fact may be due to the driver being facilitated by the use of a tee and the fairway wood’s primary use is off of the ground.

In comparison to size, the volume of a traditional wooden #3-wood is approximately 150cc while the first series for metal woods had the volume closer to 120cc. As mid-sized metal woods came into existence, the #3-wood grew to approximately 160cc. This is where on average the average volume (+/-30cc) has stayed ever since.

The only exception was around 1998 where you saw clubheads that fell beyond these dimensions. First, there were extremely shallow face height woods, following the lead by the Adams Tight Lies that the #3-wood was in the 115cc range. These extremely playable clubs has one downside and that was they were perhaps too shallow that a golfer could run the club underneath the ball in the deep rough during the swing. To the other extreme, the late 1990s