Is a Fairway wood, hybrid or driving iron for you? Here is how you know

While most golf bags start with a driver and a longest fairway wood, it is the club that comes afterwards, where the decisions are made during a fitting.

That club will usually be between 18 or 24 degrees, so that the options of a 5 or 7-wood, 3 or 4 hybrid or 3 or 4 iron are left. The choice of which to put in your bag depends on the optimum descent angle.

Approaching with this group of lofts will be the cause of bogeys or bogey avoidance, and the fastest way to drop your score sides is to prevent Bogeys. Most 5-wood, 3-hybrids and 3-irons are played within a degree of 18 degrees Loft. Seven wood, 4-hybrids and 4-irons are played at around 21-24 degrees Loft.

Each option, assuming that you can hit all three options as well (rarely the case), has its advantages and disadvantages. What makes this part of the bag difficult is that golfers tend to touch every club comparable distances. We can find out the answer for you by watching your descent corner with each club.

Why the descent angle is important

Fitters want to manage the descent angle of the ball. If the descent is too steep, you will not reach your potential for total distance because you get little to no rollout.

On the other hand, if your ball comes in too shallow, you trust too much on the ball that rolls out, which is difficult to predict in fair circumstances, and impossible when you are confronted with any kind of weather or weeks with more rain than the ground can absorb.

The correct answer presents itself fairly quickly in a suitable environment, especially one where we can see your ball in the air and not simulate a hypothetical ball flight.

The argument for a fairway wood or hybrid

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If you play a traditional 4-iron or even a row iron and notice that your ball does not land soft enough to hold greens, we have to look at a larger club with a deeper CG to get your ball higher in the air. When comparing CGS, the CG of Fairway Wood is furthest from the ball, the CG of an iron is the closest and Hybrids CG is somewhere in the middle. In this case, a fitter would like to get a fairway wood or hybrid in your hand.

If a player cannot stand the appearance of a hybrid at the address or he thinks hybrids can be drawings, then a fairway wood is the best option for him. If we can find a hybrid that does not want to convert and remain relatively right, that is a better option over a fairway wood because the shorter shaft we can get in our hands, the simpler the game is.

The argument for a utility -iron

When a player has a lot of club head speed and Highs the ball, that is when a riding iron might be the best answer. With more clubhead speed, more bullet speed and a higher peak height come, so the descent angle is not that critical.

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Bottom Line

If you feel that you give up too many succeeds at approach shots and find yourself behind the greens or have excessively long puts, you might have a club that does not give you the best chance of making low scores.

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