Fairway woods are one of the two types of wood clubs in a golf club set. The woods are the longest clubs in a set with bulging clubfaces and flattened soles. The fairway woods are numbered 2 to 9. They are the shorter clubs in the woods set used for hitting the ball off the turf. Fairway woods have shallower face heights, shaft lengths of 40 to 48 inches, and lofts at 7.5 to 31 degrees. Woods used to have clubheads made of maple or persimmon wood. Today, they are also called metalwoods because they are now made of hollow steel, composite materials, or titanium. The most commonly used fairway woods are 3 and 5, while 4, 7, and 9 are used only occasionally.
Steel Fairway Woods used to be the standard fair woods, but they have now been largely overtaken by the Titanium Fairway Woods. They have a clubhead size of 250 cubic centimeters or less.
Titanium Fairway Woods are lighter and stronger than Steel Fairway Woods. They can be forged to have larger clubheads to become more forgiving when swinging. They can be cast up to the USGA limit of 460 cc.
