Golf clubs are the tools we use to strike the golf ball. A golf club has three components — Hovedet, Skaftet og Grebet. The golfregler constrain golf club designs, but the goal of clubmakers is to create golf clubs, within those constraints that maximize the physics behind a golfer's swing while allowing for some range of swing error to provide an accurate, long, and forgiving shot. The better your swing, the less forgiving club you require whereas the more your swing needs work, the better off you are with a more forgiving club design.
Et moderne sæt golfkøller består typisk af tre træsorter (1-driveren, 3 og 5), mindst 1 hybrid (3H) syv jern (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 og PW) og en putter. Dette giver dig i alt tolv køller. Golfreglerne tillader dig at have fjorten køller med i tasken, så mange golfspillere tilføjer endnu en wedge eller specialhybrid. Jo flere værktøjer vi har i vores værktøjskasse, jo flere muligheder har du for at gøre det nemmere at udføre dit arbejde!
Woods
Woods are used to hit long shots. If a golf hole is 450 yards from tee to green, most golfers use a wood to hit off the tee. A wood is a hollow-bodied large headed golf club. It's customary to use your woods when you are 175 yards or more away from the green.
The chauffør (also called the 1 træ) har det laveste loft af enhver golfkølle. Loft er vinklen på køllefladen, der styrer banen og påvirker afstanden. En chauffør har et loft mellem 7 og 12 grader. Erfarne golfspillere har traditionelt foretrækket drivere med lavere loft (mindre end 10 graders loft), som kræver meget mere dygtighed at slå end drivere med højere loft.
A dramatic development has occurred over the past several years — professional golfers are throwing out their low lofted drivers and opting for large-headed, higher-lofted 10 and 11 degree drivers. Their argument is that the longest drives are achieved by combining a high launch angle with lower spin. This change is a huge reversal from prior years. During the mid to late 1990's, the average loft on the PGA Tour was around 7 degrees. However, those were difficult shots for the pros to make and the low loft resulted in lots of spin on the ball. The experts in ball flight analysis showed that the longest golf drives are achieved with a high launch angle combined with low spin. The new solid core golf balls provide that low spin which was not available in the golf balls of yesterday. A higher lofted club gives the golfer the higher launch angle.
De fleste PGA-professionelle har nu drivere med lofts på 8,5 til 10 grader eller mere. Ikke-professionelle bør nok spille kørere med løft 10 grader eller højere. Så vores anbefaling er: følg rådene fra PGA-professionelle og øg din chaufførs loft.
Most golfers also carry 3 and 5 skove 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 brugstræ. A 3 wood is generally ½" shorter than a driver and so on with each successive club. 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 skove provide more forgiveness, we also want longer distance in our shots. Arghh, the physics of golf!
What about 2 and 4 skove? Disse træsorter eksisterer faktisk og var populære for 20 eller flere år siden, men de er faldet i unåde, da nyere teknologier har forbedret træets ydeevne. I dag foretrækker de fleste golfspillere 7 og 9 træsorter i deres taske (som kun kan have fjorten køller) end en 2 eller 4 træsorter. Faktisk er der nu en tendens til at inkludere højere nummererede skove og eliminere de traditionelle lavnummererede jern i dit sæt golfkøller. Det vil blive diskuteret mere detaljeret, når vi taler om strygejern.
Why aren't woods made of wood? They used to be, but since the 1980's woods have been made of metal. Metal has many advantages over wood. For the beginning golfer, the most important features are perimetervægtning and lavt tyngdepunkt (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 sødt sted — 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.