Thursday, November 26, 2009

Golf Clubs What is the Best Choice?

By Alex Mirabeau

Any golf professional will tell you about the importance of golf clubs when playing this game. Thus, newer golf club technologies were innovated from time t time to provide a more efficient playing experience. If you look around your options in the market, you will find lighter, bigger, and more efficiently performing golf clubs out there. Moreover, your ability to utilize them according to its design aim to create a separation between experienced versus inexperienced golfers. So, for newbie to the sport, one of the most essential things to consider is basically to identify what qualities you need to look for when buying golf clubs.

For beginners, there are different elements contained in a set of golf clubs: drivers, wedges, putters, and irons. If you choose the golf club correctly, the beginner will easily become equipped with the basic skills needed for an effective golfing play. Depending on the type of club you choose, it will affect the swing speed and be able to improve your approach in the game, as well as the results.

There are different factors that make up the golf club shaft, which are style, size, and type of material used to making them. Steel is the most inexpensive material used for making a golf club, which has its own set of advantages and disadvantages. They are more long-lasting than other types, although they could weigh more. The use of steel shaft provides more efficient control over the club so you can execute a fast swing. Meanwhile, the graphite shaft is lighter as compared to those made of steel material. However, they are a bit more expensive than the latter. The steel and graphite golf clubs are among two of the most common types available in the market today.

In addition to the stated features of the graphite shaft such as its being lightweight and ease in handling, this type of golf club can also be forgiving if you take a bad shot. Graphite material clubs absorb vibration very well such that you can get a better feeling shot. You are also able to swing at a greater distance since the light material will consequently increase the speed of your swing.

The flexibility of a shaft is referred to as flex, or bend. The less the bend in a shaft, the more control the powerful swinger will have. On the other hand, beginners and those with less powerful swings generally use a shaft with greater flexibility. The average swing speed is from 65 miles per hour for the beginner up to over 100 miles per hour for powerful swingers.

Then is the consideration of golf club driver. For the beginner a head made of titanium is more suitable as it is lighter but stronger than steel. So, the titanium head is made bigger as a bigger titanium head weighs about the same as that of a smaller steel head. But a larger head driver provides more area to hit the ball with and at the same time this type of club head is less punishing on you if you happen to miss hit the ball or have a poor shot.

The advantage to having a large head driver is there is a larger "sweet spot" giving you more area to hit the ball with. With this type of golf club head, the club will be much more forgiving if you miss hit the ball or have a bad shot. The goal when buying golf clubs should be to own the best golf clubs you can afford, whether they are name brands, used, or a reproduction of one of the name brands.

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