Fairway Woods (39)

Adjustability

The modern day driver provides golfers with greater options for altering the loft, lie and weight position to best suit the user at hand. Changing the loft can be tailored to an individual to help provide the required higher/lower trajectory in order to deliver the most penetrating ball flight possible. The lie angle can be adjusted to help counteract those unintentional fade/draw shots which ultimately result in a lost ball. The top of the range models also include adjustable weights within the driver’s head, which provide extensive versatility for increasing/lowering spin rates to either maximise forgiveness or distance, based on the golfer’s desired preference.

Head and Loft Options

Each model comes in a variety of different head formats to cater for all different golfing setups. As well as the option of loft adjustability in the majority of models, each fairway wood comes in a slightly different version to best suit the user at hand, such as a standard head, low spinning head and a draw biased head. The standard head offers the most forgiveness, while the low spinning head is normally used technically by the better player in order to reduce the club’s spin rate. The draw biased option has become increasingly popular in the modern games as this provides the extra benefit for the player who wishes to counteract a problematic fade/slice.

The majority of golfers require their lowest fairway wood to possess 15 degrees of loft which acts as a 3 wood. This serves as the longest club in a golfer’s bag aside from the driver which isn’t advised to be used outside of the tee box. There sometimes is also a less popular 2 wood version available in select models, this acts as a deeper faced mini driver set at between 13 and 14 degrees. This is normally only found in either the bag of an elite player or in the case where a golfer still hits their 3 wood extremely high. Depending on the brand, fairway woods are available in different lofts such as 4 wood (17 degrees), 5 wood (19 degrees), 7 wood (22 degrees), 9 wood (25 degrees). Similar to the hybrid principle, the amount of fairway woods a golfer requires is completely up to the player’s preference. A 3 wood is normally a necessity and then a 5 wood can be the potential replacement for a 3 hybrid/iron. Following the same protocol, a 4 wood therefore acts as a replacement for a 2 hybrid/iron, a 7 wood replaces a 4 hybrid/iron and a 9 wood makes a 5 hybrid/iron redundant. Regardless of how many fairway woods a golfer desires to include, these extremely powerful clubs certainly enable a golfer to maximise the most possible distance at the lower end of the bag.

Flex Options

Each fairway wood includes an array of both standard and custom graphite shaft options situated across various different flex options such as Extra Stiff, Stiff, Regular, Soft Regular, Lady Flex and Junior Flex. The most suitable flex option is dependent on a golfer’s club head speed, the two should correspond with each other in order to match the club’s ability to bend parallel to the speed of the golfer’s swing. This allows the golfer to feel in complete control of the club head’s path and thus prompting a more confident delivery towards impact. Choosing the correct shaft is critical in order to ensure the golfer receives the full benefit of using these excellent pieces of modern day golfing equipment.

Adjustability

Depending on the brand, some of the fairway woods in our collection provide golfers with greater options for altering the loft and lie to best suit the user at hand. Changing the loft can be tailored to an individual to help provide the required higher/lower trajectory in order to fit the exact gap the golfer wishes to fill. Some models also offer the opportunity to slightly alter the lie angle which can be adjusted to help counteract those unintentional fade/draw shots which ultimately result in a lost ball.