New Choices and Opportunities with Fairway Woods, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
New Choices and Opportunities with Fairway Woods, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

If you're looking at golf getting back 20 or 30 years, the choices of golf clubs that you have in your bag was fairly limited. It was a driver off the tee or a 3-wood off the fairway, and it was a wooden wood. But now, modern technology, modern advancements, and a few different tweaks to the golf club has made the choices a lot more variable. And actually it's playing into the golfers' hands that the game's becoming easier to play, more enjoyable to play, and certainly less frustrating.

So back in the day, it was a wooden head. It was a steel shaft. It was heavy. The golf club wasn't very lofted - it hit the ball quite low. Modern technology and equipment advances mean that we've now got clubs that have more lofts on them, a lot more weight, low and deep underneath the sole. Much more rounded soles so the club doesn't dig into the floor quite as much. Nice lightweight, long graphite shafts that would encourage you - if you've got relatively slow swing speed, encourage you to swing the club faster and faster into the back of the ball to get underneath the ball, and fly the ball nice and high into the air.

And the different variety of clubs has changed now. So it's not just a 3-wood off the fairway, and then a 2-iron, 3-iron, 4-iron. You've now got options to have fairway woods in your bag - 3-wood, 5-wood, 7-wood, 9-wood, 11-wood - right the way up through to the range.

So it's almost to a position where you can just have woods right the way through your bag. You don't need to worry about having a driver, then fairway woods, then hybrid clubs, then irons, and changing your swing for each different one. The swing can be the same. The approach into the golf ball could be nice and shallow and sweeping. And just let the change of the golf club, let the variety of the golf club, let the golf club do the hard work for you. So you can stand there, make the same smooth, even paced, relaxed swing, and the different lofted, different weight characteristics of the golf club, are going to help you hit the ball the right height and the right distance for the desired shot that you need.

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If you're looking at golf getting back 20 or 30 years, the choices of golf clubs that you have in your bag was fairly limited. It was a driver off the tee or a 3-wood off the fairway, and it was a wooden wood. But now, modern technology, modern advancements, and a few different tweaks to the golf club has made the choices a lot more variable. And actually it's playing into the golfers' hands that the game's becoming easier to play, more enjoyable to play, and certainly less frustrating.

So back in the day, it was a wooden head. It was a steel shaft. It was heavy. The golf club wasn't very lofted – it hit the ball quite low. Modern technology and equipment advances mean that we've now got clubs that have more lofts on them, a lot more weight, low and deep underneath the sole. Much more rounded soles so the club doesn't dig into the floor quite as much. Nice lightweight, long graphite shafts that would encourage you – if you've got relatively slow swing speed, encourage you to swing the club faster and faster into the back of the ball to get underneath the ball, and fly the ball nice and high into the air.

And the different variety of clubs has changed now. So it's not just a 3-wood off the fairway, and then a 2-iron, 3-iron, 4-iron. You've now got options to have fairway woods in your bag – 3-wood, 5-wood, 7-wood, 9-wood, 11-wood – right the way up through to the range.

So it's almost to a position where you can just have woods right the way through your bag. You don't need to worry about having a driver, then fairway woods, then hybrid clubs, then irons, and changing your swing for each different one. The swing can be the same. The approach into the golf ball could be nice and shallow and sweeping. And just let the change of the golf club, let the variety of the golf club, let the golf club do the hard work for you. So you can stand there, make the same smooth, even paced, relaxed swing, and the different lofted, different weight characteristics of the golf club, are going to help you hit the ball the right height and the right distance for the desired shot that you need.