How To Organize A Golf Bag (14-Way, 8-Way, 6-Way, & 4 ... - Jim Furyk

How to Organize A 14 Slot Golf Bag

14 slots, so that means 1 slot/divider for every golf club. The driver, since it’s the longest club in the set and has the largest head, goes right in the top slot. Then your hybrids and then irons followed by wedges and your putter. You see, it’s not all that complicated or time-consuming to be honest.

Now in case you decide to place the driver or larger wood in the bottom or middle slot, you’re only just making it harder for yourself each time you want to remove the other clubs placed around it. So larger woods and drivers should be kept in the top for convenience, even in terms of storage and transport in a compact boot/trunk. No harm done either!

Also, the longest golf club is the driver, therefore all the more reason to place it in the top to prevent its delicate shaft from literally clashing with chunky irons. Driving irons and irons, then, have to be arranged in an ascending order based on the loft angles. This would mean that you start with the 4-iron. Thus, the lowest loft goes in the bottom.

Even the wedges are placed in an ascending order. Irrespective of how many wedges you carry, the pitching wedge gets stored first, then gap wedge, then sand wedge, and the last to be placed inside is the lob wedge.

What about the putter? A 14-slot structure comes with a separate putter well, so that’s where your putter is stored.

With a 14-slot type golf bag, organizing clubs is the easiest. And these bags, more often than not, are cart bags (so that implies a higher price tag too). Hence, mostly used by scratch and professional golfers.

How to Organize A 8 Slot Golf Bag

Now you’re dealing with a comparatively smaller capacity 8-way or 8-slot golf bag. In this type too, your golf clubs should be placed with the highest lofts beginning from the top – driver and woods at the top, then hybrids and irons, and then your wedges. The putter, once again, gets stored inside the separate putter well.

So it’s pretty much the same organizing a 14-way and 8-way golf bag except that in the case of the latter, similar clubs are paired up together for storage in the same compartment or divider. And this is important because you have to leave a slot for the putter.

GOLF CLUBs PAIRED	GOLF BAG SLOT
Driver and 3 wood	Slot 1
20-degree and 23-degree hybrids	Slot 2
4 and 5 irons	Slot 3
6 and 7 irons	Slot 4
8 and 9 irons	Slot 5
Pitching wedge and gap wedge	Slot 6
Sand wedge and lob wedge	Slot 7
Putter	Slot 8

But then, at this point, I think I should also add that if you carry a full golf club set, then you’d be better off with a 14-way golf bag. But if not, then 8-way seems just about perfect. It’s a more lightweight option for sure, which makes it so much easier and more comfortable to carry during your 18-hole or 9-hole walk.

How to Organize A 6 Way Golf Bag

6-way golf bags are perfect for when 14-way storage is just too big. With 6 slots, you can very accessibly keep your long-game golf clubs separate from your short-game golf clubs, with your irons placed between the two.

Unlike a 14-way bag, this one’s more lightweight to carry yet it’s not insufficient in terms of storage, protection, and organization of your expensive clubs.

• Driver / 3 wood at the top.
• Other woods / hybrids in the next two slots.
• Irons in the two compartments in the middle.
• And then wedges and your putter at the bottom.

How to Organize A 4 Slot Golf Bag

The most lightweight of all, a 4-way golf bag allows you to place/retrieve your clubs the most quickly because, in this particular scenario, you don’t really need to fit them in their exact, respective compartments.

Also, it’s the best choice for you if you walk the whole length of the golf course, hence easy, comfortable, pain-free carry.

• Driver / fairway woods at the top.
• Long irons stored in the center-left.
• Then mid and short irons go into the center-right section.
• And lastly, wedges + putter in the bottom.