Golf Equipment and Accessories from NGC Golf

Though most golf putters have a 32-35″ shaft (slightly smaller for ladies and juniors, longer for most men), putters are also made with longer shaft lengths and grips, and are designed to reduce the “degrees of freedom” allowed a player when he or she putts. With a normal putter, the player has six degrees of freedom: hands, wrists, elbows, shoulders, waist and knees, all of which can be moved just slightly to affect the path of the ball and likely prevent a putt from falling in the cup. Such motions are called “yips”, and having a chronic case of the “yips” can ruin a golfer’s short game.
A belly putter is typically about 6-8 inches longer than a normal putter, and is designed to be “anchored” against the stomach of the player. This design reduces the importance of the hands, wrists, elbows, and shoulders. A long putter is even longer, and is designed to be anchored from the chest or even the chin, and similarly reduces the impact. Their use in professional tournaments is hotly contested; Pro player John O’Hara and others on the pro tours including Langer and Vijay Singh have used belly putters at some point with a marked improvement of their short game, while players like Tiger Woods and officials like former USGA technical director Frank Thomas have condemned it as conferring an unfair advantage on users.

Popularity: 14% [?]

Ask your average hacker which he fears more, the sand or the lightning, and most often the answer will be the sand. All golfers know what it’s like to be stuck in a bunker, but how many of us have ever been struck by lightning?

The single biggest reason high handicappers hate sand and thick rough is because they do not keep the golf sand wedge moving aggressively through the ball. Instead, fearing they will blade the shot (or miss it all together), they slow their hands down. The result is usually a fluffed shot that goes nowhere near its intended target, and one angry golfer.

Superior modern golf sand wedges have attempted to correct this problem by introducing bulbous heads and rounded soles. The more weight in the club head, the easier it carries and follows through the junk. With more weight, the higher handicapper who just cannot make him or herself swing aggressively through the ball from a bad lie is able to create club head speed in despite the resistance.

Popularity: 20% [?]

If you are just learning how to play the game of golf, you should never buy a new golf set online immediately. It is important that you find the type of clubs that fit your best during this learning stage. The best choice is to start with a set of moderately priced golf clubs.

When you look to buy your first golf set online, you should always rely on sources who know golf equipment well. Consult the experts or even friends who know the game and equipment. Search the Internet for unbiased golf club reviews.
Finally, if you are just a beginner, chances are your swing is more likely to let you down than the golf clubs themselves. The most important thing is to identify the golf club set that is suitable to your swing, skill level, and ability.

Popularity: 15% [?]

Golf club manufacturers have taken the center of gravity and moved it back and to the bottom of the modern hybrid golf club. This is almost impossible with a standard iron. This modification helps launch the ball high into the air. Top manufacturers have also made the face flat and added a higher launch angle, which gives the ball a higher spin, allowing it to stop faster with more accuracy.
Hybrid golf clubs are specifically designed for distance control and accuracy. The shafts are shorter and the clubfaces stiffer like their iron counterparts. They also have no face bulge or roundness like fairway woods, which keeps the shots simple. The bottoms often have runners that help the club interact with the turf whether it is long rough, short fairway or sand. Their lofts also vary anywhere from 16 to the mid 20 degrees like the longer irons.

Popularity: 12% [?]

As more and more golfers are removing the long irons from their bags and replacing them with hybrid golf clubs, it begs the question why. What makes hybrids easier than long irons to master?

When you watch the PGA Tour pros hit 2-, 3-, or -4 irons, you can see that these players have the swing skills to hit their conventional long irons almost as high as regular golfers hit their wedges. Average golfers cannot generate enough height with their long irons because they have a much lower swing speed than the pros.
The greater face-to-back dimension of the hybrid long-iron replacement heads allows the center of gravity to be positioned much farther back from the face. This results in a higher trajectory for a shot off a hybrid club compared to a traditional long iron of the same loft. Hybrid golf clubs help the golfer get the ball up into the air on a higher trajectory than a long iron.

Popularity: 15% [?]

Utility golf clubs are a relatively new addition to the pantheon of golf clubs, and they are growing in popularity due to the fact that they are designed to be more giving and easier to hit for recreational golfers.

The term utility golf club denotes a category of clubs that combine elements of both woods and irons into their designs. This combination of elements results in technical features that aid in getting the ball airborne and lessening the effects of mishits.

Most utility golf clubs are designed to replace long irons in a golfer’s bag, and when you hear it said that most utility clubs are easier to hit, this is almost always meant in comparison to the long irons the utility clubs are meant to replace.
For this reason, most golfers would do well to consider utility golf clubs. In these sets, the long irons are replaced with utility clubs designed to hit the ball the same distances, but with greater forgiveness and other game-improvement features built in.

Popularity: 12% [?]