LA Golf Courses

Golfing in Los Angeles? Find LA golf courses at Savesomegreen.com
Visitors and residents alike love Los Angeles for several reasons, but one is prominent: the great golfing available here. LA golf courses are ready whenever your schedule permits a game, and there are several convenient LA tee times available morning, day or evening to best fit into your active itinerary. Los Angeles golf tee times await you at the David L. Baker Memorial Golf Center, a par-62, 18-hole course in beautiful Fountain Valley. With six bunkers and lakes to keep you on your toes, along with large rolling greens, this scenic golf course is not to be missed. You will also have opportunity to perfect your game here as well because of the roomy 32-stall driving range. Whether practicing or in the heat of a round, it helps to understand the components of a golf club, because knowing what they are configured to do will help you select appropriately and improve your golf game.

Starting at the top of the golf club is the grip where your hands are placed, followed by the metal shaft and ending up with the head of the club. The head consists of the hosel, which connects the head to the shaft, the face, the back and the sole. The face is the part of the head that comes in contact with the ball, and the back is behind the face. The sole is the very bottom-most part of the club head that comes in contact with the ground.

On a golf club, the face can be flush with vertical, or it can be constructed to slope away from vertical. A face with greater slope will cause a hit ball to move higher in the air for a shorter distance. This is the type of golf club to reach for when you are trying to shoot up high over some kind of hazard, such as water or a bunker. Irons and some woods typically have a greater slope than a putter or a driver.

Another aspect of the face of a golf club has to do with the grooves placed there. The grooves help improve spin of the golf ball when it is struck. Also, if there is moisture on the grass where you are playing golf and you hit the ball with grass between the golf ball and the face, because of the tremendous force of the swing the ball would slide up the face of the club without achieving satisfactory spin. The grooves act like a drain, allowing the water to be moved out of the way so that the ball can move accurately up the face and achieve appropriate spin.

The sole's function is to slide smoothly over the surface of the grass. This is why woods have flat and wide soles. Irons tend to remove divots from the playing surface, so a sole on an iron is designed to cut evenly through the grass so as not to disturb the golf club's impact on the ball.

Understanding the golf club head is one sure way to improve your next golf game.