Translated from German into English, iron means: Golf- Iron. In the past, all golf clubs with an iron club head were referred to as such. Nowadays, other alloys and metals are also used in club construction and therefore not everything that is referred to as golf iron is also made of the metal iron. Most good players today use irons 3 to 9, but in the amateur game, most club sets are usually only sold from iron 5 or iron 6 upwards. This is because the longer irons are now being replaced by the somewhat easier to play hybrid or recue clubs. A 6 iron, for example, has an average loft angle of 30°. For the short game, the so-called wedges are intended, which are available in different loft and bounce angles. The most important are the sand wedge (SW) and the pitching wedge (PW). Nowadays, irons 1 and 2 are negligible, as they are very difficult to play due to their shaft length and steep loft. Basically, all golf irons differ in the length of their shafts and the angle of the clubface, the so-called loft. Golf irons are divided into the short irons 8 and 9, the medium irons 5 to 7 and the long irons 1 to 4. The choice of the right golf club ultimately depends less on the club head shape of the golf iron and more on the quality and characteristics of the golf shaft.
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