A critical part of hitting a short game shot is choosing the right club. It’s not too hard to hit the shot straight. Getting the ball close to the hole means controlling the distance it is hit. The club you select is a major factor in accomplishing that.

There are two ways you can change the distance a ball flies. One way is to change the loft of the club. You might hit the shot with an 8-iron or a pitching wedge. Assuming you swing each club the same way, the ball will fly farther and run farther after landing with the 8-iron than with the pitching wedge.

The second way is to use the same club, but change the size of the swing you use with it. A pitching wedge hit with a half swing will of course not fly as far or run as far as a pitching wedge hit with a three-quarter swing.

In both these cases, the golfer works with one variable and eliminates the other. We can give each method a name to make it clear how each one works. The first method could be called the Iron Method, taken from the idea that we use the same swing with clubs of different lofts to hit the ball different distances from the fairway. The second method could be called the Putter Method, following the idea that we use the same club for all shots on the green and vary the distance with the size of the stroke.

Certain shots work better with one method than the other. The Iron Method works well for long pitch shots. You can use the same-sized stroke, say where your left arm (right arm for left-handed golfers) stops when it gets parallel to the ground. Then you see how far each club from your 8-iron through your sand wedge hits the ball.

For shots close to the green, but not right next to it, you might want to use the Putter Method and choose your sand wedge. Because you’re standing close to your objective, it’s relatively easy to judge how hard to hit the shot and fine-tune the size of your stroke accordingly.

Greenside chips, from no farther than a few feet off the green, are best hit with one club, a 5-iron or a 6-iron. This lower loft means the ball will start rolling sooner, which makes it easier to control distance, and using primarily one club makes it easier for you to be familiar with how the ball responds when struck.

A third method of club selection combines the two methods. You might have three differently-sized, standardized swings that you would use with three different clubs to hit a particular shot through a range of distances. This is the most accurate way of controlling distance, but it takes a lot of work to find what distance each combination yields, and lots of practice to maintain your consistency with it.

However you choose to do it, spend some time around the practice green developing distance control in an organized way, so that when you pull a club on the course for that 25-yard chip, it’s the right club.

Golf is an exciting game. People who have never tried golf can never judge what joy and excitement lies beneath a swing of the club. A perfect game of golf highly depends on the choice of a golf club.

It is hard to determine which club would best suit a golfer but there is such a wide range of golf clubs in the world that every golfer can metaphorically speaking get a golf club specially designed for him. You must have noticed and wondered at the number of golf clubs that the caddie is seen carrying along in the golf bag. The fact is that a golf player can carry 14 golf clubs with him at a time. The golf clubs come in sets that have been fixed some how during the course of years. To have a good and perfect shot the player should not use a single club for all the shots. Your shots should be consistent and you should know which club suits you and which would assist your swing in the most accurate way. If you are an experienced player you will instantly know when your ball lands on a certain spot; which club should you take next.

The usual set of clubs that is sold in the markets consists of 2 wedges, 8 iron clubs, 3 wooden clubs and a putter. That is the basic requirement of a player during a game. These golf clubs are designed in a specific way and they are graded with different numbers according to the angels that the club heads have and their weight plus their shaft length. This angel is known as the loft of the club head. And this specific angel of the club head makes the ball take the flight in a certain direction. You can notice the difference when you hit a ball with either a bat or a plain stick and you will find out the difference yourself.

There are Iron clubs are used for playing shorter shorts and their length is even shorter because of the same reason. The wedge is actually one of the iron headed clubs and these are the shortest. And these wedges and the putters are used for playing shots from the bunkers and the greens.

The wooden clubs are the best and they are longest in length. They are made from different kinds of woods that may differ in different countries. However the fact remains that while you are playing golf you should be careful with the choice of clubs that you make for playing a good game.