28 December 2009
Which Type of Golf Clubs are Best for Improving Golfers?
Posted by Mike Jackson under: Golf .
When you first take up the game of golf, it can seem confusing to choose a type of club to buy for yourself. There are steel clubs, graphite clubs, and some sets offer a combination of both types. You might not know what the differences are, so here's some advice my golf professional gave me.
You'll need to work out how much to spend. You should be honest with yourself about a couple of things. In the first place, you need to determine how committed you are to playing golf. If you think you'll be playing every week, you should expect to get a decent set of clubs.
Secondly, you need to be honest with yourself about what level of golfer you are - and the level you intend to achieve over the next year or so. If you're a complete beginner, there's no real point buying very expensive clubs, in the hope that somehow the magic will rub off and you'll instantly play like a professional.
At the same time, you don't want to be buying rubbish clubs that will end up getting you annoyed and probably disappear into the back of your garage covered in cobwebs. So you need to set a spending amount that is both realistic and practical determined by the level you'll be playing at and how often you'll be playing.
There are 3 main types of club sets - steel shafts, graphite shafts, and a combination of both steel and graphite shafts. Each of these sets has their own positives and negatives, and it's common to see people with a combination of graphite shafts for their woods and steel shafts for their irons.
My own choice is all graphite, except for the putter. Graphite is lighter than steel, and it doesn't vibrate as much when you hit the ball. For beginning golfers, this is good as it also means the clubs don't vibrate so much when you hit the club into the grass, rather than the ball!
Steel shafts will offer more rigidity - hence the putter being a steel shaft - while graphite shafts offer more "swingability", being lighter and more flexible. I find my graphite woods give me a lot more length on the shot that when I've used steel shaft woods - especially with the driver.
For these reasons, you might find that a combination of steel shafts for the irons and graphite shafts for the woods works best for you. But whichever type of club you choose, make sure you only spend to the level you want to play to, and you'll be enjoying your clubs for years to come.
Mike Jackson runs an online golf equipment store, where you can buy golf clubs, golf balls, Christmas golf gifts, golf bags etc.
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