| Just a little general information dscl, most off the shelf clubs, ones bought at a big box store, are generally too long, in particular the driver and fairway woods. Club manufacturers came up with some arbitrary length for a driver, supposedly making them for some guy 6 ft whatever. I'm not sure exactly what height you have to be to have the clubs fit perfectly. SO,,,, what a lot of golfers will do, is either have the store where you bought them, or a bona fide club fitter, adjust the length of the clubs to fit you. There is a formula where they take a measurement from the floor to the bend in your wrist, standing in a typical address position, from there they will adjust the driver and all the other clubs to a preset length to fit that measurement, each iron being approximately 1/2 inch longer then your pitching wedge. Pitching wedge being the shortest, 2 iron the longest. Your 5 wood being typically 4 inches longer then the 2 iron, the 3 wood, 2 inches longer then the 5 wood, and the driver 2 inches longer then that. OK now when your purchasing your clubs, if you buy them from a recognized golf store, they may offer to do the fitting for you. If your buying from a big box store, contact your local golf course and find out who does the fitting for their course. Its usually not all that expensive to have it done, and it DEFINITELY worth the money spent because your starting off with clubs that fit you.
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