Types of Clubs
As you go through the set, from the 3-iron to the pitching wedge, each iron has a little more loft than the previous, and a little shorter shaft length than the previous, so each club (going from 3-iron to PW) hits the golf ball a little less distance than the previous.
My 16* Cobra Baffler DWS hybrid carries within about 5 yards of my Titleist 3 wood, and it is a little easier to hit and probably slightly more accurate-when I'm not hooking/overdrawing it. Which I have been lately.
Driver club heads today are typically made from a metal alloy or other advanced materials and are also larger than their persimmon wood counterparts of yesteryear. At GlobalGolf, we offer both new and used golf drivers from the top manufacturers of golf equipment, including drivers by TaylorMade, Callaway, Titleist, and more.
Your height and wrist-to-floor measurement can be used by golf retailers to determine if you are suited for standard-length drivers. If not, the shaft can be adjusted. However, the longer the club, the harder it is to hit accurately. Some golfers lose control with longer clubs, resulting in hitting the ball off-center.
Especially that 3-wood. But never fear, with all of the options on the Hot List, this year could be the year you conquer your fairway woods. But never fear, with all of the options on the Hot List, this year could be the year you conquer your fairway woods.
The gap wedge is a golf club that is used for distances too short for a pitching wedge and too long for a sand wedge. It has a club head angle that is in between those of its cousins the pitching and sand wedges. The gap wedge is a specialized club for the golfer who plays close to the green.
Lob wedges are the easiest clubs to use when the situation calls for a high trajectory and a soft landing. Of course rolling a ball onto the green with a putter, or hitting a low, running chip gives you the largest margin for error.
Utility clubs and hybrids are a relatively recent addition to the pantheon of golf clubs, and they are growing in popularity because they are designed to be easier to hit for recreational golfers. Increasingly in recent years, professional golfers have integrated a few of these clubs into their bag, utilizing the increased mobility, swing, and control to launch their balls further down the fairway every year.
The golf clubs called irons are so-called because their clubheads are made of metal. Of course, "woods" are now also made of metal, but that's a relatively recent development. Irons have featured metal clubheads (steel, these days) for centuries.
Pitching wedge: The lowest-lofted of the wedges (the one that hits the ball the farthest), pitching wedges (abbreviated PW) are usually included in a set of irons. The PW is considered one of the basic clubs every golfer carries. Sand wedge: Designed specifically to make hitting shots out of bunkers easier. Abbreviated SW.
Fairway woods are good clubs off the tee or from the fairway; their smaller heads and greater lofts help get the ball up into the air. Beginners might want to consider carrying some extra fairway woods (5-wood, 7-wood, and 9-wood, for example) in place of the long irons (2-, 3-, 4- and even 5-irons).
Pitching wedge: The lowest-lofted of the wedges (the one that hits the ball the farthest), pitching wedges (abbreviated PW) are usually included in a set of irons. The PW is considered one of the basic clubs every golfer carries. Sand wedge: Designed specifically to make hitting shots out of bunkers easier. Abbreviated SW.
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Wedges are the highest-lofted clubs in a set of golf clubs, designed for short approach shots (for most golfers, 120 yards and in), strokes played out of sand, chip shots and pitch shots, and generally any shot for which the golfer wants the ball to ascend and descend sharply.
The terms "utility clubs" and "hybrid clubs" are generally used interchangeably, and they denote a category of clubs that combine elements of both woods and irons into their design to accentuate the better qualities of each.
The A-wedge is a golf club that is another name for a gap wedge, which is used for shorter and softer shots, and one of the four main types of wedges, which include (from least loft to most loft) the pitching wedge, A-wedge, sand wedge and lob wedge. A golf club manufacturer might identify an A-wedge by stamping an "A" or "AW" on the sole near the toe of the club, but it's becoming more common all the time to stamp the wedge's degrees of loft there.