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Golf clubs

Choosing the correct golf clubs will enhance your golf game and allows you to maximize your potential on the course. Woods are used for long-distance shots on the fairway. Irons can be used to tee off on shorter holes, on fairways and in sand traps. Putters are used mainly on the green.

Know your clubs. Loft, or the angle between the club face and the vertical plane, will determine how high and how far your shots will go. The majority of woods and irons are labeled with a number. Higher numbers indicate shorter shafts and higher lofts.
Rules state you can have no more than 14 clubs on the course. A full set includes a driver, two fairway woods, irons 3 through 9, a pitching wedge, a sand wedge, a putter and one more club of a player's choice. Hybrid clubs are becoming more and more popular.

Woods are long-distance clubs with a large head and longer shafts. Woods are actually mostly made of other materials like steel or titanium. Irons have a flat angled face and shorter shafts. The highest-loft irons are called wedges and are used to get a ball onto the green or out of the sand. A 9-iron is typically about a 42-degree loft and used for a variety of shorter distance shots.

Hybrids are a cross between woods and irons and are generally easier to hit than an iron of the same number. Hybrids are often called “Rescues” because it can help you get out of tough situations or placements.

A putter's loft doesn't exceed ten degrees and the club is generally used to roll the ball on the green toward the cup.