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