Golf Club Specifications
The USGA allows you to carry 14 different clubs in your bag. A standard puppy golf set consists of 3 woods (# 1 driver, # 3 wood, and # 5 wood) and 8 irons (# 3 – # 9 and PW) and one putter = 12 clubs.
The function of the makeup of a golf game is to fill the golf bag with the best complement of the 14 clubs that the USGA allows us to carry. The idea is to provide a series of different clubs, each designed to hit the ball at a specific distance. The problem is that most golfers and some club makers don’t really know how to do this. The basic idea behind the composition of the golf game is to replace hard-to-hit clubs with ones that are easier to hit but hit the ball at the same distance. The obvious set composition recommendations are: high loft or hybrid fairway woods replace conventional long irons and a wedge to fill the loft space between a PW and SW.
a driver
The driver (also called 1 Wood) has the lowest loft of all golf clubs. Loft is the angle of the clubface that controls trajectory and affects distance. A driver has a loft between 7 and 12 degrees. Experienced golfers have traditionally preferred lower loft drivers (less than 10 degrees loft), which require much more skill to hit than higher loft drivers.
What prevents all golfers from hitting their driver as far as possible? The driver has the longest length and the lowest loft of all the clubs in the bag. The club maker’s creed says: “The longer the length, the lower the loft, the heavier the weight and the stiffer the shaft, the harder it will be for any golfer to hit the club.” Not surprisingly, the driver is a difficult club to hit well for many golfers.
The driver does not need to be a driver. It simply has to be the club that the golfer can hit the furthest distance from the tee and keep the ball on short grass as often as possible. More golf companies are now offering drivers with lofts up to 15º for golfers with low swing speeds. For golfers with a very slow swing speed, even in the 50 mph area, a driver with a 15º loft is still not enough to maximize their swing speed. In other words, if the driver has to be a 5 or even a 7 club to have enough loft to allow a player to hit the ball as much as his ability allows, then that should be the player’s driver. Some of the best golf club sets have these specifications. Fujikura golf shafts will best complement these golf clubs
b) Fairway wood
For most golfers, the second highest impact wood in their bag is a 3 wood. However, for many golfers, their 5 or even 7 wood is actually the second longest hitting wood. For many golfers, the loft on their 3 board is too low for them to actually lift the ball high enough into the air to be able to be their second longest hitting board. What determines whether a golfer can hit the lowest and highest woods in the air? The higher the golfer’s swing speed and / or the higher the golfer’s angle of attack, the lower the loft the golfer can easily lift into the air to fly.