When do you use a rescue club

Think of it as being slightly behind where you normally place a 3 or 4 iron. Your goal should be to position the hybrid at the lowest point of your swing arc. You still want to hit down on the golf ball and not scoop it.

Hybrids can help you bring confidence to an area of your game that you used to dread. For some golfers, it can dramatically impact score and confidence if you can hit it straight. One of the biggest mistakes that most golfers make when adjusting to a hybrid is trying to play it like a fairway wood. Yes, even though it looks like a fairway wood, you still want to make a small divot when you hit a hybrid.

Swing your hybrid almost like you would an iron in the fairway. Like an iron, the divot should be slightly ahead of the ball and create thin, shallow divot. As hybrids are longer clubs, they do require you to get an adequate shoulder turn.

Make sure that you take the club away smooth as a quick take away can lead to an arms-only swing. This will make sure you get enough speed to accelerate through the ball. Hybrids are great because they are so versatile.

You can literally hit them from almost anywhere your ball ends up on the golf course. The first thing to make sure to do is tee the ball low, really low. A big mistake amateurs make when hitting hybrids and woods is teeing it too high. WIth hybrids, this can make you hit the ball high on the club head which produces very inconsistent results. Hybrids are so much easier to hit off the fairways that tour pro Y. Again, make sure that you are not getting the ball too far forward at setup.

This means manufacturers are freed up to move weight to the club head perimeter. Moving the weight to the perimeter of the club creates a high moment of inertia MOI at impact. MOI is the amount a club twists at impact. Clubs with a higher MOI twist less and give more distance on off center hits. Long irons, especially bladed clubs have lower MOI with means they twist more on off center hits and are less forgiving.

The hybrid or rescue clubs are a combination of long iron and fairway wood hybrid and extremely adaptable from poor lies rescue. With long par 3s and long par 4s becoming increasingly common, modern golfers are adapting to become more clinical with their woods and hybrids to post lower scores.

Aptly named because of their traditional hardwood club heads, fairway woods typically have a longer shaft and an oversized clubhead compared to other clubs in your bag. Similar to your driver, the large head and low center of gravity on your woods allow you to strike power through up into the golf ball to help your shot travel further.

Typically fairway woods come in a range of sizes and lofts ranging from a 1-wood to a 5-wood, with the 1-wood giving you almost the same distance as your driver and a 5-wood being similar to a hybrid.

As a beginner, I recommend starting with the 3-wood; an easy to use club that can bridge the distance between your irons and your driver. An amateur golfer should hit their 3-wood between and yards, while their driver should travel over yards.

In warm, dry conditions, nothing is sweeter than hitting a flush 3-wood off the deck and watching it ping yards down the fairway. The larger heads on your fairway woods make them a lot more forgiving and allow you to get a better connection on the ball compared to a 1-iron. Because of their longer shafts, a 3-wood will require you to address the ball a little differently from a standard iron or hybrid shot.

Typically you need to take a wider stance over the ball and have the ball forward in your address. A rescue club will typically have a longer shaft than an iron yet is smaller and slightly less flexible than a fairway wood, making it easier to use to punch golfballs on lower trajectories up the fairway.

And they have been growing in popularity among amateur golfers as they are one of the most forgiving clubs you can have in your bag. The chunky yet compact head on a hybrid club is designed to help you make a sweeter contact with the ball in the most difficult of lies.

Even from boggy wet ground, you can shovel some beautiful long shots up the fairway that will help save you from playing it safe and chipping out. You can strike your hybrid from anywhere, the tee, the fairway, you can even get creative and use it to perform little chips around the green that would otherwise be hard to roll on with a wedge.

Let the club do the work. Well, neither. Both fairway woods and hybrids serve different uses and are essential tools every golfer should have in their bag. But as popularity suggests, many amateur golfers opt to use hybrid clubs instead of breaking out their fairway woods. This is simply because rescue clubs are so forgiving and deliver a better connection on the golf ball off the ground, even if you swing poorly through your shot. The clubhead on a hybrid packs way more of a punch than a fairway wood.

They are designed to be much denser and heavier than their wood counterparts to punch the ball out of tough lies. They are lighter than the hybrid to help you get better ball spin on the shot. Ultimately that means you can get a lot more speed, distance, and shape on the shot with your woods. With a fairway wood, pro golfers have much more scope to work spin into the ball to cut long fades or high draws and plant the ball onto the greens. Its purpose is to get you out of trouble while helping you sacrifice as little yardage on the course as possible.