Selecting The Right Golf Club For Every Shot There are various aspects to playing golf. On the highest level, there is yourself and there is your equipment. There is only one thing that you can do about yourself and that is improve it by right thought and practice. However, it is very much simpler to change your apparatus. Needless to say, you ought to purchase the best equipment that suits you. This means buying your golfing equipment from an expert who can see what you require. Once you have the best apparatus - golf clubs and balls - that you are able to afford, you have to learn how to use them. Learning how to use your golfing apparatus well involves practice, but also understanding which shot each club is best for. This is arguably more vital than purchasing the best clubs that you can afford, because even if you have the best clubs in the world, using a putter when you ought to be using an iron will be most harmful to your game. This information comes with experience, naturally and you can substitute for knowledge by getting in a good caddy, but truly, you should know for yourself as well. This means coming second in hundreds of games against an opponent, but you do not learn much by playing someone less able than yourself. This is where enthusiasm or love of the game comes in. You have to be able to put up with losing often in the early days and this is very hard for a competitive person. Enthusiasm and determination will carry you through this early learning period, although hopefully you will learn something new from each game you play all your life. Here follows a bit of broad common sense concerning choosing the right club for the beginner. The novice golfer is almost never skilled, obviously, so hitting the ball too hard is rarely a problem. Getting around corners or obstacles is also beyond the ability of the novice, therefore distance is the priority and that means using the heaviest golf clubs until you get within easy range of the green. When you are within 50 yards of the green, you can make some attempt at choosing the right club for the shot. When on the green, it is fairly common knowledge to use a putter. If you drop into a sand bunker on the way to the green, the sand wedge appears the obvious choice. The name is the give-away here. If you are playing with decent people, not decent golfers, they will normally be all to glad to help you decide on the right club, until you start winning. If they won't advise you, play with someone else. After all, golf is a game and it is supposed to be enjoyable. You will soon learn the essentials of what works best for you and you will spend the rest of your life refining the knowledge you learned in the first couple of months of becoming addicted to the wonderful game of golfing.
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