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Why are some golf clubs called woods when they are clearly not made of wood? There is a simple answer to this. Read on to find out.

Progress and change sometimes collide with tradition to create confusion in today’s world. Such is the case with the terminology used to describe golf clubs. Golf clubs have had several changes in terminology and some of those changes have made things easier and others have made things a bit confusing. For example, the question continually comes up as to why some golf clubs are called woods when they are clearly not made of wood?

In sports equipment evolves and changes all the time and what was the old way of doing things usually gets replaced with a new way. Wooden sports equipment no matter how sturdy and well built decays and becomes useless over time. That is why college baseball bats are made of metal now as opposed to wood. Hockey sticks from the pee wee divisions all the way up to the National Hockey League now consist of metal shafts with replaceable wooden blades. The same has happened to golf.

When golf clubs were first created and started to become more refined in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s the shorter range clubs like the pitching wedge had heads made of iron and the longer range clubs like the driver had heads made of wood. When golfers referred to their clubs they referred to them as irons or woods. Over the years the heads of the longer range clubs started to get made mostly of metal but, because golf is a game of tradition, the name woods has stuck and remained after all of these years.

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