Know More About Official Specifications on Golf Clubs

Oktober 25, 2011

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Wether the we used meet the specifications? As a matter of fact, before we buy the club, even before the products are released, the golf clubs manufacturers have already submitted a sample to the USGA of every countries, to test whether the clubs meet the rules. If manufacturers failed to submit samples or don’t wait for the results before producing or promoting the golf clubs, they have to take the risk of violating the rules. For the purpose of reference for the record, the submitted samples will be kept by R&A Or USGA.

General speaking, we have to refer the Subsidiary Rules II of Rule 4. The following are several points of explainations.

1. The General Rule says that the clubs are designed to play with. Generally are divided according to the shape and funtions into three types: woods, irons and putters. Putter is designed for putting on the green, and its loft shall not exceed 10 degrees. Golf club mustn’t be made in essentially different structure from the traditional and customary form. Clubs must include head and shaft, with all parts be fixed. In addition to be permitted by the rules, the club also may not have external appendages.

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2. About Adjustability : In addition to adjusting the entire weight of the whole club, other kind of weight regulation is permitted according to R & A and USGA’s assessment. But there are some forms of regulation. And the rules allow the adjustment method on the following bases:

(i) Adjustment can not be easily carried out;

(ii) All adjustable parts are firmly fixed and can not be loose in a race. And the structural adjustments must meet all the rules.

3. Club length: A golf clubs should be not less than 18 inches (457.2 mm), and not exceed 48 inches (1219.2 mm) except for putter. For example, the shaft length of # 7 iron is37”. The length of woods and irons is to measure the length from the grip to the angle vertex of the club face botton and ground level when flattly placing the club on the level surface.

4. When the club is in a normal stateits shaft must be calibrated in the following states. The vertical angel between the projective planes of shaft’s straight part and the vertical line of toe should be less than 10 degrees.

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In order to explain the importance of rules on golf equipments, golfclubshotsale hereby refer the 2008-2011 edition of Rules of Golf and the 2010-2011 edition of Decisions On The Rules of Golf.

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