How do you load your golf bag?

[Fas1975]

I've just been given a cart bag with 14 full length club dividers, I have a stand bag with 6 dividers. I've got the stand bag arranged so that the woods and driver are at the top, long irons over the short irons and then putter at the bottom, so that when it's in the stand position, the clubs are presented in height order.

How do you store the clubs in a cart bag, is it personal preference or is there a proper way?

[pimpin gimp]

Longest clubs at the top so they overlap the shorter irons and don't hit the club heads below. Putter usually has it's own well doesn't it?

[Fas1975]

Yes, the bag I have has it's own putter well. Will play around with some configs this week, some internet suggestions are woods and long irons down the left, short irons / wedges down the right with driver in middle but that doesn't make too much sense to me.

[Phil Dicky]

pimpin gimp said:

Longest clubs at the top so they overlap the shorter irons and don't hit the club heads below. Putter usually has it's own well doesn't it?

just how I do it

[Landlord]

My bag dividers are "domed" as in, the middle ones are higher/deeper than the ones around the perimeter. I, therefore, put my woods in the middle four slots, my 4 and 5 iron either side (left and right of the woods) and then sweep around from the 5 with 6 through to 9 on the bottom (the bit that leans closest to my trolley). My PW and SW and putter around upper perimeter.

It's funny but if I, or anyone else, puts the club in the wrong place, it really throws me. The other day I took what I thought was a mid-length pitch shot only to have it sail way past the green. I looked and I'd used a 5 iron Shows I don't take enough notice of my club when addressing the ball (I am a newbie of only two months or so, in my defence).