Picking the right club for your game
Thursday, April 30th, 2009When you start to play golf then the most common assumption is that the more expensive a club is the more it will help our game – I mean that is what the adverts on TV tell us right? All the pros use expensive clubs so they must be the best? Wrong!
First of all, the clubs the pros use are possibly the worst type of clubs that you could think of buying, why? Because they are for professionals!. The kind of clubs that a pro uses don’t have any of the extra design elements that give more forgiveness, this is to give the player more control over what they want the shot to do.
For the normal level of player then the sweetspot is just going to be too small and your ball will end up in the trees somewhere when you slice and dice it. You need something which has extra weight added to the back corners and/or extra rigidity built into the face to give a larger sweetspot so the ball goes straight even when you hit it slightly off centre.
Another reason that more expensive is not always better is because we all like different setups, and if you think that buying a top notch set of clubs guarantees you will like them, then think again. There are certain things you need to consider, the weight of the club, the weight of the head, the shaft type, even how the shaft connects to the head, all of these things can affect the way you play and the feel of the club as you use it.
First of all you need to get yourself down to a golf shop to test out a few different types, get to a shop that is next to a golf course or driving range so you can test clubs out, try different weights and shafts and types, and find what you like, then head onto the web and find some golf club reviews like this Pinemeadow Command Q4 Fairway Woods Review or this Pinemeadow Command Q Irons Review so you can find some great clubs.
