But there isn't a club in the game that will change a player's swing, or make him a better course manager. To believe in the redemptive powers of equipment is to open to frustration. Check your garage. Better to take a few lessons, shore up your fundamentals, and practice. Always hit the ball in the air.
Most modern courses force a player to lift the ball over water or sand traps.
But usually there are a few opportunities to run the ball along a fairway, turn it off a slope in the fairway, or scoot it up on the green. If you hit the ball in the air and in the air only you are playing automatic golf. And automatic golf is boring. It doesn't explore the full dimensions and possibilities of the game. Golf is a game where memory speaks, and where you can walk where Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer did.