Golf Lovers Blog

There are so many different styles and makes of clubs nowadays that it can be hard to know where to begin. The most important factor is not if these are the best golf irons on the market, but if they are the best golf irons for you.

You see you need to choose the club to suit your skill level and your particular preferences, if you have elbow trouble you may want to get a club with a graphite shaft and a polymer or rubber insert in the head to reduce the transmission of the impact with the ball, but other people may be horrified by that selection.

There are three main factors you should take into account in your club selection, the club head design, the shaft type and the shaft flex. Combined together these will form the ‘personality’ of your club and directly affect the quality of your game. Let’s look at each in turn:

Club head design

The club head is the most important part of the club, after all that is what makes contact with the ball! There are three distinct styles of head, the oversized head, the midsize head and the traditional blade style head. You can think of these pretty much as beginner, intermediate and advanced heads.

When you are just starting off then you may want to try an oversized head, these are purposely built with deep cavity-back designs to give a bit of forgiveness if you don’t hit the ball right. They also have a lower centre of gravity which enables you to get the ball into the air easier.

Midsize heads are a compromise, they still have a slightly over accentuated cavity-back design which gives forgiveness and a wider sweetspot, but are not as deep or wide as the oversized head.

The blade head is the true golf club with a shallow cavity which enables you to work the ball more and get it to do what you want, but it is also the least forgiving if you hit the ball wrong.

Shaft type

The two main types of shaft are steel or graphite. Steel shafts make for a club with a heavier feel, and they don’t have as many options for shaft flex, but are the most durable. Graphite shafts are a lot easier to get the flex you want with, but are not as durable and don’t give that heavy feel some people like.

The best way to choose is to go and try out variations of both and see which you like so you can find the one with the best ‘feel’ to it for your playing style.

Shaft flex

The shaft flex affects the balls trajectory and is linked to how fast you swing your club. As you swing your club you will get a certain amount of bend, so choosing the right stiffness of shaft ensures that the club is at the optimal shape when it connects with the ball.

Typically if you swing at 105mph + you need extra stiff, 90 - 105 then you need a stiff, 80 - 95 would be regular, 70 - 85 would be senior rating and less than 70 would be ladies rating.

You can either go out with a golf instructor and get them to suggest what type of shaft flex you need, or borrow some different clubs from the golf shop at the course and see which one suits your swing style better.

Shoes are a part of every person’s wardrobe. It used to be people would make fun of how many pairs of shoes women had. Men are becoming just as bad. There are dress shoes in black, white, and brown. Different shades of brown. There are athletic shoes, golf shoes, bowling shoes. Don’t forget the boots. Hunting boots, hiking boots, cowboy boots. Looking into a closet reveals most of these shoes wind up on the floor, usually in a jumbled mess. It can take forever to find the mate. With a closet shoe organizer you can straighten up the mess and end the clutter.

We used to have a mat by the front door to catch the shoes. This became a shelf. It became so bad the shoes had to be taken to each person’s room. There were always more shoes. The cries could be heard from one end of the house to the other. “Where are my shoes?” It was usually a muffled sound because the person doing the searching was at the bottom of a closet somewhere. Adding a shoe organizer to each closet was the solution.

There are so many styles to choose from these days. You no longer need some over the door caddy. The pockets always ripped. The shoes didn’t fit right. Some things have good intentions but are just not practical. The new shoe storage systems are great. They can hold as many shoes as you throw at them. The shoe organizer was developed to handle any size shoe. This means they are versatile for men, women, and children.

As with any closet organizing system, the styles are endless. You can have stackable shelves. There are stackable caddies. You can buy shoe cubbies. It is all up to you as to how the shoes are stored. There are even tilt type shelving units. These are great because it looks like a little dresser. The difference is the “drawers” tip forward revealing the shoes. These also are stackable. Hanging units are the most cost effective. If you are like me, there just isn’t enough room in a hanging unit. They are great for kid’s rooms.

The closet shoe organizer can be found in wood, wire, wicker, and plastic. You can choose a style to match the organizer you already have in place. Some of the shoe organizers look great on their own. It is a matter of preference when looking at shoe organizers.

Golf Clubs, $750.00 - Golf Shoes, $95.00 - Pink Golf Balls, $35.00… The look on my husbands face when I walked into his country club to join him for a round of golf… Priceless!

Golf for women, Ladies golf…female golf?

I don’t know, it just doesn’t sound right. Especially if you’re a man, or more to the point, a husband or boyfriend who just got asked the last question he ever in his life wanted to hear. No, it’s not when are you going to ask me to marry you, it’s, can I play golf with you?

I know of no better punishment for your misbehaving man than to infringe on his time honored tradition of a round of golf. Twenty one million men play at least one round of golf every year. Nearly 80% of them can’t break 90.

That means they are pretty bad golfers ladies so they aren’t doing it for the satisfaction of playing well. In fact, they can get pretty steamed when the ball isn’t rolling right and I’ve heard tale or two of otherwise civil men tossing their thousand dollar set of clubs in the lake in a fit of rage.

Sad to think they would rather go through that then to spend an afternoon with us, huh?

Now, every once in a while, a man is gifted at birth with certain skills including above average eye hand coordination and can actually get pretty good at this stupid little game. Nothing irritates a better than average golfer more than all those eighty percenters out there hacking up the course and slowing things down, getting him out of his rhythm, or groove. Nothing that is, except perhaps when the little lady wants to tag along and learn how to play golf so they can spend more time together.

I hope you ladies out there realize all this and are outsmarting them at their own game. I would imagine that perhaps there are quite a few of us who have no desire what so ever to go chasing a little white ball around in the hot sun for four or five hours. We simply get pleasure out of seeing our man squirm, giving every excuse in the book as to why we can’t join them.

My ex used to tell me that you can’t learn out on the course, that it wouldn’t be fair to other golfers. I’d stomp my foot and say that if I paid my money just like they did, well they can just hold their britches while I take as many swings as necessary to get the ball in the hole. Man would he get irritated!

I’d force him to take me to the driving range where I would commence to hitting the ball in every direction imaginable…actually broke a car window one time. Once I caught up with my husband I forced him to go back and leave a note on the windshield. That three hundred lesson was not soon forgotten.

Anyway, I like to think that if more women held their men hostage with the threat of wanting to play golf with them, we’d probably have a female president by now.

The only thing I could possibly imagine that would irritate him more is if you were to actually beat him at a round of golf. I had a friend who did just that. She took private lessons and practiced while her husband was at work and then went out and humiliated him to death right there on that sacred ground they call a golf course.

I’ve actually picked the sport up recently and I have to say, it’s not half bad. I wear my little golf skirt and prance around in the most ridiculous manner, but the guy’s love it. The one’s that don’t have their wives or girlfriends tagging along at least.

I read a great book on golf, just for ladies and you can get a copy at my website. There’s also a picture of three young studs showing off for the camera that you just HAVE to see. Make sure the husband’s not around though, they get all fired up about that kind of thing to! Another story for another day I guess.

Oh well, see you on the course.