The invention includes a golf club iron head, correlated sets of
individually numbered golf club irons, methods of matching a golf club to
a golfer, and methods of matching a set of golf clubs to a golfer. In one
implementation, a golf club iron head includes a front striking face, a
sole, a toe, and a heel. The front striking face has a series of grooves
of a common cross sectional shape from the top to the bottom. Individual
grooves have a base and opposing sidewalls which diverge from the base
and extend outwardly in the direction of the front striking face. The
sidewalls include opposing protrusions extending into the groove
proximate the front striking face. In one implementation, the front
striking face of a golf club iron head defines a symmetrical groove cross
section. The groove base comprises a protrusion extending in the
direction of the front striking face. The base protrusion has an apex
received inwardly of the front striking face. In one implementation, a
correlated set of individually numbered golf club irons have heads
progressing from a high numbered head to a low numbered head. For at
least two chosen pairs of heads within the set, the grooves in the heads
are configured to provide decreasing golf ball spin in going from the
lower numbered head to the higher numbered head in the pair if the golf
ball were hit by the faces by identical impacts at the same loft angle.