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Popular golf influencer Paige Spiranac is back with another one of her weekly “Beginner’s Guide to Starting Golf” videos.
This week, she explains the various gold club names and other terminology that all beginning golfers need to know before they hit the course for the first time.
“What are the names of all of the different golf clubs? What golf terminology do you need to know when first starting golf?” she writes in the description to her latest golf tutorial video. “Today I’m going through all of the essentials so you can sound like a pro your first time out!”
“So, we’re going to start with the wedges first,” Paige Spiranac begins this week’s “Beginner’s Guide to Starting Golf” video. “So, a wedge is a club that has more loft to it. So it starts from the wedges, works to the irons, then it goes to the fairway wood, sometimes hybrids, then it goes driver, putter.
“And so with the wedges, as you can see, it has more loft to it, and so you use this club when you want to get it higher in the air, a little bit more spin, and it’s going to go shorter as well.
“When we’re looking at the club, this is the club face this [she shows the club face], this the hosel [points to the hosel]. Don’t want to hit the hosel. And then you have, uh, the shaft here {shows shaft]. There’s different flexes in the shaft. So you can have a regular flex or a stiff flex.
“Yes, I know a lot of things about golf sounds really dirty when you’re talking about it.
“So you got your stiff shaft, and then you have the golf grip here [shows grip]. And so, you’re going to hold on to the golf grip and that is how the golf club looks. That is the basic setup.
“So every club has like a hosel, it has a shaft, and it has a grip. The club heads are what changes. They also get longer too.
“So a wedge is going to be shorter than every iron. So it increases in length with the longer clubs. So, ‘Wow, Paige that’s really stupid.’ Yeah, of course it increases with length with the longer clubs, you idiot.’ What I’m trying to say is when you’re trying to hit it farther, the length of the shaft will be longer.
“See, I told you guys it’s just dirty all around, but you’ll get used to that when you play more golf,” Paige Spiranac repeated with a chuckle.
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“Next, we’re going to move into our irons,” Spiranac continued. “Again, as you can see from the club face and the loft of it, the wedge was here [demonstrates different lofts], this is a nine iron and it’s here. It is longer than the wedge, as you can see. So since it is longer, it’s going to go further. So you can remember that as well.
“So this is going to go higher in the air. It’s going to go shorter, the wedge. The nine iron is going to go a little bit lower and it’s going to go a little bit farther.
“We’ll then compare my nine iron to my five iron. My five iron is my longest iron in the bag. So as you can see there’s very little loft on this club, and the length compared to the nine iron is quite a bit longer. My nine iron, for example, goes about 130 yards and my five iron goes about 180 yards. So you can see the increase with the length of the clubs compared to the distance that it travels.
“One thing that is very important: that there is a max of clubs that you can carry in your bag. You can only have 14 clubs. So you can’t exceed 14, but you can have less. So if you only like 12, 13, whatever, it may be you can do that, but you just can’t have more than 14.
“If you tee off in a tournament and you have more than 14 clubs, you actually get penalized for it. I know we’re talking about the basics and we’ll get in the rules one day, but the rules of golf are absolutely insane. They are crazy, but all you need to remember for right now is no more than 14 golf clubs in your bag.”
Got all that? Good.