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