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Golf requires many kinds of shots drives, long approach shots, short approach shots, pitches, chips, sand shots, putts and a variety of so-called trouble shots. To play all these shots you can choose, per the rules of golf, up to 14 clubs to have in your bag. Of those 14 clubs which are the most important?

By far the most frequent shot is a putt. For an average golfer, the putter is used more than twice as much as any other club. If a golfer shoots a score of 100, 35%- 40% of those strokes will be putts. So based on shear numbers, the putter is the most important club. It certainly is the one club that can make up for bad shots very quickly.

For better golfers, the driver is used the next most oftena possible 14 times from the tee, or roughly 12-20% of the time depending on ability level. That first shot from the tee sets the tone for the hole, so that makes it a very important club. A good drive makes the rest of the shots on that hole easier. A bad drive means …well trouble. Making sure you have a driver that you have confidence in is critical to good golf.

Having a back-up to your driver is also very important. For those holes where length is not critical, having a club that you know will put you in the fairway is just smart golf. This could be a three wood, a five wood, a hybrid or a 5 iron. It’s more important to know you have a club in your hand that will find the fairway.

For beginners, who have a hard time hitting the green in a regulation number of strokes, the wedges may be the second most used category of clubs. On a good day a beginner may hit 1-4 greens so they spend a lot of strokes around the green (15-20). Practicing with a wedge from 25 yards and in will take strokes off a beginners score very quickly. In fact, at any level having confidence in your wedges makes golf a lot easier.

The remaining strokes in a round are spread among the rest of the set. It is likely that no one club will be used more than a few times. So in terms of frequency of use the putter, driver and wedges are clearly used the most frequently with the rest of the clubs bringing up the rear.

On the other hand, the importance of a club has a lot to do with it’s effect on our games. A club that has the potential to cause problems (strokes) must be given added weight. The more difficult a club is to hit the more likely that it may cause disaster. The driver, the long irons, and fairway woods are the most likely culprits to cause that errant shot that never is heard from again. Good bye ball.

It’s no coincidence that these problem clubs are also the longest clubs in the set. We can all agree that the longer the club, the harder to hit. As our abilities improve we can begin to take advantage of what the longer clubs offer (distance) but to help our games now, finding forgiving versions of these clubs is a priority. Thankfully, we have many new possibilities with higher lofted drivers, fairway woods and the new hybrid clubs.

The bottom line is confidence. Build a club set that has clubs that you have trust in. Knowing you have a favorite club, or clubs that you can hit consistently will make the game more fun and give you something to fall back on when your swing goes south. I guess the you could say the most important club is the one you have the most confidence in…no matter what it is.

Rick Hart is a long time golfer and owner of Golf Club Revue where he puts the spotlight on golf clubs.
http://www.golf-club-revue.com

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Every person is happy when they hear the word discount. Discount means that the object they are buying is not going to cost full price, so they in turn get a price that saves them money. Discount golf clubs can be very important to a golfer. Some golf club sets can cost a few hundred dollars, and with the right discount in place a person can save a great deal of money.

So how can a person find discounts? Well, there are a number of ways to get discounts. One place you may look, is in your local paper for coupons that will give you discounts on golf clubs. This method however can be limited on your location and the possibility that you have no sports stores and such. Another popular way is to look for online coupons codes and promotions for golf clubs that the retailer might have. Some coupons might be “Get 20% off on all Callaway golf clubs this week”, and others could be “Buy a Wilson Driver and get a complimentary Putter”. Using search engines to find discounts has become quite popular also. You can type in a phrase and a list of matches will come up. Try “reduced price golf clubs” in yahoo search and you will notice 576,000 matches. Out of 576 thousand matches you are bound to find at least 1 discount offer that will make you smile. Usually, the higher the price the larger the discount. A store will not often sell a set of clubs that is already cheap, at a cheaper price. The most common way to find discounts is probably the “walk-in”. This refers to when you got to a store to buy some golf clubs and then suddenly you notice a discount sign. The discount sign then reinforces your confidence to buy the set. This, however, may sometimes be a clever trick.

It is true that there are many different types of discounts, but many of them can be fake. A fake discount is a discount that really does not save you money, but creates the illusion of it. Some are familiar with this technique, while others have no idea it exists. This is usually not done among large retailers as it would be bad for business, because they are so widely known. A smaller golf store will sometimes put up a discount sign, along with stickers on all the objects just to make them seem like they are offering a good deal. For example, “Wilson Drivers marked down from $89.99 to $59.99″, although they have always been $59.99. This will create the illusion that if the customer doesn’t get it now it may not be available at that price again. This is also done online, but in a more sneaky manner. An online retailer may offer a great price on a set of clubs that seems dramatically reduced in price, but they can make that up in the shipping price. As we all know, shipping price varies from place to place and the weight of the package. Most customer are not certified postal workers (UPS, Fed-Ex, etc.), so they will have no clue if they are being ripped of on the price or not. Of course there are signs of this, but the websites, that know what they are doing, will not be easy to spot.

So instead of going out and buying the first discounted set of golf clubs you see, take some time with your purchase. Ask the cashier questions and find out everything you can, they probably aren’t fond of questioning, but that’s their job. A number of websites will tell you where to get good deals, on the golf club set you are going to buy, so don’t hesitate to use the World Wide Web, its there to help.

Timothy Gorman is a successful Webmaster and publisher of Golf-Swing-Improvement.com. He provides more golf swing tips, putting tips and discount golf clubs that you can research in your pajamas on his website.

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