THOUGHTS…Is it better to buy name brand golf clubs, generic size, or no name custom fit clubs?
December 13, 2009 by admin
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I AM LOOKING TO GET A NEW SET OF IRONS THIS SEASON. AT 6′0", 215 LBS FIT WITH A SWING SPEED OF ABOUT 80-90 MPH, I AM WHAT YOU WOULD CONSIDER A "MIDDLE-HANDICAPPER". AFTER DEMOING SEVERAL CLUBS AND READING MANY REVIEWS, THE NIKE SLINGSHOTS ARE THE FRONT RUNNERS. HOWEVER, SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME THAT I WOULD GET MORE FOR MY MONEY IF I GOT CUSTOM FIT, NO NAME BRAND CLUBS. YOUR THOUGHTS ARE WELCOME. THANKS! (SORRY FOR THE CAPS, YAHOO THINKS IT IS RUDE!)
Either way you decide to go you should get the irons custom fit. For some reason the golf consumer believes that name-brand clubs off the rack are "better." This is simply false.
If the average Joe could witness the hours of tweeking that go into a touring pro’s clubs, then they’d realize that it’s not the name on the clubhead, it the custom fitting that makes it all work.
To get everything just right, your swing has to be analyzed either with computer or by lots of experimentation or, preferably, by both.
A book that you may benefit greatly from is Tom Wishon’s "The Search for the Perfect Golf Club." (See link 1)
See link 2 for a quick Q&A discussing custom clubfitting.
No, I do not work for nor am I associated with Wishon Golf in any way, shape, or form. I actually play a set of Golfworks irons, TaylorMade driver (a gift…would never have spent that much on a driver), and a SeeMore putter (like Payne Stewart’s).
Search on Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, (I forget which mag) a few years ago had a great article on the titanium drivers, they rated a bunch of them. The cheap clubs did just as well as the pro clubs– they were swung by a machine so it was a fair test and they were all swung identically.
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expensive clubs does not a good golfer make.
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Yoda
Either way you decide to go you should get the irons custom fit. For some reason the golf consumer believes that name-brand clubs off the rack are "better." This is simply false.
If the average Joe could witness the hours of tweeking that go into a touring pro’s clubs, then they’d realize that it’s not the name on the clubhead, it the custom fitting that makes it all work.
To get everything just right, your swing has to be analyzed either with computer or by lots of experimentation or, preferably, by both.
A book that you may benefit greatly from is Tom Wishon’s "The Search for the Perfect Golf Club." (See link 1)
See link 2 for a quick Q&A discussing custom clubfitting.
No, I do not work for nor am I associated with Wishon Golf in any way, shape, or form. I actually play a set of Golfworks irons, TaylorMade driver (a gift…would never have spent that much on a driver), and a SeeMore putter (like Payne Stewart’s).
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1) http://www.wishongolf.com/designs/books/search_for_the_perfect_club/
2) http://www.wishongolf.com/designs/books/TWGT-12_Myths.pps
Attended Golfsmith Clubmaking and Fitting school, Austin, Texas
Try Mizuno in Atlanta. They are well-known brand, forged and if you have guts good blade. They have custom fit division. You get the best of both world. I play with six handicap, have four sets of iron, Mizuno MP33, 29, Nike Blade, Titleist 690 MB and found Mizuno MP33 is the best. They are custom-made of me. Takes more than three weeks to get it done though, plus some delivery time. PS. Mizuno also have forge but not blade as well.
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http://www.mizunousa.com/home04.nsf/golf?OpenForm
I would recommend a few different solutions
if you just want to play a few times and have fun during the month I would recommend buying a generic brand, you are not going to get better but you are not going to feel the difference between generic and original
if you want to improve go ahead and get fitted and lessons, don’t spend a lot of money until you get a handicap which you are comfortable. when you do that go ahead and buy the clubs that you want, either if they are fitted or just brand names
if it makes you feel better and you like them it will help you to play better
remember this
if you are not comfortable with the clubs or you don’t like them you are not going to play good golf
hope that it helps
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