www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

There are two types of golfers. Those that are always changing or updating their equipment and those whose equipment looks like dinosaurs while others are classic. In each of these types, there are two other types - those who keep changing because there is too much cash and they know not what else is there to do and those who are intrigued by engineering and wanted to take advantage of it to improve their golf life. Then there are those are are already playing a strong game and dare not or feel no need to change because they are so proficient with their weapons or those who really needs a change but refuse to thinking that they should not splurge without consideration to people in the golf industry that needs to feed their family. In the entire golf bag, the club that really splits people in the middle is the golf hybrid. Golf hybrids were available long before the car industry started the journey. They took the best of both worlds - elements in the fairway woods and irons and inco...

Irons are the bread and butter clubs. They used to give you 3-9, PW and SW. With the advent of the hybrid the longer irons like the 3 & 4 are more or less obsolete in some cases. If you walk in to a golf shop today you will easily find combo golf clubs in a bag. Usually they now come with the 3 & 4 in hybrids instead of traditional irons. This normally happens in the "Super Game Improvement" category. Meanwhile, some low handicappers prefer sharp looking more playable irons with less directional help which are less forgiving and found in blade like irons with little or no cavity behind or in forged irons (called Players' irons). Other single digit players may still prefer friendlier ones. Irons that are in between are the Game Improvement types which are mostly used. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dG9hb3_blo It is most important that you are equipped with the right set of irons which when fitted well with your game is likely to last for quite some time. I...