How many clubs would you carry?

[bsnone]

10.5 degree driver
3 Wood
2 Hybrid
4 Hybrid
4-PW
52 GW
56 SW
60 LW
Anser putter
Odyssey white hot #9 for putts inside of 6 ft, love the feel on short putts but cant lag putt worth a dime with this club. I think that is 16 clubs

[EquipmentJunkie]

10.5* Driver
15* 3 wood
18* 5 wood
19* hybrid
22* hybrid
3-PW
52* W
56* W
60* W w/ 14* bounce for greenside bunker
62* W w/ 3* bounce
35" newport
33" squareback

....honestly that would be too many options but I'm just trying ot make the thread fun.

[Titleist Man]

The only extra club i might put in would be an extra wedge.

[tjy355]

Here's the deal: You can carry as many clubs as you like, but you have to CARRY them.

[ryohazuki222]

I really liked only having 12 clubs... it looks good in the bag! I'd go with 13, but it's unlucky and I'm a little superstitious. If I could have as many as I wanted, it would probably range between 14-17.

The biggest addition would probably be adding a strong 3 wood. I hit 3 woods extremely well and think it would be a great addition to my normal 3.

[extremeld]

i usually play golf nowadays with only 5 clubs, this will shortly increase as i have a 1 iron i need to go collect.

i use


lw
pw
7 iron
driver
putter


cant imagine the levels of slow play if people had 8 wedges, hell why not just get clubs increasing in 1 degree increments from 14 degrees through to 68 degrees, so 55 irons, give me 15 woods, 55 hybrids also, 2 putters.


127 clubs - but my caddie gets to carry the bag

[smith5606]

My best golfing buddy and I were talking about "the good old days" when we were kids just learning the game. We both had the normal kids sets of 2 woods, 3,5,7,&9 irons, and a putter. We both agreed that going back to this configuration probably wouldn't hurt our handicaps more than a stroke or 2. I am beginning to believe that it might not hurt even that much.

I am wondering what you good folks think. How much do you think your handicap would suffer with a seven or eight club bag? If you put together such a bag now, what would be in it? I am inclined to include the following:

Driver
18* hybrid
4, 6, 9, PW irons
putter
Ping Moon-lite II or Ogio Sliver carry bag

[flopdarock]

I am wondering what you good folks think. How much do you think

when playing 18 i rarely use 1/2 of clubs in my bag

besides the driver and putter... id need a 6i 3h and some sort of wedge

[PiKapp23]

I am wondering what you good folks think. How much do you think

It's an interesting idea and I have actually played a couple times this way. Having been the son of a PGA Professional, I always had a full set of clubs, unlike most of my friends who, as kids/teens, only had a 'starter set' with only Driver, 3w, 3, 5, 7, 9 and putter. A couple years ago we went on a golf trip with rule that no one was allowed more than that (7 clubs). The scores were interesting as the lesser golfers scores changed much less than the better golfers. The biggest issue I had was the flight was different and I couldn't keep the ball on the green on approach shots. Over the 3 rounds I shot about 7-10 strokes worse each round. The best golfer (a 6 handicap) shot over 100 one round and his lowest of the 3 rounds was 88.

[flopdarock]

It's an interesting idea and I have actually played a couple times this way. Having been the son of a PGA Professional, I always had a full set of clubs, unlike most of my friends who, as kids/teens, only had a 'starter set' with only Driver, 3w, 3, 5, 7, 9 and putter. A couple years ago we went on a golf trip with rule that no one was allowed more than that (7 clubs). The scores were interesting as the lesser golfers scores changed much less than the better golfers. The biggest issue I had was the flight was different and I couldn't keep the ball on the green on approach shots. Over the 3 rounds I shot about 7-10 strokes worse each round. The best golfer (a 6 handicap) shot over 100 one round and his lowest of the 3 rounds was 88.

hmmm thats interesting... you'd think that the better players would have a better feel for their clubs by hitting full 3/4's 1/2's swings an such and knowing their limitations with each club

[ScruffyScraper]

I could have used more than fourteen clubs when I was thirty years old more than I can now. Back then, I could have used more short clubs. Now, I can pack all the short clubs that I need because I don't need as many long clubs.

These days, I've only got two fairway shots left in the bag up above the five iron. Years ago, I had more.


The following carry yardage estimates work well for me now from the fairway:

long fairway metal.......210
shorter fairway metal...195
5-iron:......................180
6-iron.......................168
7-iron.......................156
8-iron.......................144
9-iron.......................132
PW...........................120
55º W.......................100

With my other five clubs, I don't often hit full swing shots from the fairway.