Metal woods?

[BruceMGF]

OK, why the uneasiness around whether no-longer-made-of-wood clubs should be called, say, 3-woods or 3-metals? (Especially by TV commentators)

After all, how many irons are made of iron these days?

"Ernie can get there with a 7-graphite ..."

It's never said.

My suggestion: go back to calling them cleeks, mashies, niblicks, spoons, brassies,
baffies, etc.

[Bullitt5339]

I say call them what I do on the course. Words that aren't fit to use in a forum setting....... lol

"He crushed that •••••!!!"

[VolunteerGolfer]

It's a 3 wood. It aggravates me when I here Johnny Miller say 3 metal. Like you said, how many irons are still made of iron? Porbably none. It's a 3 WOOD.

[sean_miller]

  BruceMGF said:

OK, why the uneasiness around whether no-longer-made-of-wood clubs should be called, say, 3-woods or 3-metals? (Especially by TV commentators)

A wood is a type of club. An iron is a type of club. A hybrid is like something in between.

What are most new woods, irons, and hybrid heads made from? Metal. Calling any one of them "metals" is strange. Then again, so is Johnny Miller.

[Tiger Spuds]

  sean_miller said:

A wood is a type of club. An iron is a type of club. A hybrid is like something in between.

You're not related are you?

[sean_miller]

  Tiger Spuds said:

You're not related are you?

If I gotta hear about that 63 at Oakmont one more time, I'm ramming a 3-metal through dad's chest.

Seriously no, I get my strangeness from a different family's tree.

[jamo]

  BruceMGF said:

"Ernie can get there with a 7-graphite ..."

Technically, not even the shafts are really graphite, they are carbon composite. Unless you are driving a Ticonderoga....