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2. Wood (golf) - Wikipedia

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   The 1-wood, or driver, is the lowest-lofted, [3] longest, and often lightest club in a player's bag, and is meant to launch the ball the longest distance of any club. . Originally, the driver was only slightly larger than any other wood and was designed to be used from the tee or the fairway, but with the advent of hollow metal clubhead construction, the driver has become highly specialized ...

3. Hybrid (golf) - Wikipedia

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   A hybrid is a type of club used in the sport of golf with a design borrowing from both irons and woods while differing from both. The name "hybrid" comes from genetics to denote a mixture of two different species with desirable characteristics of both, and the term here has been generalized, combining the familiar swing mechanics of an iron with the more forgiving nature and better distance of ...

4. Golf club - Wikipedia

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   A golf club is a club used to hit a golf ball in a game of golf.Each club is composed of a shaft with a grip and a club head. Woods are mainly used for long-distance fairway or tee shots; irons, the most versatile class, are used for a variety of shots; hybrids that combine design elements of woods and irons are becoming increasingly popular; putters are used mainly on the green to roll the ...

5. Obsolete golf clubs - Wikipedia

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   Many of the clubs manufactured between 1901 and 1935 came from Scotland, [2] but more and more started coming from larger US manufacturers. These early clubs had hickory shafts and wrapped leather grips. To secure the joins between the shaft and the head of the club, and between the grip and the shaft, whipping of black, waxed linen thread was ...

6. Big Bertha (golf club) - Wikipedia

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   The original Big Bertha driver was launched in 1991. At the time, its design was considered highly modern and a radical departure from older drivers: it was crafted entirely of stainless steel and the head had a volume of 190 cm 3 (12 cu in). Most other drivers were still made of persimmon wood and had smaller heads.

7. Bryson DeChambeau - Wikipedia

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   DeChambeau is known for his driving distance, and has experimented with a longer-than-usual 48-inch driver. Partly in response to DeChambeau, the R&A and USGA , which jointly determine the rules of golf, instituted a local rule from 2022 to allow competition organisers to limit the permitted length of a non-putter golf club to 46 inches, to ...