Standard Golf Club Length Chart

One thing should be noted here about golf club length charts: there is no standard. That's right, every club manufacturer, from Nike to Callaway and everyone in between, including all of the component manufacturers use their own standard golf club length chart. It might look like the one below, or it might not.

The point is that there is no accepted industry wide standard. If you were to do a Google search for "standard golf club length" you would find Driver lengths ranging from 43 inches to 44 or even 45 inches long. In my opinion this is getting a bit out of hand.

Yes, a longer club generates more clubhead speed which makes for longer drives. But, the longer the club the harder it is to control. Don't let yourself get carried away here. I have had much more success with the chart below than any of the longer ones.

Ok, I'll get off my soapbox now and get back to building a club. Let's learn how to use this chart.

For example, I have determined that I need a +1/4 inch adjustment from the standard golf club length. I am building a #5 iron with a steel shaft and I can see from the golf club length chart that normally it would be 37 1/2 inches long. Adding my adjustment to that I get 37 3/4 inches for the total length of my club.

Club	Mens Steel Shaft	Mens Graphite Shaft	Womens Steel Shaft	Womens Steel Shaft
Driver	43 1/2	44	42 1/2	43
3 Wood	42 1/2	43	41 1/2	42
5 Wood	41 1/2	42	40 1/2	41
7 Wood	40 1/2	41	39 1/2	40
9 Wood	40 1/2	41	39 1/2	40
1 Iron / 3 Hybrid	39 1/2	40	38 1/2	39
2 Iron / 4 Hybrid	39	39 1/2	38	38 1/2
3 Iron / 5 Hybrid	38 1/2	39	37 1/2	38
4 Iron / 6 Hybrid	38	38 1/2	37	37 1/2
5 Iron	37 1/2	38	36 1/2	37
6 Iron	37	37 1/2	36	36 1/2
7 Iron	36 1/2	37	35 1/2	36
8 Iron	36	36 1/2	35	35 1/2
9 Iron	35 1/2	36	34 1/2	35
PW	35	35 1/2	34	34 1/2
GW	35	35 1/2	34	34 1/2
SW	35	35 1/2	34	34 1/2
LW	35	35 1/2	34	34 1/2

Now I need to subtract 1/8 inch from that to know where I need to trim my shaft. We need to subtract 1/8 inch because the grip actually sticks past the end of the shaft by that much. My actual trim length is 37 5/8 inches.

This length is measured from the intersection of the ground line and centerline of the shaft. Using a long ruler or a tape measure, mark the trim length on your shaft. Now, go ahead and trim the shaft using your pipe cutter.

Take a piece of sandpaper and clean up the edge of the cut so there are no sharp edges

9- Trim to Length Using a Standard Golf Club Length Chart