Golf Club Sets
A standard golf club set typically includes a set of irons, as well as woods. The irons are generally numbered from 1 through to 9, although many golf club sets do not include a 1-iron or a 2-iron as standard. It is also common to find many sets including only the odd numbered irons. The type of irons that are regularly found in a set are a pitching wedge, a club with an even more shallow angle than the face of a 9-iron, a sand wedge, which in turn follows on from the pitching wedge, and a lob wedge, which follows the sand wedge.
Woods are used for long-distance fairway shots; irons, the most versatile class used for a variety of shots, and putters, used mainly on the green to roll the ball into the cup.
The most important variation in the different golf clubs is the loft, or the angle between the club’s face and the vertical plane. It is this loft that makes a golf ball leave the tee, or golf course on an ascending trajectory. The impact of the club itself compresses the ball, while grooves on the golf club face give the ball backspin (a clockwise spin when viewed from a parallel standpoint to the left of the golf ball). Together, the compression and backspin work together to create lift. As mentioned previously the majority of woods and irons are labeled with a number; higher numbers indicate shorter shafts and higher lofts, which give the ball a higher and shorter trajectory.
While the variation of clubs can differ greatly between golfers, a golf club set used to play a round of golf must have no more than 14 clubs in total. Full golf club sets typically consists of a driver, two fairway woods (generally 3- and 5-woods), a set of irons from 3 to 9, a pitching wedge, a sand wedge, a putter, and one more club of the player’s choice. Many amateurs opt to avoid the 3 and 4 irons as they are clubs that are harder to hit with, and replace them with more forgiving clubs,such as hybrids.
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