Teaching you how to play well: a few lessons on clubs
Many beginner golfers are often at a loss for basic club specifications such as lie, swing-weight, bounce, etc., and are often unable to tell from these specifications whether or not the club is suitable for use, let alone utilizing the different specifications to select a club and "see" how it will perform. It is often impossible to tell from these specifications whether a club is suitable for use, let alone selecting a club using different specifications and "seeing" how it performs. In the following section, we will introduce some knowledge of clubs.
Clubface Angle
The so-called "Loft" refers to the angle between the club face and the vertical line. This is the angle between the clubface and the vertical line. You can see the numbers 10, 15, etc. on the sole of a wood club, and this is the loft angle. Recently, club designers have adopted a "strong angle" to improve the hitting distance of the irons for golfers with insufficient distance, taking the 7-iron of the different two sets of clubs as an example: the loft of the A set is the common 35, while the loft of the B set adopts the stronger 33 (which can hit a longer distance), so players with insufficient distance can choose the B set to improve their performance. Therefore, golfers who do not have enough distance can choose Group B to improve their scores.
Lie Angle and Face Setback
Lie" refers to the angle of the club neck to the ground when the club is picked up and placed flat. Currently, the lie of all brands of clubs is taken as the highest common denominator, so most golfers can use it; although the traditional design of lie is proportional to height in "standard conditions", recently some brands of mid-to-high handicap clubs have deliberately adopted a higher loft angle setting and utilized the high lie to create a "left pull" when aiming at the ball. However, recently, some mid-to-high handicap clubs are deliberately set with a higher sole angle and utilize the high lie's toe lift to produce a left pull when aiming at the ball (and vice versa for a right putt) to form an "anti-lice" design that counteracts a slice shot. The "offset" is the degree to which the clubface moves back from the centerline of the shaft. The offset can delay the ball to prevent slice, but too much clubface setback will cause slowness and trouble on the ball.