Hybrid Golf Clubs

Why do you need them?
Hybrids have only really caught on in the past few seasons but in fact they’ve been around in one form or another for many years.

Way back in the early 20th Century the aluminium faced Mills NK Niblick, which was used to help players escape from bunkers and bad lies, could rightly be described as a hybrid. More recently Cobra launched The Baffler in the mid 70’s which played a big part in the company’s success. Some of the early hybrids were hard to hit and initially golfers didn’t take well to them. But with some modifications all that has changed.

If you find your long irons more difficult to hit than when you first took up the game, you may have more than advancing years to blame! Compared to twenty or thirty years ago each of the long irons in your set is likely to have 2 to 4 degrees less loft, making them that much more difficult to hit consistently. Compared to long irons, the latest hybrids are a doddle to hit. So if you’ve dismissed hybrids in the past it's time to take another look.
 
What is a hybrid?
Hybrids combine the best elements of fairway woods and long irons into one club whose goal is to be easier to hit. They should provide the distance of a fairway wood or long iron, with a higher trajectory. This means the ball gets airborne, flies high and lands soft. Meanwhile shafts are shorter and club-faces stiffer – more akin to irons – for distance, control and accuracy. Compact heads and features such as rounded soles or rails on the bottom help you deal with a variety of different lies.

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