If you really want to give your game a boost, take a look at some of the new hybrid golf clubs. Hybrids are great replacements for your long irons, and are incredibly easier to hit than the 3-, 4-, or even 5-iron that you may be currently carrying in your bag.

The concept for these clubs is not new. Rescue clubs and bafflers have been around for years, available in the fairway wood category, because they had the same length and shape, only with smaller heads.

The idea was that rescues were supposed to help you, or rescue you from trouble. The heads were smaller than fairway woods with low centers of gravity that were placed rear-ward in the clubhead.

The result was a club that cut through the turf or high grass with less drag than a fairway wood or iron.

Gary McCord is credited with the invention of today's popular hybrid club. McCord apparently went to Taylor Made with his idea of a “marriage between fairway woods and long irons.”

Because the center of gravity is moved lower and further back from the clubface, the ball gets into the air easier and at a higher angle.

The other contributing factor in their ease of use is that hybrids are shorter in length than fairway woods. This generation of hybrids have a very high resistance to twisting at impact, or MOI, and give them the feeling of being rock solid when contact is made with the ball.

New golf shafts designed solely for these clubs complete the package and makes the newest class of hybrids the best to help you control direction and distance.

Older hybrids were not as refined and you might hit one 30 yards longer just when you least expected to do it.

I saw one of our CNY pros hit an early Srixon hybrid 270 yards when trying to hit it 240 yards into a par 5.

The Pro said “Every once in a while it gets away from me.” It cost him stroke and distance that day.

The new hybrids are much more consistent in nature.

Many tour players use hybrids that replace their 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, and even 6- irons.

It is clear that these clubs are not game improvement-type weapons, but clubs that can enhance and make everyone's game a little better.

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Quotes from some really good tournament players.

“What it boils down to is experience. I always call on those experiences when they apply to the situation,” said Tiger Woods.

“There is really no repetition in golf, from day to day, really from hole to hole, there's nothing the same,” Arnold Palmer said. “It's different weather with a different lie with a different pin with the clubs feeling different and your swing feeling different. In a way, every shot is a different shot than you have ever had before.”

“Even when you are leading a tournament, you're rarely playing the way you want to. You are always improvising ... so when it comes to winning, you have to learn to finish ugly and do the best you can with what you have that day,” Jack Nicklaus said.

Former U.S. Open winner Geoff Ogilvie relates tournament golf as being the “ultimate everybody-is-looking-at-me game. It's such a fishbowl. You can't take refuge from it with action. You have to wait and think and control your frustration and then get over a six-footer. It's what makes golf harder than other games.”

See you on the links!