What are the clubs in my bag?
Why have they got numbers on and what are they?
Long Irons
The next golf clubs we will look at are the 'long irons'. These are the all-metal clubs that are numbered 1 - 3. Just like the 'woods' they start with the longest length (1) and progressively get shorter as the number gets higher. The 1 iron is so difficult to use that only professionals normally use it, and even then not many! Legend has it that Lee Trevino once said (having been struck by lightning on several occasions) that in future he would always have a 1 iron in his hand if thunder was in the air as even God couldn't hit a 1 iron!
Apart from the length of each club, the main difference is in the angle of the blade. The 1 iron, for example, has an angle of loft so small that it is almost vertical, and as you go down in length the angle of loft gets progressively bigger. This 'angle of loft' has a direct bearing on the distance you can hit the ball, as the higher the loft angle the higher the ball will go into the air, but the higher it goes also diminishes the distance it will travel. This is why golfers need to know the distance all the time.
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