Nate provides basic information regarding golf club design and purpose. People new to golf will learn why golf clubs are designed as they are.
[Music] good afternoon my name is Nate pomoy I’m a PGA lifetime member I’ve been in the golf business for probably as it says a lifetime but we’ll say about 40 years I’ve been playing golf since I was 11 years old from rank beginner uh on up through high school college and uh played the professional ranks for quite a few years before I got into the golf industry been managing golf teaching golf everything about golf for the last 40 some odd years and I’m looking forward to getting to know you and uh introducing you to the game that I’ve come to love good afternoon everyone today I’m going to discuss the equipment that we play golf with but before I do that I have to explain a little bit about what golf is about golf is consists of nine or 18 holes for a full game when you play a hole in golf it’s a certain distance the clubs are all designed to hit a ball a certain distance and a certain trajectory and it varies with the golfer big strong people might be able to hit a go a nine iron for instance a certain distance uh the average person may not hit it as far but they’re all designed to hit the ball a certain distance and and trajectory so we’re going to talk about the equipment and what it does and the purpose these clubs serve when they go out on the golf course all right so today we’re going to talk about irons and irons like all golf clubs vary in three way two ways the length of the club the longer the club is the longer the shot will be so this creates a Big Arc and with an with a I have a nine in my hand and the nine iron is fairly short with all from all the golf clubs and it’s designed to not make the ball go a long ways but you’ll also notice that the nine iron has angle to the face the angle is demonstrated in Loft so the Loft represents how high the ball is probably going to go when struck properly okay so you have a nine iron here which is short and length and high in Loft this is going to create a ball when struck properly we’ll have the ball go Fairly short distance but also fairly high for instance if I’m trying to hit the ball over the water but not a long ways I would use the high lofted club as I get into the rest of the clubs they every Club is designed a little bit differently so I’m going to show you this is a nice iron an eight iron would be this long a seven iron this long a six iron this long and so on so the lower the number of the iron the longer the shaft is remember the length of that shaft creates a bigger Arc and will make the ball go further when hit properly also the longer the club is the less Loft you have on the club face so that longer iron is designed to make the ball go further and lower that helps it’s like shooting an arrow if you’re going to shoot an arrow like this you know the arrow is going to go up and it’s going to come down on about the same angle if I aim the arrow this way like with my longer iron four or five iron the ball is going to go lower but further all right Loft and length that’s how the clubs are different now I’m going to introduce the metal wood to you we’ve been talking about irons and you can see how short the iron is and you can see how much longer the wood is compared to the iron and you now know that the longer the club the bigger the ark the further the ball is supposed to go when hit properly I keep on saying when hit properly so this club the metal wood is designed to make the ball go optimally far okay this is a club that will typically make the ball go as furthest possible if you’re swinging it um the other thing I want to talk about with regard to this metal wood is that the longer the club is the harder it is to control imagine I had a 40ft club here that I’m holding imagine 40 ft out from where I’m holding the club here how difficult it would be to control the end of it all right so this wood metal wood is longer than the iron makes it just a little trickier to control what you’re doing with it and we’ll get that’s one of the reasons why we start off when we learn how to play golf we usually start off using the shorter clubs okay I just wanted to show you the difference in the wood length and again it has Loft with they also make different numbers of wood so like this would be a driver or commonly known as a number one wood they make three wood they make four woods and five woods and so on and each of those woods this is driver Loft remember the Loft it comes off the club face this would be a three-wood loft this would be a fourwood fivewood and again each one of these different Lofts is designed to make the ball go a certain trajectory the higher the number the higher the Loft okay all right folks uh you’re watching a video of me talking about learning how to play golf at the very Basics if you decide after watching this video to come down to GPS Academy at um at Sun City Country Club and take a lesson there’s a terminology uh that we’re going to use I’m going to use it and you’re going to have to learn it and I don’t want you to be confused by it so I’m not going to assume anything and we’re going to solve some of the mystery of terminology so I’m going to go over this with you this blue pole is called a shaft it’s a golf shaft this up here is called the golf grip it’s referred to as the grip so we’ve talked about grip we’ve talked about shaft now we’re going to talk about the club face and the club face is right here this is what we want to hit the golf ball with we want to hit it in the center of the club face because if you hit the ball in the center of the club face the ball goes plenty far if you hit the ball towards new term toe of the club the ball doesn’t go as far when hit off the toe of the club as it does when it’s hit off the center of the face if you swing a little cockey and have happen to hit the ball more towards the heel of the club it’s just like the toe it’s not solid and a ball doesn’t go near as far as it does when you hit it in the center of the club face okay so one more term the bottom of the club this is called the so it’s the so of the club if you think about it it’s just like a shoe the toe the heel the soul just like your shoe the only difference is we have a club face here and we want to hit the ball in the center of the club face for maximum distance okay that’s the terminology we’re going to keep on going over and over all right join us at the GPS golf Learning Center it is located at the Sun City Country Club in Sun City Arizona you are invited to learn from our world-class tour professional PGA and LPGA golf instructors check out our website or call for more information [Music]
