ABSTRACT
Those of us whose golfing experience goes back over these 25 years cannot help but be impressed with the great variety of golf clubs and golf balls available nowadays. Clubheads come in many shapes, sizes and materials, some of which make it impossible to say whether they are woods or irons. We even have the incongruously named “metal woods” and “carbon irons”. Shafts also come in many different materials, each with their own magic properties; and in a range of lengths and flex characteristics. There are frequency matched clubs and optimised step-weighted clubs. There are customised clubs, offering every conceivable combination of lie, loft, weight, shaft flex and grip size. Golf balls have
a multitude of different dimple patterns, sizes and numbers, as well as a choice of colours, and, more significant, two or three types of internal construction.
