You’ve been using irons your whole golfing life. Now the new craze has everyone around you using hybrid golf clubs. You find yourself wondering if you should jump on the bandwagon or just wait and let the new fad fade away. Well, you will have a long wait if you choose to wait out the hybrid golf club craze. These clubs are here to stay, so you might as well get on board with the idea and in the process be pleasantly surprised by your lower golf scores.

Let’s take a look at why the introduction of hybrid golf clubs has lowered the handicaps of many of those who have made the switch from long irons.

When comparing the two type of clubs the first thing you will notice is the huge difference in head shape. An iron has a blade shape, but a hybrid club almost has the look of a fairway wood. The head is much wider than an iron, and it has more overall mass and a much lower center of gravity while still having loft like an iron. The difference in head shape cannot be overstated. If you are in the rough, the hybrid head will power through the grass, while the blade head of a long iron is easily turned and decelerated by the grass. The result is you can hit much cleaner, straighter shots out of the rough with the hybrid.

There are times with your You have, say, 190 yards to the hole and you decide that it is a perfect distance four your 4 iron. Great lie, perfect distance, poor swing. The result of that could be the ball rolling 30 yards down the fairway while you clean the big chunk of turf off your clubhead from hitting the ball fat. If you had put that same swing on the ball using your hybrid, you still would not have been on the green, but you would likely be way down the fairway and chipping to the hole rather than hitting a longer iron. Same swing, two different results. On the other hand, maybe you are at the same yardage and choose the same 4 iron and rather than hit it fat you hit it thin. Now you either sliced it or hooked it and depending on the course, you could be in big trouble. If you had chosen a hybrid and hit it thin, you once again would not have reached the green, but the ball probably would have gone straight and once again, you would just be chipping into the green. These are very real and accurate scenarios to consider when comparing long irons and hybrid golf clubs.

Average golfers lose a lot of shots around the green, and there are simple things you can do to cut those wasted strokes way down. We have all had a nice little chip to the hole, and find ourselves either sculling it over the green into sand or water, or digging the blade into the turf and chili dipping it 5 feet, only to have to chip again. Consider using a hybrid for your chips. The reasons are the same as those explaining why to use a hybrid out of the rough or fairway. The head of the hybrid makes it very hard to dig the clubhead into the ground, and the loft on the club face makes hitting the ball thin less likely to send it screaming over the green.

Hopefully you can now see the reasons so many golfers have pulled the long irons out of their bags and are using hybrid golf clubs instead. Give them a try and you will probably see this is not a fad, but rather that hybrids are here to stay.

Women golfers are no different than male golfers. They get hooked on the game just like men do, and they are always on the lookout for something that will help them lower their score. Well, if you are a woman golfer, you should really consider replacing the long irons in your bag with hybrid golf clubs.

If you compared the clubhead speed of the average male golfer and the average woman golfer, you would find there is a pretty big difference. The average man will have a much greater clubhead speed than the woman golfer. This is not meant to be a controversial statement. It is one of those things that is what it is. The point is, you can get a lot more out of your golf game by recognizing a weakness, then taking a step to make it better.

Hybrid golf clubs are a great choice for women for a lot of reasons, but perhaps the biggest is the ability to hit a club with a shorter shaft and get a better result than you would with a long iron. Hybrids have a very low center of gravity, and almost always have a graphite shaft. These things combine to create a much bigger impact on the golf ball than the same swing would with a traditional iron. You will likely hit a hybrid 3 iron several yards further than you would hit a traditional 3 iron with the same swing. This means you can perhaps use a hybrid 4 iron for the same shots you used to use the traditional 3 iron on. A shorter club for the same shot will almost always produce a better result.

The head of a hybrid has the loft built into it so that even if you hit a poor shot, the ball will likely still get loft and go a good distance, even if it was not as far as you wanted. With traditional long irons, you can hit some really bad golf shots with the same swing that results in an acceptable shot with a hybrid golf club. The larger face of the hybrid will not bury in the ground like an iron will. The face will not roll over as easily if you hit the ball thin, so you are not likely to hit low hooks or slices. Instead, if you hit the ball thin with a hybrid you are likely to hit a straight shot that the worst thing you could say about is it did not go as far as you wanted.

Ladies, when you see all those people out on the course with hybrids in their bags, take notice. They are not just following the latest craze. They are onto something new and have found a very real way to enjoy the game more while lowering their scores.