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| Now that you “have taken up” the | | | | of a golf hole. Next you can hit the golf on a flat |
| social sport of golf you may well have a couple of | | | | surface of the golf course, like the fairway. The |
| questions. Golf and golf is a most terrific social | | | | “wood” golf clubs are made and |
| sport. You get to while away hours, conferring | | | | designed to hit the ball a long, long way. Accuracy |
| with the golf greens as well as your friends on | | | | of the hit of the golf ball is less of an issue here. |
| the golf course. It’s a wonderful, relaxing | | | | Woods obtained their name as they used to be |
| pastime. As well many of business’s | | | | made of persimmon wood itself. While some of |
| “big deals” and business contacts | | | | these clubs are still made the old way, out of |
| can well be made golfing and on the golf course | | | | actual persimmon wood, most now are made out |
| as well in the golf course clubhouse. | | | | of metal – generally steel or better yet |
| Now that you have decided to enroll in the | | | | titanium. Some golfing fanatics will tell you that the |
| pastime of golf what indeed are the basics of | | | | permission based woods gives these golfers |
| golf? | | | | “more control” on the golf course. |
| To begin with w standard set of golf and golfing | | | | Again as a beginner golfer why complicate your |
| clubs includes three “woods” golf | | | | life unnecessarily. Start with standard metal |
| clubs. These three woods or | | | | woods. In addition maintenance and care of these |
| “drivers” comprise the | | | | clubs is easier. |
| “driver”, | | | | Like woods the irons are mismatched. These |
| “three-wood” and | | | | groups of golf clubs are not made out of iron but |
| “five-wood”. Next in line, in the | | | | mostly of steel, titanium and with higher end iron |
| description of standard golf clubs are the | | | | utilizing high tech graphite materials in their |
| “irons”. The groups of the | | | | structures as well. Irons with the smallest |
| “irons” group of golf clubs | | | | numbers, like the three-iron or the four-iron, have |
| generally are composed of the three-iron, | | | | the longest shafts and are designed to hit the golf |
| five-iron, six-iron, seven-iron, eight-iron, nine-iron, | | | | ball lower and further, and like the woods, with |
| pitching wedge and finally the all famous golf club, | | | | less accuracy. Shafts get shorter as the numbers |
| with which to make your final shot into the golf | | | | printed on the sole get bigger and larger, until you |
| cup on the golf green. | | | | get to the “Sand Wedge”. The |
| According the strict rules of golf you cannot carry | | | | sand wedge is the shortest club in the golf bag. |
| more than fourteen clubs in your personal golf | | | | The standard sand wedge has a 34 inch shaft, |
| bag. This is a very strict and enforced rule of the | | | | which is eight inches shorter than a standard |
| game and sport of golf. You cannot carry more | | | | driver shaft. The shortest clubs, like the nine irons, |
| than the maximum allotted number of fourteen | | | | pitching wedge, and sand wedge are designed for |
| golf clubs in your golf bag – even if you | | | | accuracy, not distance. An optimum shot with a |
| never ever use those extra clubs. It can be said | | | | pitching wedge flies high in the air and lands softly, |
| that often more experienced and advanced golf | | | | without much roll. That way you can aim right at |
| players mix and match here and there with extra | | | | the hole. Indeed golf professionals often call their |
| , non of the mill , non standard golf clubs , for | | | | wedges “money clubs” since these |
| example a one-iron or a seven wood. However in | | | | pro golfers cannot win the high end golf |
| these cases the sum total maximum of the golf | | | | tournaments unless they can hit the ball so close |
| clubs in their bag adds up to 14 golf clubs. As a | | | | to the hole that they are in with only a very few |
| newcomer or beginner golf player it is always | | | | putts. |
| best to start your golf career with the standard , | | | | Lastly you will find that because these shafts are |
| simple array of golf clubs that are used by most | | | | so much shorter and are designed to get your |
| golfers. Why make life, and your golf career, | | | | golf ball into the air, you will find that you will |
| complex for yourself, unnecessarily. | | | | generally have your most success as a new and |
| The woods have the longest shafts of any golf | | | | budding golf aficionado with your nine-iron and |
| club in your bag. The golf wood clubs are designed | | | | pitching wedge. These are very good clubs to |
| to simply hit the golf ball either from a small | | | | practice when you are first starting out. You will |
| wooden peg, called the tee, which elevates the | | | | soon discover what a great golf shot is supposed |
| ball slightly. You can only use a | | | | to feel and look like. |