Golf Clubs: It's A Mixed Bag

Ever since Tiger Woods burst onto the golf scene like a superhero, golf has become the latest cool thing. Gone are the days when the football jock ruled the high school: make way for the golfer! OK, that may be a bit of an exaggeration. Still, there is no denying callaway golf clubs for sale that Tiger (don't you love how we all call him by his first name?) has done a great deal for the image of golf; he's made it cool, fun and yes, sexy. Yet it is still the same sport it always was. It still involves balls, tees and funny spiked shoes, and it still requires a fairly Taylormade r9 irons extensive knowledge of the various golf clubs. Even Tiger uses all of these pieces of equipment. The fact is, if you want to be like Tiger, you still need to know your woods from your irons, your wedges from your putters.A golf player is allowed to carry no more than 14 clubs in his bag during a game. The three major types of clubs are woods, irons, and TaylorMade Burner Irons 2009 putters. Woods are used for long shots from the tee, fairway or occasionally the rough. Irons are used for precision shots, which usually take place from the fairway or rough. And putters are used mostly on the green, although they can Taylormade r7 TP irons also be used from hazard bunkers (holes or depressions that have been filled with sand). Finally, wedges are a specific kind of iron usually used to approach the green from difficult ground, such as sand or rough. A golfer needs to know, first and Taylormade burner plus irons foremost, what kind of club is required for a given situation. Recently, a new kind of wood club has been developed. It is known as a "hybrid," and it combines the precision abilities of an iron with the distance potential of a wood.