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Various clubs are designed with the face having differing loft (the angle between a vertical plane and the clubface when the club is at rest). Loft is the major determinate of trajectory. Perhaps with the exception of tee shots, it is loft that makes a golf ball leave the ground, not an upward direction of swing: for some shots

The parts of a club are the shaft (with grip) and the head. The shaft is a tapered tube made of metal, or graphite fiber. The shaft is roughly 1/2 inch in diameter (12 mm) near the grip and between 35 to 45 inches (89-115 cm) in length. The end of the shaft opposite the head is covered with a rubber or leather grip for the player to hold.

Of all parts of the golf club that affect playability, the shaft is perhaps the most underappreciated. Nevertheless, the shaft is critical for two reasons: It elastically bends and straightens during the swing, and any weight that club designers save in the shaft (especially toward the tip) improves your chances of increasing clubhead velocity.

The head is the part that hits the ball. Each head has a face which contacts the ball during the stroke (but the head of a putter may have two faces).

Traditionally, most metal golf club heads were made by forging, which involves the careful shaping of the club head through hammering and pressing of heated steel. Today, most modern golf club heads are cast. Forged clubs are still prized for feel while cast clubs often have modern game improvement characterists.

with a particularly high trajectory such as pitches, the club actually hits the ball in a downward motion, and with most other shots the motion is more or less horizontal. Typically, the greater the loft angle, the higher and shorter the resulting ball trajectory with greater spin. Reversely, a smaller club loft angle produces a lower trajectory and spin.

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2. Regulations regarding Golf Clubs

The ruling authorities of golf, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (R&A) and the United States Golf Association (USGA) reserve the right to define what shapes and physical characteristics of clubs are permissible in tournament play.

Several recently developed woods have a marked "spring-like effect" (i.e. a strong rebound of the ball from the clubface) resulting in very high ball speeds and great lengths of tee shots. Current USGA and R&A regulations differ with respect to acceptable limits of the "spring-like effect". Therefore, a few club types may not be played in tournament or professional play under USGA jurisdiction, but are allowed elsewhere.

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