Why, you ask? Fairway woods have shorter shafts, more loft and impart more backspin, making them easier to hit straight and with added control despite their diminutive size when compared to a driver. See No. Despite being labeled as fairway woods, these clubs are usually harder to hit off the turf than hybrids.
Whatever the reason, the fact is many golfers will hit better shots more often off the turf using hybrids over fairway woods — even with the ball not flying quite as far. It takes a shallow swing with plenty of clubhead speed to hit a wood well enough off the fairway to reap the reward. You may need to hit a stinger off the tee that flies low, or a high cut around a tree from the fairway — these types of shots are generally more attainable with woods than with hybrids and fly farther to boot.
There are two categories of hybrids nowadays: wood-like hybrids and iron-like hybrids often called utility irons , each designed to complement or serve as replacements to their namesakes. No matter what combination of woods or hybrids you settle on, you want to avoid owning two different clubs that yield similar results.
Ask yourself and be honest — is there a huge difference in how far your 3-wood flies when compared to your hybrid? Or maybe you carry two hybrids — if so, are your ball flights and distances discernible?
A wider stance will give you a more stable base and a better opportunity to deliver impact and put additional power behind the wood. Choke up an inch on the club.
The objective isn't to hit the ball as hard as you can. Allow the club to do the work for you. Start your backswing and allow the club to sweep along the fairway grass. From your practice strokes, this should feel fairly comfortable.
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Non-pros should probably play drivers with lifts 10 degrees or higher. So, our recommendation is: follow the advice of the PGA pros and increase the loft of your driver. Most golfers also carry 3 and 5 woods in their bag.
A 3 wood has a loft between 15 and 18 degrees, and a 5 wood has a loft between 20 and 22 degrees. The higher the golf club number, the higher the loft. Also, the higher the golf club number, the shorter the club shaft length.
The 3 wood and 5 wood are commonly referred to as fairway woods , because they are most often used during the second shot of play, when you are supposed to be in the fairway of the golf hole as opposed to in the woods! All higher lofted woods 7, 9, 11, and so on are commonly referred to as utility woods. However, we build all our woods higher than a 5 wood the same length as the 5 wood. This is because shortening a club decreases the arc of the swing. The smaller the arc, the less speed the golf club will have when it strikes the ball — ergo the less distance the ball will travel.
We believe that a 5 wood is short enough and while the 7 and 9 woods provide more forgiveness, we also want longer distance in our shots.
Arghh, the physics of golf! What about 2 and 4 woods? These woods actually exist and were popular 20 or more years ago, but they have fallen out of favor as newer technologies have improved the performance of woods. Today, most golfers prefer 7 and 9 woods in their bag which can only have fourteen clubs than a 2 or 4 wood.
In fact, there is now a trend to include higher numbered woods and eliminate the traditional low numbered irons in your set of golf clubs. That will be discussed in greater detail when we talk about irons. Why aren't woods made of wood? They used to be, but since the 's woods have been made of metal. Metal has many advantages over wood. For the beginning golfer, the most important features are perimeter weighting and low center of gravity LCG which can only be achieved through precisely molded metal.
Both of these design technologies result in golf clubs that are much more forgiving than wooden woods. Perimeter weighting helps create a larger sweet spot — a larger area on the face of the club that will result in a good hit. Low center of gravity creates mass at the right place — increasing the height that the ball will launch off the club and reducing the likelihood of miss-hits into the ground.
What about hybrids? In the past 5 years a recent development that began over 10 years ago has really caught on with pros and non-pros alike. Hybrids are a combination of a fairway wood head design and a iron length shaft. The long irons have traditionally been the most difficult to hit.
Evidence of this difficulty was best captured by Lee Trevino, who said, "if you are ever caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron, not even God can hit a 1-iron. Hybrids are commonly touted as "the best of both worlds. An important factor is the distance that many hybrids offer when compared to a typical 3 or 4 iron shot.
You will also see golfers opt out from using 5 woods and 7 woods, replacing those fairway woods with a 2 or 3 hybrid. It is important to remember that while most manufacturers match the hybrid number to the corresponding iron number, the best indicator of distance when looking at hybrids is the loft.
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