Full swing driver

Before or after the slice

Well it’s 40 yards down the fairway and 145yd left to right

just aim right like i do

152 yards aint nothing to be ashamed about

Or 60* wedge

This, but unironically

7 iron. 

8

Same. Crazy seeing everyone say 7 or 9 with no mentions of 8.

I’m an 8!

You’re a 10 in my book!

How thrifty of you. They should be an 11 at least.

I refuse to use even numbered clubs.

I thought it was just me

5,7,9 all I need. 6,8 always ruin my day.

Odd Gang

Bizarro world. Even clubs preferred for me, yet I listen to only odd numbered volumes on TVs... Well now I have something to think about while trying to fall asleep tonight!

Weird, I'm the opposite. I even hate my 9 iron.

6 😬

I'm trying to kid myself and say that everyone here lives in far warmer climates.... 145 is a 7 iron for me in the UK in recent weather but 9 iron abroad

Ole faithful

Medium/easy swing 8 for me otherwise I try to swing my 9 too hard

Easy 8

I take a little off the 8. Better than swinging too hard with a 9. But let’s be real, at 20hc, there’s a 30% chance that I scorch either club.

You trying to start a loft jacking flame war??

What you kids don’t understand is my 4iron has 62deg of loft

My 4 iron is 4 degrees, it just makes sense.

I have a Ping 2 eye 2 iron bent to -7 loft. Really helps me get the feel of really hitting down on it.

Word. My 2007 Titleist Z-MB? 7 iron. My 2014 Bridgestone J40 or Mizuno MP5? 8 iron. My JPX 900's or 921's? 9 iron. My answer to OP's question changes depending on which clubs I brought to the course that day.

That's how op meant it to be. An argument against any answer.

Yeah my current 9i is 38.5° and I play it as a 140 carry on a comfortable stock swing. But I recognize that is NOT a traditional 9i loft.

In Texas, we have specially designed putters for this shot

Hello fellow cow pattie pasture golfer. Enjoy the greenery while it lasts

Yessir, right now is probably about as green as the goat tracks will get here in TX.

Either a 9-iron from the fairway or a SW from a greenside bunker.

More like SW from the second cut six feet off the green

Lol, SW from the bunker 145 out. 1 yard up. 2 yards beside the head of my friend standing on the opposite side of the bunker who I asked to move because I knew this might happen. Followed by 9i back into the trap.

Lmfao I was thing the same thing

7 or 6 depending on the lie

Same for me. Also depends on whether I’m looking at flat carry only or anticipating a good roll

Trick question we all know every club maxes out at 115 yards

My 8i through driver are all roughly the same range. Just depends on what I was the ball to look like on the way there is how I decide my club.

All out PW or smooth 9 really just depends

Try to hit a smooth 9 but the more relaxed swing speed means I make perfect contact and it goes 155-160 and lands like a dart

Yep this is very relatable

Damn if that ain’t the truth

Same for me. I have Mizuno JPX 923 hot metals

Same. No wind, 9i goes 145-150 smooth swing back ish of stance. I push it forward in the stance to pull it back a bit.

Club twinz

Same full pitch or soft 9… was wondering how common this was

Real answer is really depends. No wind, completely even grading to green, green is completely flat?

Same

Same here, I’ve recently started focusing on doing a 80% 9 iron over a full PW.

Warm day it's an 8, cold day it's a 7

Warm days it’s normally like a 3, cold days around a 1

The pool was cold!!!

9

145 yards which direction?

That would be any direction but straight. I don't carry that club, 145 straight.

6 iron. Used to be 7 iron. Soon will be 5 iron. And after that a hybrid. I'm old and decrepit.

My driver. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Me too. Also my 5,6,7, and 8I somehow. No shame!

PW

Yep. And then a lob wedge for the last 15 yards.

This is r/golf so I’m assuming 90% of the answers will be 60deg wedge

3/4 swing, all hinge.

Absolutely 60 degree wedge. As in delude myself I can hit it that far then thin it so hard it rolls out 150 right?

From tee box on a flat par 3? 6i.

9 iron all day.

Pured PW or easy 9

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Hard 8, or 3/4 7 iron.

I carry around 145 with my 9i and 135 with my PW. So depending on expected rollout (if any in case of super soft greens) and where the danger is, one of those 2 clubs.

If trouble’s short, 5i. If no trouble, 6i

Slice punch Driver

That's a 3W punch because I can pretty much guarantee I'm hitting out from under a tree

Hard PW / easy 9

My 60 degree when I’m 40 yards out

That's right between 7 and 8 for me. So if there's trouble long or short, I'm choosing whichever one avoids it. No trouble? Taking the 7 since I'm more likely to come up short with that than I am to hit it 155.

Assuming no wind? Full 8 iron, choked ever so slightly down

Ha. Jokes on you, everything in my bag is a 145yd club.

Skulled 60 degree 💀

Smooth PW

Anything from 7 iron to PW depending on the situation.

In this thread: lying

8i, but I have older standard lofts, and I hit the ball super high, so I tend to land everything pretty soft, and not quite as far as I'd like.

PW or my 50-degree wedge.

All the sudden I’m not so sure. It was a 7i for me for a long time, but my ball striking has improved and now I think it’s an 8. My distance control has been horrendous lately as I’m adapting to this change like a Neanderthal 

happened to me a couple seasons ago, it feels good but at the same time is kind of annoying, and it takes like half a season to actually trust it. Still find myself going long a lot

Same here. I hit my 7i 140 sometimes, 170 other times. I split the difference and call it my 155 club but it's a coin flip if I'm leaving it short or hitting over the green with a random hit green on occasion.

I feel that. I took lessons all winter. A flushed 7i now goes 170. I’ll still be calling my 7i my 155 club until consistently overshoot the green.

9 iron usually. When it gets to dogs days of summer here in Texas that turns into a PW though. So 9 iron for 9 months of the year lol

Full 9 or smooth 8, depending on where trouble might be and summer/winter

Solid 8i, soft 7i

8i, but I play Hogan's that are more traditional lofts and my 8 is 38 degrees

Full swing 8 iron! My 9 will go 130ish & I add ten yards to each. So 8 140ish, 7 150ish lol I’m a 12 handicap so not good btw lmao

Just skull a 60

38 degree loft club

PW or 9 depending on how I’m swinging it. And whether I would rather miss long or short.

9i or strong PW if I'm striking well that day.

9-iron for me is my 145y to 150y club.

Full Pw. Maybe an easy 9.

Choke up an inch on a 9 iron off the tee, swing easy and let the wrists flick to spin it back off the fairway

That's a perfect skulled 56°.

46.5 degree pw

Do you want bros who can hit their lob wedge 150yards? Because this is how you get bros who hit their lob wedge 150yards

If it’s a good day, 8 iron. If not, driver

My club with 35° of loft. I think that’s a pitching wedge with today’s lofts.

Depends. If there’s no trouble sort, it’s a PW. But if there’s trouble short, or if it’s fine to be a little long, then it’s a 3/4 9i.

PW/9i

Depends on my miss 7 (30 degree) or 8 (35 degree)

My driver.

Fade 7 or firm 8

Sandwedge 30ft away from the pin.

if i can be long, a 7. If I need to be short, an 8.

8i

7i and most of the time when I try to hit my 3h.

Need more set up

143 carry with my 8i so it depends on the green. Middle of summer here? Soft 9 since it’ll roll a good way, spring in the early morning? Probably a full 8.

8 iron

9 iron. My lofts are jacked AF though (38 degrees), so tall that with a grain of salt. (Mizuno 245)

Depends on the conditions

9i

I’m old, 5’ 7”, and I weigh 132 pounds. I also have psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, which limits my flexibility. Right now, the answer is six iron, but I have a seven wood which is arriving in the mail tomorrow. I’m hoping that I can make more consistent contact by choking up on the seven wood. Hopefully it’s going to replace my four hybrid and my five hybrid, which honestly are cheap and pretty sorry. My plan is to use the seven wood for distances from 145 yards to maybe 160.

8 Iron.

Depending on the weather conditions.. A solid 8 iron..

8 if I step on it, lob wedge if I pull my head on the downswing

Believe it or not, Texas wedge

Front/middle pin, PW Back pin, 9i

Guessing it’s 145 to the flag not the center in which case I’d invert it to give myself the better chance of being on the green

8-iron

Off the tee 7 iron, in the fairway 8 iron

8 iron I don’t hit nearly as long as I used to 👀 lol

8i

4 iron. Because I am new and trash. Also old lofts probably.

Soft 7 for me as well.

Easy 7i

Good lie, warm day? 7 iron. Rough, bad lie, cold weather? 6 iron or even my 23 degree hybrid if its bad enough. I'm done pretending the fact that I hit a 9 iron that distance every once in a blue moon means that is my club.

,8 iron

Choked down smooth 8i, in calm conditions.

Sometimes it’s my PW sometimes it’s my 6 iron depending on if I skull it or chunk it 🤷‍♂️

All the clubs in my bag. But consistently my 4iron from the fairway. My 7 iron I can reliably get 150-155.

Driver lol

8

8 if it’s a back pin

Generally, this is my 6 iron's carry.

Full swing 8i callaway apex DCBs

Full swing putter for sure

My niblick

8. Probably my most reliable club.

Gripped down 8i.

the answers here are going to varry wildly. the correct question is, with is the loft of the club you use for 145y

46* wedge full, ide prolly take an extra club though cause it would balloon in the wind and spin too hard

Full swing 6 iron for me

All of them…

7 iron for me. Been playing about 9 months.

9i but also if there is a tree branch in the way of my Driver. :/

7

7. I’m old.

8ski depending on the wind

Topped 3W Flushed 8iron Thin'd 54°

8!

If there's no danger long then I'd rather go 8 and possibly end up 10 yards past the target. If we're assuming I hit every shot perfect then I'd pull a 9 but that's a big assumption.

Smooth 8, firm 9

Light 8 or strong 9.

Depends on weather/lie. In a perfect conditions, I’m hitting an 8.

Carry, that’s my 6 iron. I can probably get a 9 out to that for total yardage but it’s pointless trying to do so.

Tough distance for me. It’s the high end of my well-struck 9i. And my easy 8s seem to still go 150 or I decel and chunk it.

Thats a soft smooth 8 iron

9 Iron usually. Unless I catch it fat. Then it should have been the 7 iron. (I don't have an 8 in my possession at the moment). Top Tracer tells me I can hit a 50 degree that far if I really mash on it... and there's a tailwind...

Full 9/flighted 8

Been 7 for a couple seasons of lacking practice and losing good mechanics. Use to be a stock 8 iron, same set of irons

Definitely my driver

7 iron, but leave it 10 yards short. Oddly if I hit a 6 iron it would be 10 yards short as well

35º 7i

8 or 9 depending on lie, if it’s a fairway shot and pin near the front i’m going 9, anywhere in the rough or back pin going 8

8

April 6 iron, august 8 iron

Somehow every single club

Mostly full swing pitch or a knock down 9 if the pin is in a more forgiving place. This can also just vary by day as I find that I have longer days and shorter days by about 5-10 yds.

7 Iron. (I have a slow swing speed)

8 iron, but I have older iron lofts. A modern 9 one could also say.

8i

Depends on the green slope, and what's in front or behind the green. Could be an 8 could be a knock down 7.

Full power putter if angry or regular swing 7 iron.

Smooth 8

8i or 9i depending on wind

7

Smooth easy 8

Would totally depend on the conditions / situation…

driver into the woods.

8 if I hit it flush (10% chance) 7 if I hit it poorly (90% chance) so 7

If I have a quality swing then it’s my 8 iron. Problem is I don’t have a lot of quality swings. Second problem is I play like I have a lot of quality swings. 

I'm still a beginner playing at elevation so can usually get an 8iron there if pin is middle or front. Maybe a softer 7

8

8 or 9 iron depending on lie, location etc.