| Every good golfer has the ability to control his or her | | | | game roll the ball into the cup. |
| shots. Every good golfer learns that it is one thing to | | | | However, golfers are not limited or restricted to |
| swing a golf club, but it is another thing to know | | | | these three clubs. Golfers get themselves a set of |
| what position the club is in while it is being swung. | | | | two or three, more generally four, but sometimes |
| Well, once you learn the difference between letting | | | | even five, drivers. They carry a set of three or six, |
| your club fall open on the backswing and or keeping | | | | most generally a set of eight, irons. They usually add |
| it closed, square, or in position as you make your | | | | to this outfit a heavy weighted club to get the ball |
| swing, you will begin to play golf. Your shots start to | | | | out of deep grass or sand traps. In addition, the |
| go straighter, and you will begin to play golf as one | | | | above clubs, along with a putter, generally constitute |
| ought to play it if you use each club for the shot or | | | | the set of 14 clubs that a golfer is permitted to use |
| purpose for which it was designed. | | | | in tournament play. |
| 1. A golf club will only do what the player makes it | | | | Now, having such an outfit is a perfect waste of |
| do. | | | | material unless each and every club is swung in the |
| 2. Each club is designed for a specific purpose, and | | | | same way so that the various differences in the |
| only when it is applied to the ball in its true, natural | | | | shapes of the clubs can each perform their |
| state will it produce the effect for which it was | | | | objectives. In other words, golf is an easy game to |
| designed. | | | | play, because the player has a specific club or tool |
| 3. Basically, there are only three clubs in golf: | | | | for each shot or effect that is desired. All he has to |
| 4. The driver shaped so that it drives the ball on a | | | | do is to learn the one basic swing and apply it to |
| low trajectory and is therefore used for distance | | | | each club. |
| shots. | | | | By comparison, the game of tennis is difficult. In |
| 5. The iron, formerly called a lofter, does exactly | | | | tennis, the player has only one club or one racquet, |
| what the name implies it lofts, or lifts the ball. This | | | | the ball is never in the same position it is either high |
| club is used to place the ball into position in certain | | | | or low, in front of him or behind him and to make his |
| spots on the fairway or on the green | | | | shots successfully the tennis player must learn and |
| 6. The putter, which would be better named a roller, | | | | be able to play several different strokes. However, |
| is so designed that it rolls the ball; therefore, it is the | | | | not so the golfer. If he correctly learns the one |
| club used to accomplish the very purpose of the | | | | stroke, he can simply let the club do the work. |