Buying Golf Equipment
If you’ve never bought golf equipment before, shopping around for the best golf equipment out there can be daunting and confusing. There are just so many varieties of golf products and services on the market to consider: golf balls, tees, golf shirts, shoes, clubs, golf training, drivers, woods, wedges, and putters, not to mention where you should golf (private or public) and how you should go about learning the golf game.
Here one basic question you can answer to make the job a bit easier: how often do you think you’ll be playing? Do you plan to seriously pursue the game or are you just goofing around? If you’d like to learn the game, then this is the right spot for you. Golf can be an expensive hobby. Golf equipment is expensive when you add it all up, but it doesn’t have to be.
Of course if money is no object, then you’d already be at the nearest pro shop with the latest and greatest in links attire and quality golf equipment. But that’s not why you meandered onto this site.
So, now you’ve determined that you want to play this game a couple times a week when the weather’s good. The first piece of advice we can give is, don’t go overboard with golf equipment when you’re first starting out. If you’ve never played golf before, buying the latest Tiger Woods or Arnold Palmer or Jim Furyk designer golf gear will be very costly. You could end up being like Mark Twain who said, “Golf is just a long walk ruined.
Play the game a few times to see if you have “the bug” or not. Ask those who play golf regularly exactly when (not if) they got the bug. When you catch that infamous bug, that’s the time to look for quality golf equipment. Then you can’t have enough.
Our next bit of wisdom is to buy a few items: a few tees, a few balls, a driver, and a putter. You don’t need the cleated shoes, colored Polo shirts, gloves, or anything else. Get them later after you get the bug and are spending entire weekends on the courses.
The next thing we suggest is that you find the best instructor you can afford and take a few lessons before you consider purchasing anything else. I know it doesn’t fit into the golf equipment category, but in order to play the game well, you need good instruction (asking your buddies to teach you can get tedious for you and for them. And if you want to keep them as buddies…). And why not surprise them the next time you play a round with them!
There you have it, buying golf equipment. Pretty straight forward. The next post will talk about how to find good golf equipment (and less than what you might think).