this is Golf Club explained for beginners this is a driver the driver is the biggest headed Club in the bag it can be a maximum of 460 C cubic cm The Loft ranges from anything from 7° up to 12° 7° for very far swing speeds and people who hit very high up on the ball much like a long driver a professional will play between 8 and 10° and then for people with slower swing speeds you're going to find 10 to 12° to help get the ball up with a slower swing speed the shaft is always almost always now graphite they come in different stiffnesses the stiffness will depend on the tempo of your swing and the speed of your swing my swing is about 115 mph so I have an X stiff shaft so you get extra stiff toward the top range you get stiff below that a little bit more flexible you get regular then more flexible then you get light regular and then you get a senior Flex which is very flexible and for much slower swing speeds and then the slower swing speed all the way down to what they call ladies Flex next in the bag you have Fairway Woods why do I go from driver to Fairway Woods because these are the next longest clubs in the bag we started at three-wood this is a very difficult club for beginners to hit the reason I say that is that a driver you're teeing up very high a 3-wood you can tee up very high but the club face is very small and you're only getting another like four or 5 deges of LOF compared to your driver and a very long shaft the longer the shaft the longer the ball goes but the less control you have over it especially with lower Loft and smaller faces like this so a 3-wood not really advisable for beginners it's also made a similar way to a driver it's got a big head it's got probably some weights in the bottom it's going to do everything possible to help you get the ball in the air but hitting a 3-wood off the Fairway off the ground is a very difficult thing to do and I actually don't recommend anything below 17° for a newer player which moves us more toward the fivewood so the fivewood higher number higher Loft 3 5 this one is probably going to be 16 17 18° and you can hit this one more off the ground and hit it off the te as well these Fairway Woods all have the same shafts it's all graphite the difference is the length of the shaft gets shorter as you go from 3 to 5 to 7 so 3w is is longer than a fivewood and a fivewood is longer than a seven wood which in general a shorter shaft also means more control so that's why fivewood and seven wood are much more conducive to beginner play than a 3-wood and even a driver if you do like a driver I would highly highly recommend starting with a 11 12 13° driver five Woods can be very helpful for a beginner player but if you're really looking for a fairway wood regardless of your handicap whether you're a beginner or someone who's been playing a long time the seven wood is the one I recommend the most this is a Tacomo 7even wood and let me tell you something this is a cheat code Club it doesn't matter what you say this is one of the easiest clubs to hit this thing's got probably 20 21 22 degrees of Loft it's got this big body it's got this nice fat sole it interacts with the turf really nicely and this club with a shorter shaft also graphite and higher Loft shorter shaft higher Loft more control it's going to get you nice high shots in play almost every time the next thing we have in the bag are hybrids now a hybrid is a replacement for an iron they only really come mostly in 2 3 4 5 hybrid you do get six seven and eight but they're very Niche majority of Manufacturers are going to have a three four and five hybrid the reason they made hybrids is that to hit a traditional long iron you've got very low Loft a very thin sole it's very difficult to get the technique right as a beginner player high handicapper to get that ball Airborne to swing without trying to get it airborne and giving it extra Loft and with a heavy steel shaft that's a very difficult Club to hit a four five or three iron so what they did is they created a club that's a mix between a wood and an iron it's got the same low Loft but remember they start three four and five that means a three hybrid will have similar Loft to a three iron like 20° which is still pretty easy to hit especially when you put a fat booty behind it if you don't have the fat booty and you have a three iron made of just steel iron with a steel shaft that's difficult to hit but when you add a fat body like this with a bouncy face made of probably steel or titanium that's going to help you get the ball up and they also give you graphite shafts in hybrids why because it's so light compared to Steel that you can get more swing speed to get the ball up in the air without manipulating the ballf flight that's why hybrids are very recommended if you struggle with your long irons the next thing we have our iron sets ion sets come in multiple flavors super game improvement ions this is a 101 te from Tacomo these are hollowback irons these are designed specifically to help people get the ball in the air even when they misstrike the ball all over the club face it's designed with a hollow interior to make the ball spring further even on offset CER hits the soil is a bit fatter than most other iron sets that still helps to get the ball in the air as it interacts with the turf in a way that's not digging into the ground like something thinner it hits the turf and keeps the club moving hoping to get the ball in the air for you the aim of the game for super game improvement irons for beginners to help you more and give you a helping hand to enjoy golf in the beginning next what you have is a normal cavity back what you'll find in golf clubs is that a cavity back and a muscle back or blade a muscle back will have all the steel directly in the back and the cavity back will have all that steel too except they move some from the middle of the face or the middle of the back and move it around the edge that's called perimeter weighting and they'll move even more weight down here to increase the Senter of gravity so that you can get the ball Airborne more another thing you'll notice about cavity backs is that they have a bit of a grind here on the front versus Less on a blade and a thicker sole on the cavity back versus a very thin sole on the blades the blades are very difficult to hit clubs for beginners it's nice to know about them nice to perve over them nice to think wow they look so beautiful but you know what these are reserved for people who hit the ball in The Sweet Spot seven or eight times out of 10 for you you may want to focus on super game improvement ions or a game improvement cavity back like this that helps you get the ball in the air helps you when you hit the ball in the wrong place not on The Sweet Spot helping you to get more distance and still stay on target if you miss The Sweet Spot on a blade it hurts like hell and you don't want to play golf anymore believe me I've been there then you get a players cavity back these clubs the normal players cavity back have very little offset whereas the super game improvement ions seem a little bit closed if I were you as a beginner I would hold off on the players cavity backs and players muscle backs anything saying players muscle back blade tour don't play those clubs you want anything that's got game improvement in it anything Hollow anything deep cavity back those are going to be your best bet to start enjoying the game quicker get your scores down and then once you've been playing a couple years of course you're going to want to upgrade your equipment and you're going to look at something a little bit more higher grade but for now those your best bet iron sets come with steel shafts nowadays you can get them with graphite they've got Advanced Technologies now for graphite mostly they're going to be steel now you also get you get stiffnesses that vary from regular to stiff to extra stiff to double extra stiff if you're not swinging too quickly and you may be a beginner you may want to look at something like graphite shafts they do put graphite shafts in some ions nowadays iron sets generally come from four iron down to pitching wedge you can get five iron to pitching wedge six iron to pitching wedge then you can fill up your bag with like hybrids or Fairway Woods above a six iron or five iron but generally you're going to find most that's coming with four iron down to pitching wedge what does that mean it means that the lowest Loft will be four iron and the highest Loft will be pitching wedge these clubs will go less distance as you go from four 5 6 7 8 9 P four ion goes longer than a five ion which goes longer than a six ion which goes longer than a seven ion which goes longer than an eight which goes longer than a nine and a pitching wedge there's generally about 3 to 4° between each ion so from 4 to 5 is 3° from 9 to pitching wedge generally a 4° difference in Loft what is the loft loft is the angle between the shaft and the club face that angle from there to there that is going to be on like a pitching wedge probably about 45° as you go into longer clubs you're going to see that the Loft gets much flatter another feature of iron sets is that when you go from four iron down to pitching wedge the length of the club changes a lot so you can see the four iron is a lot longer than the pitching wedge when you go from four iron down to pitching wedge each Club progressively gets shorter to end at the pitching wedge there like in a linear fashion you get forged irons and you get cast iron a forged iron like these tacos are made from one piece of Steel that's smashed into shape beautiful you can bend it you can do anything you want without it breaking a cast iron is a little bit cheaper generally and also mainly made in cavity back or super game improvement ions and that's when they pour into a mle and it sets these ones can't be bent that much maybe bent once and then the second time you bend them back it cracks and breaks Forge clubs are just a bit softer and cast clubs just feel a bit firmer not really much difference if you're a beginner player you want to just get something the most forgiving which is generally a hollow club or a deep cavity back either cost or forged you're going to upgrade one day I promise so expect to upgrade when you get addicted to the game but to get addicted to the game get the easiest to hit clubs by trying a few and don't listen to dingleberries on the internet telling you to start with blades cuz those people are perennial 34 handicaps mostly ions go from four down to pitching wedge then you get the next layer of clubs which are wedges these wedges generally have the Loft written on the bottom of the club the standard way to put your set together is to have a for to pitching wedge and then definitely a sandwich and a sandwich can either be called a s or a 56° this one is going to be used perfectly for the name sand from the sand you're going to be hitting lofted shots with this and this club is specifically made for sand and for higher lofted shots you want one of these in your bag 100% you can purchase these separate or if you get a set that has almost everything in it most of the time it's going to go to four to pitching wedge and give you a sand wedge now the interesting thing to know as a beginner is that your pitching wedge may have a 45° angle of Loft so it's 45 that one has 56 remember all the ions in the set have between three and 4° the difference between clubs of 3° and 4° lofts in your ions gives you a distance difference between each ion of probably about 8 to 11 or 12 yards now that's a big difference on a small amount of Loft Just 4 deg or 3° so you can imagine from a 56° wedge to a 46° pitching wedge that's 10 10° so 10° what does that equate to maybe slower swing speed you're probably looking at 20 to 30 yard difference between your two wedges and that's where the thing called a gap wedge or an approach wedge comes into play now a gap wedge can be anything from 48° to 52° or even be called an a wedge but the name you'll often see is a wedge G wedge gap wedge approach wedge a for approach G for Gap 48° 52° 50 degree now you can decide pretty easy way if you're going to use the same manufacturer is to go pitching wedge Loft and Sand Wedge Loft what's the difference of the The two clubs and divide it by two so let's say it's 46 and 56 now you want like a 51° gap wedge which is difficult to find so you're going to go 50 or 52 whichever is going to fill that gap for you nicely as a beginner you're going to see the pros and a lot of low handicaps and cool people using a 60° wedge a lot this is a very technical Club this is a very difficult Club often you'll find the driver and the 60° the top and bottom of the bag are going to be the most difficult for beginners to play and high handicappers there's a lot that goes on in a 60° wedge there's grind there's bounce there's the size of the sole there's the weight so I don't really recommend a 60° for most beginners it's a cool Club but it has a specific purpose and can't really be used as often as people like to use it because I think they could get better results not using it so before we move on to puts there are very easy to hit sand wedges like the Cleveland s wedge now this is a kind of game improvement Sand Wedge that's specifically made to help you to stop duffing your chips you can see how fat the soil is and it's used for sand and for chipping around the greens making it much easier to get the ball out this is an option for you if you're getting started and you actually can keep this club for a very long time until you want to upgrade to a more blade like wedge if you suck at chipping you get such a thing as a chipper this is made exactly like a poter except you're not allowed to have a putter grip and it's got an angle face probably about the same Loft as an 8 iron or nine iron and you just hit it like a putt like that and it doesn't it doesn't Duff as much it's got a nice fat soil use your putting stroke and this can save a lot of people's chipping games next we have a putter this is a blade this is a bird dog that I make this is made of Damascus steel very expensive piece very very soft now a blade putter is very thin and it's quite long and it's a lot more difficult to align correctly this is more like a putt for someone with feel and Artistry like a magic wand but you'll find that this helps the stroke that goes on a more Arc fashion a more Arc stroke you can't really do this one with a straight back and through stroke very difficult the next is a mallet now this one you might not call a full Mallet this one might be a compact Mallet or something like that and and you'll find these are very often swan neck or double Bend shafts generally you're going to find on a blade putter you're actually not going to find so much this kind of a shaft which just bends back once you often find the I think it's called a plumber's neck so it goes down bends 90° and another 90 with a mallet most of the time these P these Putters are designed to go straight back and through of course you can't completely eliminate the arc but these ones are made more for Less arcing Strokes often more mechanical or engineering style players less feel based they can be very forgiving on the face whereas a blade putter can be like the golf clubs a lot less forgiving than a cavity back so this one very often is something that's easier to align as well you know this is not a very big one but you can see this color and that length of the back of the club really helps you to align your eyes to your putting line the other one is a high Moi putter so we've got a spider here this is a tailor made spider and there's a lot of weight throughout this head and a lot of that weight can push from the back so you don't have to hit the ball as hot with the blade poter you're often hitting it a little firmer cuz they can feel a bit lighter and then on the same putt you feel like you're hitting it a bit softer with one of these high Moi Putters because it just generates more energy from the back with a kind of gentler stroke a smoother stroke they often have inserts on these Putters and on mallets there's often inserts on the faces whereas in the blade Putters you don't find inserts that much besides in few models they mainly M steel these ones are very easy to align you can see the alignment Aid on the back here these this is a very simple one some are very intricate and you'll find these ones also come with these kind of double neck shafts like that these are very forgiving of the face and can be a very nice thing to have but only if it really suits your stroke so my recommendation for PS is go have someone look at how you hit a putt go get them to teach you how to putt and then you can use the putter that's for your stroke it's very important you don't want to be a straight back and through putter with a blade and you don't want to be a big Arc stroke putter with a mallet very often these are face balance so the face points to the sky whereas a blade is very tow down and then you might find the Mallet might be in between that just a little bit of what they call toe flow so it's not quite toe balance it's not quite face balance it still hangs just a little bit but clearly not as Extreme as a blade