It is important to familiarize yourself with the various kinds of golf clubs to have a head start as a new golfer. As a golfer, your clubs won't be enough without different specialized ones. There are different types of clubs a golfer can own.
Putters are a type of gold club. Unlike any other club in the golfer's bag, putters are designed for a single purpose and boast the most diverse collection of shapes and sizes. These specialized clubs are the golfer's tool of choice for the final, delicate attempts to navigate the green and send the ball tumbling into the cup at the hole's end. Putters are one of the varied types of golf clubs available in the market. There are blade putters, mallet putters, and modern mallet putters.
Wood is also commonly used during golf tournaments. Wood clubs usually have the largest heads, which are hollow and extend several inches from front to back and left to right. Wood clubs provide golfers with the fastest swings and the longest shots. It is important to note that wood golfs are still called wood golfs despite the fact that their clubheads no longer consist of wood.
There are two major types of wood clubs: drivers and fairway wood. A fairway wood club is long and is intended to be used either from the fairway or off the tee. Fairway clubs have about 13 to 22 degrees of loft with a lower center of gravity. Golfers use the fairway wood club to gain more control of a tight tee. They are also used to chip shots from off the green. The drivers, on the other hand, are the longest and have the biggest head side among golfers' clubs. Drivers have a metal head and are considered "wood" clubs even though they are not made of wood anymore.
Iron clubs are another commonly used type of golf club. They usually come in numbered sets that might range from three to nine irons or pitching wedges. Compared to wood clubs, iron clubs have smaller heads and are thin from front to back. Golfers often call the iron head "blade" because of its unique head. Iron clubs are made up of both solid and hollow heads. They also have an angled face popularly described as a loft. The loft is usually engraved with groves that make it possible for the club head to grip the golf ball and facilitate a spin while the ball is in motion.
Another type of golf club is the wedge. For approaches within 120 yards or so, golfers rely on wedges for accuracy. The purpose of the wedge is to drastically alter the ball's trajectory, either upwards or downwards. Although wedges are a distinct class of golf club, some golfers consider them a subset of iron clubs. This is due to the similarities in their club heads. However, they differ in that wedges' heads are more angled for increased loft. These golf clubs are the tallest and are utilized for playing out of sand bunkers, chipping and pitching around greens, and shorter approach shots into greens. There are different types of wedges, namely, the gap wedge, the lob wedge, the pitching wedge, and the sand wedge.
