One word that gets bantered around a lot is standards. Let’s first take a look at the word “standard” and how it relates to golf clubs. According to the dictionary, it is described as:

“Something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.”

The golf industry is not tied to a universal governing body that regulates all of the specifications that clubs are built to. The closest thing to that are the United States Golf Association and the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, which does list specific rules pertaining to equipment. Some of what is covered in the “Rules of Golf” (Appendix II) is a maximum on volume (or size of the head), groove depth and width, coefficient of restitution and club length. However, many of the specifications that you may have heard of or familiar with are not regulated and the