Wood
A club used for long shots that is made from metal or wood.
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The 4-wood is an even more friendly piece of equipment but its 18-degree loft means you start to lose distance. It is ideal, though, for tee shots to narrow fairways, or fairway blows where the lie is none too favorable.
Wood
A club which can be made of wood or metal that has a large head and is used for shots requiring greater distance Usually a numbered set of or more starting with the driver and proceeding to the wood
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Wood
A type of club where the head is generally bulbous in shape except for the clubface. Named because the head was originally made of wood, although almost all are now metal.
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Wood: Clubs made of wood. They are made in varying sizes and thicknesses for different ways of hitting the ball.
Worm Burner: A poor shot characterized by the ball not getting airborne and simply rolling fast along the ground.
Wood - A golf club used for longer distance than the iron, but is typically more difficult to control. The head used to be made out of wood, but today may be any number of materials.
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Wood: these are the clubs you use to hit the ball the furthest, usually from your first (tee shot). The heads of the clubs used to be wooden, hence their name, but now most are metal.
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Wood: A club with a large, rounded head (usually made of wood or composite), used to hit the ball over great distances.
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Wood
A club normally used for distance shots. It can be made of wood, metal, or graphite.
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Wood: A golf club with a longer shaft and larger head than an iron used to hit the ball long distances.
Worm Burner: A ball hit thin that rolls its entire distance.
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Wood: Material that long clubs used to be made of.
Wormburner: Low mishit.
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Wood : Originally a club with a wooden head, relatively little loft and a long handle used for driving the ball and/or hitting long shots. Now most WOODS are made with a metal compound.
Wood Game Tip
Many people complain about not being able to hit the ball well with their woods (or metals), and in particular their driver. From what I've seen poor quality contact is a major problem for many of these players.
3-Wood from Off the Green (by Peter Finnegan)
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One Wood
This is synonymous with the driver. It is the preferred club for the tee shot providing the most distance and least loft.
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five-wood-- A five-wood (or five metal) is a lofted wood that can be hit from the fairway or the rough that typically hits the ball 185-225 yards.
Five-wood
A wooden club used for distances between yards for men's clubs
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Utility Wood: A specialized wood that is designed to make shots from difficult lies.
Vardon Grip: Another name for the overlapping grip. The pinkie of the low hand on the grip lays over the index finger of the high hand.
Wood clubs with greater lofts that the 5-wood are gaining in favor. some players prefer to use these clubs in place of the long irons. Distinct changes have been made in the materials used for the clubheads of woods.
Wood
Clubs used for long range shots. Traditionally made with wooden head they are now mostly made with metal alloy heads.
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WOOD - a club (either wood or metal) which is used for shots requiring a lot of distance.
WORMBURNER - this is a shot, which skims very low along the ground.
A wood from which many wooden clubs are made.
PGA
Professional Golfers' Association.
7-wood
You will find these two clubs invaluable as you get better at the game, the former for short shots over a bunker or water, the latter for long shots out of light rough.
11-wood (27 degrees)
6-iron
Note: When practicing this drill, don't expect the ball to travel as it normally would. The inherent slope for this lie creates natural trajectories that are far from perfectly straight.
For Wood shots draw a line from the ball between your feet where the line is about 1 inch from your Left heel { or try to imagine 1 Golf Ball inside your Left heel}
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A #1 wood.
DRIVING RANGE
A practice area, either at a course or on its own, where players of all ability levels go to practice their game.
METAL WOOD
The longest clubs in the bag. Made with steel, titanium or aluminum. Designed with longer distance and less accuracy
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Your total score minus your handicap ...
Craig Wood hits a 430 yard (393 m) drive at the Old Course's fifth hole in the British Open, this is still the longest drive in a major championship.
Closed Wood Face Angle Wood face angle is the BEST equipment correction device for driver accuracy.
Face angle is the direction the face points when the head is placed in playing position or soled.
Using a wood, hold the club at opposite ends. Take the clubhead in your right hand. This will be a stretching drill. As with all stretching drills you should hold each position for 20-30 seconds.
Fairway Wood Sometimes now called a fairway metal since they are now made from metal. The fairway wood is typically a rounded club and looks a bit like a smaller version of a driver. They often come numbered 3, 5, 7 and 9.
Aluminum Wood Head
A type of metal wood head constructed primarily from aluminum alloys through a die casting process. Aluminum woods are generally utilized by beginning players due to their lower price.
Before a Tiger Wood wannabe enrolls into some golf lessons, he or she must first learn how to stick to the budget.
Fairway wood - A loftier wooden club other than a driver used for long shots.
Fan - To swing and miss the ball completely. Also known as a whiff.
Fat Shot - To hit the ground behind ball first.
fairway wood Any other wooden club other than a driver.
featherie An old leather ball stuffed with compressed feathers. Replaced by the gutta percha after 1848. Also spelled feathery.
Driver: A 1-Wood Club normally used for the Tee shot.
Driving Iron: A 1 or 2 iron which gives distance rather than height.
Driving Range: An area set aside for practice.
Driver: A 1-wood, used to get the maximum distance out of a shot.
Driving Iron: Another name for the number one iron. Formerly one of various iron clubs used for shots through the green.
Driver and Fairway Wood
Hit 20 balls with each wood daily. 20 shots daily.
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Baffle Previous name given to a 5 wood. Baffy A lofted wooden club developed from the baffling-spoon no longer in use. Also the alternate name given to the 4 wood.
A four-way cambered sole is one that is rounded at every edge of a wood. (The 5-wood had a cambered sole to help it slide through the deep rough). Carry The distance a ball will fly in the air, usually to carry a hazard or safely reach a target.
It is considered a wood. It is the longest club in the bag, and it has the least amount of loft (except the putter). As a result, it is the hardest to control. Eagle Two under par. Fade The ball moves from left to right.
For example, if the hole requires a long iron or wood shot to the green, the hole should be located deeper in the green and further from its sides than should be the case if the hole requires a short pitch shot.
Even though you're not completely confident, you grab a 5-wood anyway and hit the ball into the water. Why the 5-wood? Because that's the club you normally hit 190 yards. That's what you're supposed to hit, RIGHT? -- WRONG.
Measure your 9 iron, 6 iron, and a fairway wood or hybrid when the wind is calm. You'll be able to measure the other clubs off the knowledge of these three.
A plank of wood is laid across the floor and a person is asked to walk across it, which they do confidently and competently.
a small peg - made of wood or plastic - placed in the teeing ground, upon which the golf ball may be placed prior to the first stroke on a hole.
Teeing ground
The area from which you hit your drive or tee shot.
Learn the difference between hitting an iron and wood. When you hit an iron, you want to have a steep angle of decent to get the ball up in the air.
Beginner sets of clubs normally include a "Wood" or two, and a "Putter" as well. At this point in your golf career, you really don't need to purchase a "full" set of clubs. Mainly, because you may not be playing golf very long or very often.
Before getting the Big Easy driver I rarely carried a 1-wood but now I have it with me all the time, at the expense of the 3-wood on which my whole game used to revolve.
The round object which we attempt to hit into the hole Prior to the th century it was made of wood or wool in a leather cover After the th century feathers were boiled and compressed then sewn in a leather cover It continued to evolve to a solid ...
Instead, opt for a 5- or 7-wood. Many Senior Tour and women professionals have been doing this. Even players such as Nick Faldo have been seen carrying high-lofted fairway woods in their bags.
Wood - woodenheaded clubs; hits ball longest distance.
Yips - a nervous condition of twitching in the hands and wrists. It plagues golfers particularly on putting greens.
I'm taking my own advice this year, I put a new "iron-wood" in my bag, because it gets the ball up more easily than the 2-iron I now mostly use as a driving iron.
To be specific, THE LEADING EDGE of the club (iron or wood) must be square (at right angles) to the intended line of flight through impact, This is largely achieved by a correct grip, and a correct hand action throughout the swing.
If you are one of the select few that still use "wood" woods, inspect the finish. Chips in the finish, loose whipping, damaged or loose inserts, or soleplates can drastically reduce the life of our clubs.
During a practise round I went driver, five iron and from the white tees it was three wood, seven wood. Score well here because what ever you gain on this hole you'll be sure to kiss good-bye on the par 3 fourteenth.
As the rebound of the ball is so much more rapid from metal than from wood the ball is actually in contact with the club face a very much smaller period of time.
The units used to measure the volume of a wood head. The measurement is generally made as a water displacement test whereby a wood head is immersed in water and the amount of water displaced is the head's volume.
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