Hi, I’m Coach Shayan. Welcome back to my YouTube channel today. We’ll be talking about the golf clubs in your bag. And when do you know what club to use?
That’s one of the most common questions I get asked by my students, which are mostly all beginner golfers. And hopefully one of you is probably panicked because you might’ve been invited to join a group of people that wants to play, or you’re doing a charity tournament, or someone’s invited you and your panicking because you have no idea what you’re about to get yourself into.
And your binge watching a bunch of YouTube videos. So, here’s one on what the club in your bag actually means. Let’s get started with the first one that a lot of you would probably know, even if you don’t know golf, cause you’ve done putt, putt or mini golf or whatever.
This is called the putter.
This is the club that you would use when you are on the green. What is the green?
The really, really, really fine grass on here. This is the green. So, you use your putter.
When the ball stops moving, you use your putter, and you try and get the ball in the hole. That is what your putter is for. Okay. You can also use the putter and what we call the fringe, which is this little patch of grass. That’s not as thin as the green grass, but it’s a little bit bigger. Okay? So that’s where you use your putter. You know that you’ll be fine. You’ll watch other people do it. Okay. The part where you get intimidated or scared by is all of these clubs in the middle, you’ll see a bunch of numbers. You’ll see some letters, you’ll see a random degree. And that is where the panic starts. So, let’s get the ones that have the P N D L and my this in some people’s bag will also be an S this is my sandwich, which says 56 degrees on it.
Okay.
And then the other one, the P is called the pitching wedge.
And the L is called the law budge. But in people’s bags, they have all kinds of different. There might be a U. There might be a G don’t worry. These are the ones where your ball. When you need the ball to go really high in the sky, you needed to go over sand over water, any object or obstacle you have in front of you. You need this ball to go very high, as close to the hole as possible is when you use the L the P the S the S is called a sand wedge. If you have an S make sure you grab that, that’s usually the most, uh, the most common club, a beginner golfer will use for the ball to go nice and high.
So not a sandwich, but a sand wedge. Okay. So, the S that’ll be your best friend when you’re out here, as well as your P or your pitching wedge. Your P also is a club where you use anywhere around the green to get close to the hole. Okay? When and why, and what is a difference in what happens? So, if you come closer, you’ll see my S my sandwich, my 56-degree club. It’s almost like the club face is facing the sky. It’s really, really high up there.
If you look at my P my piece a little bit flatter.
So, what does that mean? The flatter, the club face is the further the ball usually goes the more open, like facing the sky. The ball will go nice and high. So, if I was to use my S my S will take my ball nice and high. And the closed club faces, my ball goes low and a roll, and it goes far. So that’s what all of your wedges mean. Okay. So if you’re 30 yards of your clothes, you have to remember, am I going over an obstacle? If I’m not grabbing your pee and you keep on chugging and you keep going with your P all right, next, let’s talk about these guys right over here. These are called your irons.
They go anywhere from nine, eight, seven, six, five, and then there’s usually a four and a three.
I don’t carry those because I don’t use those clubs. And if you’re a beginner golfer, you don’t need to as well, but let’s grab your nine and your five to show you the biggest difference. Two things. You’ll notice, first of all, the length of the club, okay? My nine is much shorter than my five. So, it will be nine, eight, seven, six, and five. That’s the pecking order of the height, the length of the clubs.
Then if you come much closer, you will be able to see that my nine is a little bit more, as we refer to it has more loft or facing more towards the sky. Then my five does, my five is quite flat. So, the fact that my club face is flat, which I told you earlier, just think the ball will go much further. It gives you more distance. If it has more loft or it’s facing more towards the sky, then that means it’s going to go a little bit higher and shorter. So, for more distance, you need the club face to be flatter, and you need the club to be longer. Okay?
So those are your irons.
So, for example, if I am 150 yards out to the hole, I will grab like my five irons. If I’m a hundred yards away, I’ll grab my nine irons. Okay. So that’s what we have over here for our irons. And then, then we have these clubs over here, which get bigger and bigger, and people get very overwhelmed with it. So, the biggest one with the biggest head is your driver. It’s very long, and it has a big, chunky head. Okay. Then compared to me have a seven wood or like seven hybrids.
So, what happens is, if you look at the difference, look at the length difference and look at the club, head difference. Massive. You can just see one’s a big birth though. One is a big guy. One is a little one.
So the difference, here we go. Let me tell you really, really quick, which one you use, where? So, the big one is where people will usually put a tee in the ground, off the tee box. When they first start and hit the big one. It’s very, very hard to hit a driver if you’re new to golf. So, if it’s your first time playing, I wouldn’t even touch this. Just made rest in peace in your bag. There it goes. See, you never, and I would hit these little ones. These are called hybrids, and some are woods.
So, these ones will help you hit the ball far, but you won’t make as many mistakes because they’re much easier to hit as they’re shorter. Okay. So really quick recap, you have the ones with the big heads and you should start with a hybrid. This one’s a seven would, there might be a five. And how do you know?
You just pull them out and whatever you feel comfortable with you go there over here. It says five. Not sure if you can see that, but that says five.
And my seven would, it does not tell you that it’s a seven would, but that’s okay. So, if you’re borrowing clubs, I would try these ones first. Then I would go to my irons, which we spoke about. It goes from five, all the way down to a nine. Don’t worry about three and four. Don’t use three and four beginners. Golfers don’t even touch them.
Okay. And then we had all of these fancy little letters, which were like a P and L and my 56 is usually an S. So you’re best friends for these. These are your S and your P your nice and high gets a nice and close to the hole. Your P there’s no obstacles. Keep using your P. If there’s no obstacles or objects in front of you, it will help you a lot. And then the golden boy, the putter, which everyone has to have in order to play, that’s what we have.
So, you need to make sure you have 14 clubs in your bag. If you’re boring clubs, I’m pretty sure they’ll have 14. They won’t have more than that, but now, you know exactly what to use and when to use them to start the game in the middle of the game, halfway close to the hole, and then to get the ball in the hole. And there we have it. I hope that really helps. If you have any questions at all, make sure to leave them in the comments below. I’m always looking at the comments, making sure everything’s answered for everyone.
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