerned with distance at this point. FOR SURE you want to be practicing driving. That said, it does you no good at all to throw 300 feet if you throw 300 feet in the wrong direction.

You should be trying to group your drives into a smaller and smaller area right now. Some of your discs will be understable and some will be overstable so you will have to throw them differently to reach your targeted area. You should be trying to group them together as much as possible when you practice so that you are practicing control before you are practicing power and distance. There is plenty of time to work on distance but you (and all new golfers) should be concerned with being able to throw your discs WHERE you want to throw them more than HOW FAR you want to throw them.

In regards to 80% power, it all depends on the throw. I throw 100% sometimes and 50% sometimes. Depends on what I am trying to do. For control, I would say 80% is probably a good number.