Do you call them "woods" or "metals"?

[baylrballa]

The bigger, roundish clubs that go a long way, what do you refer to them as?


follow-up question.
Are you still able to hit a ball 'on the screws'?

 

[ULEWZ]

I call them a Driver.

 

[baylrballa]

I call them a Driver.

3-driver, I like it.

 

[scott.french3]

I think Ken Venturi tried to call them metals. Always seemed wrong every time he said it. I call them woods. I'm a traditionalist, I guess. Maybe we should start calling Tiger Woods "Tiger Metal"? lol

 

[YukonLiving]

Woods. Or driver and fairway.

 

[Scarnici]

I call them woods

 

[RealPretendPsychic]

Woods and/or boomsticks.

 

[BriMac]

I cringe when I hear 3-metal on a broadcast.

 

[JMB3]

Woods and/or boomsticks.

I’m going to start calling my 5w a “boomstick”

 

[Muchmore]

I get why the metal name is a thing but I still call them woods

 

[GraniteRoost]

Play club. Brassie. Spoon.

 

[Turtlerancher]

The bigger, roundish clubs that go a long way, what do you refer to them as?


follow-up question.
Are you still able to hit a ball 'on the screws'?

What if your woods don't go a long way? Are they still woods?

 

[Tee1Up]

I say Driver, three wood, five wood

 

[Raiderboost]

Definitely still woods. Reason being is that I hit them into the woods!:facepalm:

 

[KY Golfer]

I say Driver, three wood, five wood

 

[NeverWiff]

Woods. most definitely.
"Metals" just sounds way too forced and awkward

 

[baylrballa]

Definitely still woods. Reason being is that I hit them into the woods!:facepalm:

welp, I'm totally going to use that moving forward. haha

 

[NeverWiff]

I think Ken Venturi tried to call them metals. Always seemed wrong every time he said it. I call them woods. I'm a traditionalist, I guess. Maybe we should start calling Tiger Woods "Tiger Metal"? lol

I'm sure he's got plenty of metal in him at this point!!!

 

[BH 43]

I call them woods and occasionly hit them in the screws.

 

[Snickerdog]

It is a 3W not a 3M.

 

[tahoebum]

Play club. Brassie. Spoon.

I've carried a brassie for most of my rounds the last 35 years and sometimes call it that just to mix it up. My 15 year old daughter is definitely the only one on her high school golf team that knows the golf terms brassie and spoon, lol.

 

[BigMac]

The "metals" thing is like nails on a chalkboard to me. I don't care what they're made of, they're freaking fairway woods.

 

[GraniteRoost]

The "metals" thing is like nails on a chalkboard to me. I don't care what they're made of, they're freaking fairway woods.

Seriously. The "fairway metals" term makes me cringe. Hard.

 

[baylrballa]

The "metals" thing is like nails on a chalkboard to me. I don't care what they're made of, they're freaking fairway woods.

I agree, but I didn't think it would be a shut out.

 

[GraniteRoost]

I agree, but I didn't think it would be a shut out.

People on this forum have good taste (mostly)