| You can't ignore the role of the club when playing golf. | | | | still pull them off to some degree, but I just love shot |
| Here are some useful tips on golf clubs. | | | | making as opposed to same shot all the time. |
| When you do hit a shot to the right or left, you may | | | | But the biggest reason I can't stand those type clubs |
| not want it to go as far as if you hit it straight. This is a | | | | and the big name brands are the worse, is that I |
| big selling point for these clubs. But think about it. Ninety | | | | cannot for the life of me chip and pitch with the darn |
| percent of the time if you hit the ball left or right of the | | | | things. Now I admit some of that may be mental, |
| green you are better off being short than pin high or | | | | because I don't like the way most of them look, but |
| long right or left. Not to mention, how many greens | | | | even the less extreme ones just seem to rocket the |
| have slopes on the side that you really don't want to | | | | ball off the club and I just couldn't get a feel for them. I |
| hit on the fly. A green will hold a pin high shot, a slope, | | | | think once again it has something to do with the |
| or even just off the green has a tendency to bounce | | | | de-lofting and the extra weight at the bottom. |
| much harder, and send your shot further into trouble. | | | | The last thing is that you don't get any feedback from |
| So when you miss a shot, and I never noticed these | | | | these clubs. You can't feel the difference in a good |
| clubs improve any ones direction, (in fact if you hit the | | | | shot or a mediocre shot. So, you have to know when |
| ball a bit on the toe of your blades they have a | | | | things aren't quite right, before you get into any bad |
| tendency to draw the ball back in), you're almost | | | | habits (or at least any more bad habits). When you hit |
| always in a better position for par if you end up short | | | | a good blade you can feel the whole shot better, |
| or near pin high than you are long and further away | | | | especially at impact. Golf is very much a game of |
| from the green, usually with a downhill slope to the hole | | | | being able to reproduce an action which brings about a |
| instead of an uphill slope. | | | | certain feel which brings about good shots. You will |
| When you hit a bit of a thin shot with your blades they | | | | know where the ball is going when you will hit a shot |
| carry just as far but with a lower trajectory and a lot | | | | with good blades. |
| of spin. Those game improvement clubs if you hit them | | | | *** |
| thin just wave goodbye to the flag stick as they go by, | | | | Part of this whole club thing, in my opinion, is that |
| unless you happen to hit the flag. Now if you hit your | | | | people would buy a good set of Hogans, Rams, or |
| blades too thin you will be short, but once again that is | | | | Titleists and if you had those why you could use them |
| usually preferable to long. Now the reason for all this is | | | | for 20 or more years, and it is my belief that they |
| the enlarged "sweet spot" on these new clubs, but you | | | | were making such good golf clubs by the late 60's and |
| may find that there is actually more variance in | | | | 70's that they killed their market except for new |
| distance on a given shot than in your clubs. | | | | golfers. |
| In other words if you hit your 8 iron sweet as can be, | | | | So they had to find a way to convince golfers that |
| as opposed to just well, you might hit it 5 yards further | | | | these new clubs were better clubs, and they did. Now |
| than normal. With these wonder clubs they can go up | | | | one of the things that I feel enabled them to do this |
| to 20, even as much as 30 yards further than a | | | | was the advent of the metal wood. I do think these |
| normally struck ball. The iron game is an accuracy | | | | clubs, big heads, lighter shafts; lighter heads do have a |
| game. What good does it do to say "Yeah I hit my 8 | | | | large advantage over the conventional wood. |
| iron 180 yards the other day?" Yeah, but what was | | | | Why do I feel this way about the woods and not the |
| your score on the hole? Besides which, if you have a | | | | irons? Because of the very nature and function of the |
| larger gap in between each iron, you have many more | | | | drive opposed to the nature and function of the iron |
| "in between clubs" situations. | | | | shot. You won't care if you hit you driver 20 or 30 |
| I think John Daly and Tiger Woods sometimes get into | | | | yards further sometimes, will you? |
| trouble because of their extreme length, not that the | | | | I have no problem with an off center hit still going a |
| trade-off of distance off the tee doesn't make up for | | | | good distance even if its a bit off to one side or the |
| it, it just isn't an advantage to hit short irons a long way | | | | other, on a drive. The only bad trade off I see is that |
| sometimes. When there's a 25 yard difference | | | | once in a great while you hit it real bad and it goes far |
| between your 8 iron and your 9 iron it's tough to | | | | enough to get you in more trouble than a conventional |
| control distance. | | | | club. I do however feel those instances are rare. The |
| *** | | | | only time you wouldn't welcome extra yards is when |
| To tell the truth I love to work the ball when I want. It is | | | | you'd hit it through the fairway or would rather be a full |
| such a kick to pull off a shot where you really had to | | | | wedge away instead of a 2/3's wedge, but then a |
| hook or fade the ball. You can use punch shots, high | | | | person shouldn't be hitting a driver in those situations |
| fades, etc. when the situation calls for it, and you just | | | | anyway! So the metal woods became popular as |
| can't pull those shots off as well or consistently with | | | | game improvement clubs and the rest is history. |
| perimeter weighted clubs. No one will argue that. Many | | | | So, try to use our tips above and your game will |
| good players don't mind that so much, I mean you can | | | | definitely improve. |