Golf Club Wheel Spin: Let the Wheel Pick Your Club: how it works
This golf club wheel spin holds 20 clubs: four woods, three hybrids, seven irons, four wedges, a chipper and a putter. Spin before a shot and hit whatever it lands on. That is the random club game, and it turns a practice round into a lesson in half swings and odd lies. The card gives each club's usual loft and job.
How a random club round works
Agree the rules on the first tee. The usual version: spin before every full shot, play the club the wheel names, and putt with your own putter. The harder version spins once per hole, and that club plays the whole hole, putts included. Landed on a club you do not carry? Spin again. In Elimination a club leaves the wheel once it comes up, so nothing repeats.
Put your own bag on the wheel
The Rules of Golf cap a bag at 14 clubs, and there are 20 here, so nobody carries them all. Tap My list and type your own bag, one club per line: a random golf club generator that matches your set. Or spin one group. Irons makes a good range session. Wedges, chipper and putter is a short-game drill: drop a ball beside the practice green, spin, and get up and down with that club.
Tips
Play a two-player scramble: one spin, both hit that club, take the better ball.
On the range, switch to Tally and spin ten times. It shows which clubs you keep avoiding.
Go for the green or lay up? Hand that call to the yes or no wheel.
Questions and answers
How many golf clubs can I carry in a round?
Fourteen. Rule 4.1b says a player must not start a round with more than 14 clubs or have more than 14 during it. That is a maximum, not a minimum: you can start with fewer and add clubs up to the limit. In stroke play the penalty is two strokes for each hole where the breach happened, four at most. Checked at randa.org on 2026-09-18.
What is a one-club challenge?
A round played with a single club, putts included. A mid iron is a sound pick, because it can be hooded to run the ball and opened to lift it. Let the Irons group choose, then leave the other 13 in the car. For a three-club round, switch to Elimination and spin three times.
Are the lofts on the cards exact?
No. They are typical figures from Wikipedia's golf club articles, checked on 2026-09-18. No numbered club has a standard loft, and every maker sets its own. Irons have also grown stronger: a modern 9-iron has about the loft of a 7-iron from the 1990s.
ChipperFeels like a putter but has a more lofted face, so it counts as an iron. A two-faced chipper is not legal.
Gap wedgeCentered on 52 degrees, between the pitching and sand wedges. Also sold as an approach, attack or utility wedge.
Lob wedgeAround 60 degrees, usually the highest loft in the bag. Short-game coach Dave Pelz proposed it in the 1980s.
P-wedgeThe pitching wedge. Around 45 to 48 degrees today, down from 50 to 52 in older sets. Once sold as a 10-iron.
PutterLoft is typically 5 to 6 degrees and cannot be more than 10. The one club almost no golfer goes without.
Sand wedgeAbout 56 degrees with about 10 degrees of bounce. Gene Sarazen built his prototype in 1931 and won the 1932 British Open with it in the bag.
Woods and hybrids 7
3-hybridPart wood, part iron. Stands in for the 3-iron, at about 21 degrees.
3-woodFairway wood, typically about 15 degrees. Long shots from the fairway and lay-up tee shots.
4-hybridStands in for the 4-iron, at about 24 degrees. The 3 and 4 are the most common hybrids.
5-hybridA 5-iron replacement at about 27 degrees, seen most in ladies' and seniors' sets.
5-woodFairway wood with 18 to 21 degrees of loft.
7-woodA high-lofted wood carried in place of a long iron. More common in ladies' and seniors' sets.
DriverAlso called the 1-wood. The lowest loft of the woods, usually 9 to 13 degrees. Built for the tee.
Irons 7
3-ironLong iron, about 20 degrees in a modern set. Many golfers carry a hybrid or a 7-wood instead.
4-ironLong iron, about 23 degrees. Low launch, long carry, small margin for error.
5-ironAbout 26 degrees. Sits on the line between the long irons and the mid irons.
6-ironMid iron, about 29 degrees. A longer approach club.
7-ironMid iron, about 33 degrees. The last of the mid irons before the short irons.
8-ironShort iron, about 37 degrees. High flight for approach shots.
9-ironShort iron, about 41 degrees. The last numbered iron before the wedges.
How this list was compiled: An original list of 20 golf clubs that golfers commonly carry, written for this site on 2026-09-18 and grouped by type: 4 woods and 3 hybrids in one group, 7 irons, and 6 short-game clubs. The pitching wedge is labeled P-wedge so the name fits a slice of the 20-club wheel; its card opens with the full name. The 14-club limit was checked on 2026-09-18 against Rule 4.1b of the Rules of Golf at randa.org/en/rog/the-rules-of-golf/rule-4. Club descriptions and lofts were checked the same day against English Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_club, /wiki/Wood_(golf), /wiki/Hybrid_(golf), /wiki/Iron_(golf), /wiki/Wedge_(golf) and /wiki/Putter. Iron lofts are the modern cavity-back figures in the Iron (golf) article and hybrid lofts are from the table in the Hybrid (golf) article; both articles say the figures are a guide only, because there is no standard loft for any numbered club and every maker sets its own. Fourteen of the 20 clubs are marked as one common way to fill a bag (driver, 3-wood, 5-wood, 4-hybrid, 5-iron to 9-iron, four wedges and a putter). That bag is this site's example, not a rule. Licence: own work