Golf Club Sets

Golf club sets can vary a great deal. Modern golf rules allow for fourteen clubs in your golf bag at a given time. Which clubs you carry will no doubt depend on your level of experience, the skill you play with and the golf courses and country clubs you frequent.

The features and function of modern day woods, irons and putters will not only effect what combination of sticks you keep in your bag, but how each one, based on its design, will benefit your game the most.

The first staple in golf club sets is the wood. Most golfers carry anywhere from three to five woods. The basic function of the wood is to propel the ball a long distance. To this end, they typically have the longest shafts and the largest club heads to produce the most head speed and maximize a player’s ability to hit a straight shot.

Like all golf clubs in golf club sets used to launch the ball forward and with a degree of loft, woods are numbered. The higher the degree of loft a club offers, the higher the number it is stamped with.

Golf club sets that include three woods usually include the one, three, and five wood. The number one wood, also called the driver, has the lowest loft angle, somewhere between seven to ten degrees. The primary purpose of the driver is to hit the ball from the tee to start toward a particular hole.

Traditionally it was believed that the lower the trajectory flight of the ball, the further the drive. Modern analysis has found that a slightly higher loft angle will produce longer drives, resulting in the preferred loft of one wood in your golf club set to be between ten and twelve degrees.

The three wood and the five wood of your golf club set, also known as fairway woods, offer higher loft and are used to advance the ball from the fairway, although they can be used from the tee.

Woods are ideal on average for any driving distance over 175 yards. Lately, there has been a trend for golfers to keep seven and nine woods as part of their golf club sets. They offer the same high loft angles as the seven and nine irons, but are more forgiving than irons.

The next necessary ingredient in a golf club set is the iron. Irons are numbered like woods, with the higher numbers representing higher loft angles. Irons also have shaft sizes that are reduced proportionally with their higher loft angle. This is because less club head speed and more control are needed when closer to the green.

A typical golf club set will contain a three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine iron, plus a pitching wedge. These clubs are used to advance the ball over shorter distances accurately. The main purpose behind the high loft angles is that the ball falls at a steep angle, reducing the amount of roll after the landing.

The final ingredient in a typical golf club set is the putter. The purpose of the putter is to accurately roll the ball across the green and into the cup.

With a standard golf club set being composed of a combination of these twelve pieces, two more pieces can be legally carried in your golf bag.

Some prefer a sand wedge, which is like a pitching wedge but specifically designed to hit the ball out of sand traps. Other golfers prefer to carry extra woods like the seven and nine wood. Some may choose to take up those empty slots with hybrids, which are clubs that cross the features of woods and irons.

However you decide to make your golf club set complete, there are hundreds of manufacturers who offer a variety of clubs and irons each with different features and material compositions to help you get the most out of your golf game.