Which Golf clubs are most used/important?

[Daliman]

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For good to great players, this is simple.

Most important club is the putter.

Second most important club is the driver. Getting off the tee long and in the fairway is the key to making birdies and eagles.

Third most important club is the wedge.

For weaker players, I think you can reverse the wedge and driver.

For me, the list is probably something like this: (for playing a difficult course from the tips)

1. Putter
2. Driver
3. Pitching wedge
4. 3 wood
5. 6 iron
6. 4 iron
7. 7 iron
8. 5 iron
9. Sand wedge
10. 3 iron
11. 8 iron
12. 9 iron
13. 4 wood
14. Lob wedge

If the course was very tight and tough, the 3 wood become much more important (and may actually be #2). If there are long par 3's, longer irons become more important. For a muni course, 9 and 8 irons are key, since the approach is always 150 or less. This is my normal list, though.

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I am surprised that both you and offtopic rate the Driver so high. I would think that the driver would appear to be most important or close only to those that don't know much about the game, but I guess I was wrong,( I DON'T know much about the game). It seemed to me that there are plenty of great players out there that are nothing special off the tee, but I guess it IS one of the major things now seperating the man from the boys on the pro tour; pretty sure al the top 4 are big hitters.

This is what I pay you guys the big bucks for....