What is the difference between a fairway wood and a hybrid club?
Can anyone explain the difference between the two? I like the Cobra Baffler, which I believe is a baffler but I'd like to make sure I understand what I'm buying 1st.
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This site gives some good info on hybrids:http://www.learnaboutgolf.com/equipment/...
For help in selecting a club, see this site:
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From Wikipedia:
Woods are played for long shots from the tee or fairway, and occasionally rough, while irons are for precision shots from fairways as well as from the rough. A new type of wood known as a "hybrid" combines the straight-hitting characteristics of irons with the easy-to-hit-in-the-air characteristics of higher-lofted woods. A "hybrid" is often used for long shots from difficult rough. Hybrids are also used by players who have a difficult time getting the ball airborne with long irons.
Hybrids are designed similar to an iron, only with a bit more beef behind it. They are easier to hit than a long iron, and are much more versatile. Also, hybrids are a tad heavier than a fairway wood, making it easier to get up in the air. I recently switched from a 3-wood to a hybrid, and am incredibly satisfied with the results. I highly recommend the hybrids. Bafflers are very good hybrid clubs. I purchased a Mizuno hybrid on ebay for $50, brand new. Bafflers are a little more expensive, because of name-brand. Regardless of the brand, I think you will be happy with the Hybrid.
A hybrid is designed to swing and connect with the ease of a wood but gain elevation better than a wood. A hybrid is now generally put in a set of clubs where the 2 , 3 & sometimes 4 irons previously existed. An example of this would be like in a fairway trap, you would never want to use an iron in a fairway bunker over a wood because the blade tends to get caught in the sand because it has no bounce, however the depth of the hybrid gives you protection from the blade effect in sand or other difficult grassy lies. Other than the example given above, it is simply personal preference, it is widely believed that a hybrid allows a higher handicap golfer a higher percentage opportunity for a shot that will not hurt one's score.
its discontinued by this point. but hybrid is a mix of an iron and a fairway wood. a fairway wood is longer.
Hybrid irons and woods primarily differ in the standard shaft lengths. The standard length of a hybrid wood is the same as the corresponding fairway wood, however the loft of a hybrid is higher than its equivelant wood. For example, the loft of a typical fairway 3 wood is 15 degrees whereas the loft of a similar hybrid wood is 18 degrees.
The irons are a slightly different story. The standard hybrid iron is longer than a traditional iron, but shorter than a hybird wood. Now you may be asking why the irons are shorter. Well, the shorter length of the hybrid irons gives you more control. You end up with the control of an iron with the ease of hitting of a wood.
Hybrid clubs are meant to replace 3 and 4 irons as higher lofted clubs are also easier to hit.
a fairway wood has a big head, like a driver...
a hybrid has a small face and less head mass then a fair way wood, it's basically like your hitting an iron...
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Wood-Iron Hybrids Continue Growing in PopularityFeb. 11, 2003 - If you've ever had trouble hitting long irons - and if you're like most recreational golfers, you have - then you may want to give a utility club a try. Utility clubs are one of the newer categories of clubs on the market, and there are still some major golf companies that don't make them. Those companies are disappearing, however - being won over to the utility club market by the clubs' growing popularity.
Utility clubs - which are also called hybrids, wood-irons or iron-woods - are intended as replacements for long irons. They combine the best elements of fairway woods and long irons into one club whose goal is to be easier to hit and whose purpose is to be used off the fairway, out of the rough, out of sand or other poor lies.
Utility clubs should provide the distance of a fairway wood or long iron but with a higher trajectory than what you'd get from a long iron so that the ball gets airborne, flies high and lands soft.
The clubs achieve this by using the low profile and weighting of fairway woods to help get the ball in air, while avoiding the digging (divot-taking) nature of irons.
In general, they are shorter in shaft length than fairway woods, providing more control.
Some of the innovators in the utility club category include Kasco, Tour Edge and TaylorMade.
Kasco's K2K E-Spec utility clubs (read review) came on the market in 2003 and have been a huge hit despite their MSRP of $399. The high price is a result of what Kasco calls "Super Hyten," a super-maraging steel twice as dense as titanium. Lower-priced steel versions are also available.
Other popular brands include Tour Edge's Tour Iron-Wood, a rare utility club that in appearance is more like an iron than a fairway wood. It is designed for better players who want to work the ball.
The Perfect Club (read review), despite its infomercial originals, has been popular with critics. TaylorMade's Rescue Mid is a fine update of the company's Rescue Club, one of the first utility clubs to gain acceptance on the PGA Tour.
Adams, Kasco, TaylorMade, Tour Edge and Wilson are among the companies now offering full sets of clubs in which utility clubs are substituted for long irons. Rather than getting 3-iron through PW, these sets include two utility clubs and 5-iron through PW.
Utility clubs are here to stay, and golfers can look forward to many more choices to come.
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