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Golf clubs greatly affect the way you play the game. If you want to make sure that you would be making that killer shot, customized golf clubs might be just what you need. Golf club customization would include fitting your clubs in three different lies, which would be standard, upright and flat to improve your game. Having Golf clubs that are custom-made also lets you select the materials and the grip and also help you in setting your driving range so that you would be getting the most out of your clubs.

You would also be able to select the materials for the club heads and the shafts. This would give you the ability to choose the flexibility you need for your drive and your swing. However, it is important that you consider some things when you have your golf clubs customized. These would be if you play with your left or right hand, if you wear shoes that have flat soles, if you have your arms on your sides, what the distance between the floor and your wrist is, what the size of your gloves is and what your present handicap on an 18-hole green is.

Other questions that they would ask before customizing your clubs would be your accuracy, your driving distance, chipping and putting techniques and your recovery and ball hitting. Additionally, you would need to know how far your ball goes with your 5 iron; if you do any of these more often than the others: hook, straight, draw, fade, slice; what the make and flexibility of your current driver and shaft are; and the type of golf ball you are using.

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yep, quality is really bad because I had to compress it a bunch

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Ok. Here are the basics. A golf club has three parts – the head, the shaft and the grip. A standard set of golf clubs consists of three woods (the Driver, #3, and #5 fairway woods), eight irons (#3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, and PW), and a putter – that’s twelve clubs in all. According to the rules of golf, and we should all play by the rules, you can carry fourteen clubs in your bag, so many golfers add a specialty wood or another iron.

Now, let’s have a look at the different types of clubs.

Drivers & Fairway woods

These clubs are used to hit longer shots. That’s a basic yet apt way to look at it. If a golf hole is a par four or five from tee to green, most Golfers would choose to use a wood.

The driver, or the 1 Wood, has the lowest loft of any golf club. Loft is the angle of the club face that controls trajectory and affects distance. A driver has a loft between 7 and 12 degrees. Better golfers have traditionally favored drivers with less than 10 degrees of loft, which require a lot more skill to hit.

Most golfers also carry a #3 and #5 fairway wood as part of their arsenal. A #3 wood has a loft of 15 degrees, and a #5 wood has a loft of 18 degrees. The higher the golf club number, the higher the loft. The #3 and #5 wood are commonly referred to as fairway woods, because they are most often used during the second shot of play, when you are supposed to be on the fairway.

Hybrids

Hybrids are a recent innovation to golf. A hybrid is a combination of an iron and a wood and is an easier to hit alternative to a long iron. Hybrids are versatile enough to be used in any situation. Hybrids come in a range of four lofts – 16 (#2), 19 (#3), 22 (#4) and 25 (#5) Degrees. Hybrids replace their equivalent number long iron, e.g. a #3 hybrid will replace a #3 iron and a #2 hybrid can be used to replace a #5 fairway wood.

Irons

Irons are generally used for shorter distances and more control than drivers and fairway woods. The closer you are to the green, the higher the iron you will use. A standard set of irons consists of #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8 and #9 and the PITCHING WEDGE (PW). A sandwedge is generally a good option to purchase for shots out of sand traps. The #3 and #4 irons are harder to hit than the higher numbered irons. Many golfers choose to replace the #3 and #4 iron with higher lofted woods or hybrids which are easier to hit than traditional long irons, resulting in comparable distances.

Wedges

Wedges are really just specialty irons. The first wedge is the Pitching Wedge (PW), which is usually between 52 and 56 degrees in loft. The PW is the highest lofted iron in a standard set and lowest loft of the wedges. Lob wedges range from 58 to 64 degrees and are used for close range short and high shots to overcome obstacles close to the green. Wedges are extremely useful for your short game and it is beneficial to keep a selection of them in your bag.

Sand Wedges are another type of wedge and are designed to get you out of the dreaded sand traps. They have a shorter shaft and a more angled face to get under the ball in order to exit a bunker.

Putters

As the adage goes “Drive for show, Putt for dough”. The putter usually gets you in the hole, so it can be assumed, that choosing the right putter is critical to your game. Putters come in various styles and types.: short, belly, long, bent, center-hosel, heel-toe, mallet, and so on. When choosing a putter the main things to consider are the: weighting, balance and feel. Better putters provide alignment aids to help you visualize the line from your ball to the target.

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Recently I have been looking at the website, http://Callawaygolfpreowned.com, just searching through the website checking out the customer reviews to see what exactly people were looking for when they thought of used/preowned Callaway golf clubs. And when you look at those reviews you can clearly see that some are a notch above the rest, well three that is. Also surprisingly enough they were all drivers. So what are these clubs?

First off and front running at the top is the Callaway FT-5 driver, a massive 50 grams of discretionary weight has been created using a Carbon Fiber Body – creating the OptiFit Weighting System that produces three center of gravity configurations: Draw, Neutral and Fade, enabling golfers to choose a combination to best suit their individual game. The larger, more robust CT/VFT Titanium cup face is designed to the legal limit, as defined by the USGA Characteristic Time test, resulting in increased ball speed, distance and forgiveness – even on miss-hits. If you were to give an average of the comments posted on this club is that it gives a great shot off the tee, the distance received is excellent, it even added a few yards some golfers, even more because of its design there are also all around compliments on the accuracy achieved using it. A great confidence builder.

Secondly we have the Callaway FT-i Driver, with the revolutionary 460cc Complete Inertial Design, this driver pushes the boundaries of shape, of our imagination, of the rules. By positioning weight to the extreme corners of the clubhead, the FT-i Driver produces the highest Moment of Inertia of any driver on the market today, resulting in unparalleled forgiveness. The largest, most robust CT/VFT Titanium cup face designed from Callaway golf. This is one of reviews from one the most skeptical customers; this is a great driver-the key for me is to swing very easy and hold the club with very little pressure. I tend to hook or draw the ball. I bought the 9 degree stiff and the ball goes straight 250 yrds 7 out of 10 times i hit it. I did not gain distance over my other Callaway driver from 2005 but i gained a ton of accuracy. This person only gained accuracy and some consistency but what about those who got both accuracy and distance along with accuracy. Need I say more?

Last but definitely not least is the Callaway 460cc driver this all-titanium, is designed for longer and straighter tee shots. Callaway Golf engineers incorporated everything they know about all-titanium drivers into the new X460 Driver and X460 Tour Driver. At 460cc, the new drivers combine a CT/VFT Face, Consistent Alignment Sole and patented Callaway Golf technologies. That combination of technology makes the X460 and X460 Tour the longest all-titanium drivers Callaway Golf has ever made. Now read this comment; 30 years ago I played to a 1 handicap. The last 10 my handicap would have been 7-10! The X460 with an Aldila NV65 shaft Stiff has changed my game and now the drive is straight and long. Almost a dozen times in 2008 I drove the 13th hole at Devil’s Thumb in Delta, Colorado which is 345 yards. My new purchase is a set of FT irons with the Callaway stiff graphite shaft. Too bad–in time for cold weather!! Witnesses are available… And this person is 71yrs old.

Now after reading all this, tell me is not Callaway golf great.

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I got a taylormade burner driver and I lent it to my brother. Well long story short he hit the ball incorrectly and left a dent in the heel of the club, right where the bottom curves to the club face. Does this effect the clubs integrity? how do I fix it?
I was incorrect when I say hit the ball incorrectly. I should have said hit the ball when he should not have ( ie hitting a large decorative stone)
I was incorrect when I say hit the ball incorrectly. I should have said hit the ball when he should not have ( ie hitting a large decorative stone)

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