Which club should I use?

Many beginner to intermediate golfers have little to no idea how to choose the right golf club for a particular shot. With that said, here are a few golf tips to help with proper golf club selection. Over time, you should tailor these golf tips to your own distances and preferences.

Club Selection and Typical Distances: Woods and Pitching

“Typical” Distances for Irons and Clubs

For the beginner golfer, below are two useful tables to help choose the right golf club for a particular distance you wish to hit the golf ball. Keep in mind that these “Typical Distances” are for the average golfer based on interviews with dozens of PGA teaching professionals and amateur golfers and should be observed only as guidelines when choosing the right golf club for you.

The tables above do not take into account wind, downhill or uphill lies, elevated tees or elevated greens. So, when looking to choose the right golf club in those situations, add or take away a few clubs depending on the severity of the elevation change. A decent, albeit unscientific golf tip to select the right golf club is take one or less extra club for every 10 yards of elevation change. Light to moderate wind can add or deduct 1 to 2 clubs as well depending if it is in front or behind you. Based on these golf tips combined with regular course play (and “feel”), we hope you have the fundamentals to choose the right golf club every time you play.

Source: golfhelptips.com