Yukon High Lofted Fairway Woods

Pinemeadow Golf Yukon High Lofted Fairway Woods

Hybrids are a great development for the iron deficient, but try as they might, some people just can’t get the hang of them. For those, the option is a broader set of fairway woods. But it’s hard to find woods other than the standard fare of three, five and seven. Frankly, it’s hard sometimes to even acquire a seven. I’ve got an Adams nine wood, and I think I’ve seen nines from other manufacturers, but not often.

Pinemeadow golf has a nice looking solution for players who’d like to substitute irons for woods. Their Yukon fairway metals come in 3, 5, 7, 9 11, 13 and 15 woods. A five wood is the rough equivalent of a two iron, and a seven wood, a four; these are thus the equivalent of a full set of irons. Check out the specs on these.

The Yukons have a slightly longer than usual toe to heel length and a dual rail sole to help ease the club through difficult lies. I like designs with the rails—something I think I first saw in the LaJolla knife—although that was far more pronounced. I’ve built a couple of clubs with rail bottoms and found they work as advertised.

The only missing thing in this set, I think, is a four wood. That’s a club I’ve seen around—I have an old Yonex four wood with a graphite head that I picked up at a garage sale—and that I’ve read is a nice alternative for most golfers to carrying both a three and a five, which I do.