The irons weigh from 14 ounces for the No. 2 to 16 for the No. 9. Sand wedges will go up to 17.
Shafts of clubs are graded in three types, flexible, medium, and stiff. Most of the bigger, stronger pros use the stiff shaft. The medium shaft is for the average player. The flexible is generally considered best for players of more advanced age and for women. It is best suited for a slow swing. The limber-ness of a shaft is known to the manufacturers as shaft deflection.
We have heard a great deal, for years, about swing weight. The term is tossed about so loosely, in fact, that few players have much of an idea what it is. Swing weight indicates the distribution of the weight of a club. It is the proportion of the weight in the head compared to the shaft and the grip. Swing weights are listed from C0 to D9.
But a D9, for instance, doesn’t mean that 9 ounces of a club weighing 13% ounces are in the head. D9 is merely one of the calibrations on what is known as a lorythmic swinging weight scale.
A D9 is no club for the average player to use, either. It is what Arnold Palmer and many of the other pros use, and it is for a strong, fast swinger. For the...
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