As the name suggests, these clubs were used primarily from the fairway to enable the player to hit the ball up the fairway on par 5 and long par 4 holes.
As the driver is almost impossible to hit from the fairway, woods are used to fill the distance gap that long irons could not reach. They are shorter than the driver with a club head which resembles the driver in that it has a hollow head, although they are significantly smaller. The heads are mostly made of steel although a number of models have started to use titanium, while the shafts are more often graphite rather than steel. | 
