How to Choose the Best Wedges to Improve Your Golf Score

Ever wonder how the players on T.V. hit those perfect shots around the green that end up stopping right beside the hole?

How to Keep Your Clubs Looking and Performing Like Brand New

Golf clubs today are really an investment. More than just financially, also an investment in your game. Iron sets can cost over $2000 or more. Wood sets $1700. Drivers alone can cost in excess of $1000. At the time of purchase there is not much said about how to care for your new clubs. some stores will tell you to use long neck head covers if your clubs have graphite shafts, but that’s about the total of the advice. A quality set of clubs properly cared for can last a lifetime.

Hybrid Clubs or Fairway Woods?

Hybrid clubs keep growing in popularity. And the lofts on hybrids keep getting lower. This gives you more options but blurs the distinction between hybrid clubs and fairway woods.

Choosing the Right Golf Club for You

Golf club selection can be difficult for seasoned players, and even more so for beginners. There are so many variables in this difficult choice different club types, designs, and features, not to mention your own skills, swing and needs. To help you make a choice, or at least narrow the field, the following information on golf clubs is an overview designed to help you make the right golf club selection for you.

Energize Your Short Game With the Right Lob Wedge

What’s the one shot most players would like to add to their game for lower scores? If you answered a high, soft shot within about 60 yards of the green I think you’d be right. Most mid to high handicap players want to know how to master the lob wedge.

New Rules for Forming an Online USGA Golf Club

Commencing January 1, 2006, the USGA published new guidelines in the USGA Handicap Manual on forming a “golf club” and attaining a sanctioned USGA golf handicap. Forming such a golf club is relatively easy and free. It is important for golfers to understand the new regulations and take advantage of the new rules in order for them to have greater access to a USGA golf handicap index over the Internet.

What Constitutes One

Golf clubs. In this article we're not talking about the kind that you grip and use to take a swipe at a poor defenseless golf ball with. We're going to talk about the kind that you join. More specifically, what constitutes a golf club and what exactly does it mean to a golfer to be part of one. It's more than just a place to hang out and trade tall tales.

Putters

Remember when you used to play miniature golf and putters looked like, well, like putters? Today that has all changed. Putters today look like something that came from a futuristic outer space society. So with all the different shapes and styles of putters to choose from the question becomes, "which putter do I get?" This article won't try to answer that question because everyone's game is different but what this article will do is give you information on some of the putters you're likely to find out there on the market today, explain the differences, and hopefully from there you can make an informed decision.

Golf clubs are used in the sport of golf to hit a golf ball. Each club is composed of a shaft with a lance (grip) and a clubhead. Woods are used for long-distance fairway shots; irons, the most versatile class used for a variety of shots, and putters, used mainly on the green to roll the ball into the cup.

An important variation in different clubs is loft, or the angle between the club's face and the vertical plane. It is loft that makes a golf ball leave the tee on an ascending trajectory, not the angle of swing; virtually all swings contact the ball with a horizontal motion. The impact of the club compresses the ball, while grooves on the clubface give the ball backspin (a clockwise spin when viewed from a parallel standpoint to the left of the ball). Together, the compression and backspin create lift. The majority of woods and irons are labeled with a number; higher numbers indicate shorter shafts and higher lofts, which give the ball a higher and shorter trajectory.

While the variation of clubs can differ greatly between golfers, a set used to play a round of golf must have no more than 14 clubs. A full set typically consists of a driver, two fairway woods (generally 3- and 5-woods), a set of irons from 3 to 9, a pitching wedge, a sand wedge, a putter, and one more club of the player's choice. Many amateurs opt to avoid the 3- and 4-irons (that many find difficult to hit), and replace them with more forgiving clubs, like hybrids.