Tiger Woods has won fourteen majors in his professional golfing career, and he will probably take a few more major championship trophies home with him in the future. It is amazing how he only takes 65 to 70 strokes on an average round of golf. People wounder how a couple of skinny clubs can help cause a little ball to go straight and far. It is an amazing science that many people don't know about.
To understand how clubs work, a person needs to know the types of golf clubs there are. An average golfer usually carries a driver and woods. These clubs have large heads that can send the ball far, and these clubs are the longest in the bag. There are also long irons. These clubs are numbered with smaller numbers, and they are designed to send a golf ball a medium distance with a higher trajectory than woods. Short irons and wedges are the smallest clubs in the golf bag. These clubs go a short distance with a higher arch than other clubs. The last club, which is the putter, might be the most important. Putters are flat clubs that are designed to be balanced in a person's hand, while that person tries to roll the ball in the hole. Putters are so important, because they help a person put up scores for holes.
There are many parts to a golf club. Grips have a large importance, because a player needs to feel comfortable when swinging a club. Golf grips are usually rubber or leather, and there are many different brands with groves and holes on them. A shaft of a golf club is very important because it extends from the club head to the grip, and a shaft helps the club swing back and forth steadily with torque on impact. Shafts are made differently depending on preference. Shafts are carbon-fiber or steel, and but carbon-fiber is usually more expensive. Shafts also come in stiff, regular, or firm flexibility, depending on how a person swings. Shafts can help prevent a hook or slice. Club heads are important because they make impact with the ball. Drivers have bigger club heads than irons and wedges so that they have a bigger sweet spot. Irons have heads designed for a high trajectory to land golf balls on the green. Iron heads are also able to dig into the ground during impact. All three parts of a golf club need to be compatible with a person's swing so they can hit the sweet spot every time. The club head also has its own individual parts. It contains a hosel, which connects the club head and the shaft of the golf club. The club head also has a face with groves, a sole, which is the bottom, and the back. Clubs have different degrees of loft, and those are determined by the face's slope from vertical when the club is straight. Putters have no slope and are completely vertical. After the putter, the number of degrees that a club has increases when the size of the club decreases. For example, a five iron has a greater degree of loft than a 6 iron.
Golf clubs are designed to help a player improve their game. Manufacturers and designers have been working hard to make more forgiving clubs with different weights to help different types of golfers. It is still amazing how these simple clubs do so much, but it will still be up to golfers to play well.
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3 comments:
It seems like you know a lot about golf and you probably could have wrote this without the how stuff works website. Or if you don't know a lot about golf than your writing style definitely makes it seem that way. Good job (:
Although i'm not the biggest fan of golf, your post wasnt all all that bad too read. Actaully, it was kind of interesting. You took the boring subject and gave it some style.
Excellent intro paragraph.
Second paragraph is good too, except I don't love that last line: ". . put up scores. . ." Sounds odd to me.
The third paragraph is informative, but is choppy. The sentences are all structured the same and all about the same length. You have gotten A LOT better with this--I think this was just a weak point, when you were focused on content.
I think you mean arc, not arch.
" " GROOVES not groves
well-organized piece.
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