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Beginners Golf Tips – Picking the Correct Club from Your Bag

There’s no easy answer – to start with you will need to check out the beginners golf tips before you play and take a “best guess”. Some guidance is provided below but experience, hitting on the driving range, observation and basic trial and error will also give you practical information on your personal performance and preferences.

Notice the results you get when hitting with different clubs hit and adjust your choices accordingly. Distance performance for the different clubs is designed in by golf club makers. The main design factors are: the “loft” of the club face and the length of the club shaft. This makes for a regular distance interval between the clubs in a set. A longer iron will hit further and a club face with greater loft will result in a higher ball flight.

Beginners Golf Tips – Clubs are Sequential

The clubs in a set are sequential in terms of how far they will hit so as a guide: a three iron will hit ten to fifteen yards further than a four iron which will hit ten to fifteen yards further than a five iron and so on.

Pick the right golf club – weather conditions

Another factor you will need to bear in mind when choosing a club is weather conditions for instance: if there is a gale of wind blowing straight toward you then you will need more of a club to hit the same distance. Vice versa obviously applies if the wind is from behind – play with less club.

Beyond the realm of beginners golf tips, some little experience will teach all you need to know when choosing the right club. And of course as you gain experience and grow in skill your choices will evolve accordingly.

Beginners Golf Tips – An Extreme Solution..

One extreme solution is demonstrated in this story….

“About 20 years ago as I started playing this wonderfully challenging game I was playing with my brother-in-law, Mike, and my brother, Pete, at Shortwood pay as you play course. We started badly at the first hole. My brother and I went out of bounds on the right and Mike, who started left handed went out of bounds on the left!! We gradually improved – in as much as we kept our golf balls in play more often than out of play. None of us played well. In fact we played consistently inconsistent. Mike was gettting more and more frustrated as he could not hit 2 good shots in a row. He tried every club from every angle. He even thought about playing right handed. But after hacking around for 13 holes he had had enough. He decided that only one club in the bag gave him the consistency of straight hitting – the putter. He proceeded to play the rest of the round with this one club. Interestingly, from there on he did as well as any of us!!”

You’ll always get beginners golf tips and advice from others who you play with – all golfers have come through this stage and most will be glad to offer their collected wisdom.

Beginners golf tips are all very well but sometimes the obvious thing to do is to observe more experienced players and see which clubs they pick in certain situations – don’t regard this as gospel though – remember that relative lack of experience may make the choice different for you.