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2009-12-12 16:25:33
The evolution of the club
Golf clubs is the most important equipment of the sport. Over the centuries has been a considerable change in golf, then the change in the club more and greater than the change in the ball.
Golf clubs are categorized by function:
(1) Woods: mainly used for kick-off, which is characterized by shaft length, head relatively light, which leads to easy to swing. Modern driver (Driver) although has been called a wood, in fact more than 80 percent of the drivers has been made of metal.
Wood sub-four kinds, namely No. 1 wood (Driver), 3-wood (Spoon), 4-wood (Baffy), 5 Driver (Cleek). Number of smaller, longer shaft length, weight, the more light; the contrary, the number the greater the shorter the shaft length, weight, the more weight. Wooden case, iron no different. Nos. 1 to 5-wood length from 43 inches to 41 inches by 0.5 inches on the 1st of each increase.
(2) Irons: The actual stainless steel rod, ball joint forging or casting made. Most of stainless steel shaft has a different shaft flexibility. Iron is usually the length of 95 centimeters.
Their identity is easy to keep hitting the directional thrust of the campaign is to use golf shot hit the ball close to goal, thus ensuring the maximum direction, so hit the ball even before they achieve the target goal of at least near the primary objective. Iron shot is not part of soft iron manufacture, it is at the bottom of the Department of smaller degree than the wood or wood as thick as the short length. As the weight of the severity of iron, so swing, such as mowing, swing angle better, easier to set off the turf. A total of nine kinds of Irons ranging from 3 iron to 9 iron and pitching wedge (Piching Wedge), sand wedge (Sand Wedge). One to Nine iron from 39 inches in length to 35 inches, the same that is on the 1st for each additional 0.5 inches shorter.