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golf would be alot cheaper if the rule was 8 clubs instead of 14.

thoughts?

howd we get the magic number of 14 anyway?

stagday

No clue. But I gotta tell you, I love my 14. There are tons of times I wish I had 20. Then I could handle any situation. Alas, not the case. Oh well. But still, there isn't a single club I would want to drop. I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't think I could ever whittle my bag down to only 8 clubs. But I have to agree with you. It would a lot cheaper.

I could probably drop every other iron (so long as I could keep my wedges) and probably be OK: D, 3W, 2I, 4I, 6I, 8I, PW, SW, LW, Putter. That's 10 right there.

link

So you want to play fewer clubs? Try this. Well...maybe not.

Shade

Cool links, shade; thanks.

If I had to pick 8, I'd go: 2W, 5W, 9W, 6I, 8I, PW, SW, putter. Probably score about the same as I do now, with more enjoyment. Be forced to invent more shots, and not having exactly the right club for the distance would let me blame the stick, not the monkey holdin' it.

I carry twelve clubs, driver, 3-5-7 woods, 6-7-8-9 irons, pw, sw, 60 deg, and putter. Don't have any need for anything more as I can't use that ones I've got, it does mean there's room for a rescue club or two.....but only if they can actually do what the adverts for them say

Cheers,
Jim

where the hay are ya 4 and 5 iron Jimbo ??
into the wind you have a huge gap in your clubs !

can you not hit those irons ?? hands to far forward maybe ?

I think that 15 would be perfect... that would allow for 4 wedges and very few troublesome yardage gaps.

Into the wind the 5-7 woods are just fine for me, I gave up on the longer Irons quite a while ago, oddly enough just after getting the Wilson 26 deg 7 wood (its shaft is as long as the 3 wood).

Funny you should say about the hands being too far forward though, lately Ive been trying them in a more "up/down" position takes a bit to get use though.

Cheers,
Jim

My magic 8 would be D, 3i, 7i, PW, GW, putter. Don't carry any woods other than my driver.

I'm just wondering if golf would be more enjoyable with fewer sticks. Like Jim S. said, we would have to invent more shots and depend more on feel and we just might worry less about technique and concentrate more on what needs to be stroked.

anyway, i guess i could just take some out of the bag and play that way, but one has the feeling of insecurity if they are not all in the bag, lol.

although you do see the pro's hitting the same club various distances due to conditions and where they need to place the ball on the green.

stagday

If you are a mechanic....do you want less tools to get the job done properly? Golf clubs, like tools, are designed with a specific purpose in mind. Why try to hit a hard, or easy, 7 iron when the distance calls for a 6 or 8 iron? Sure, if you practice more with the 7 iron you will become more proficient at hitting it different distances but why do that when the same swing with the appropriate "tool" gets the job done with out altering your swing? It doesn't make sense to me not to use the proper tools for the job.

I don't know about everyone else but I want my doctor to have "14 clubs" in his bag...if you know what I mean!

i'm kind of just talking about learning more types of shots because you have fewer clubs. they always say to young people starting out, just take 1 club and develop all kinds of shots around the green and become very proficient with it. i guess i would call this developing more feel and expertise.

mentally, i'm just wondering if anybody feels you might concentrate more on the type of shot with fewer clubs and less on mechanics.

stagday

Driver, 5-wood, 7-wood, 6,7,8,9,pw,sw,putter. 10.. that's about as low as I could go without it hurting much. Anything else would require me to be way too "creative". I have enough problems with the right stick in my hands.