How to Purchase 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’s a common yet basic question you can answer to make your job a little easier: how often do you think you’ll be playing the game in a given month or week? What are your plans long term? A hobby? Just putzing 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 your pockets are overflowing with money, then you’d already be at the nearest pro golf shop suiting up with the latest in attire and quality equipment. But that’s not why you moseyed on over here, is it?
So, now you’ve determined that you want to play this game a couple of times a week in the summer (or when the weather’s good). The first piece of advice we can offer is, you don’t need to go overboard with golf equipment in the beginning. If you’ve never played golf before, going out and purchasing the latest Tiger Woods or Arnold Palmer designer golf gear could be very expensive and you could end up being like Mark Twain of old 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.
Find the best instructor you can afford in your area and take a few lessons before going on a spending spree. To play the game well, you need top notch lessons on the course (asking your pals to teach you can get obnoxious for all involved. That is, if you want to keep them as pals…). Why not surprise them the next time you play a full round with them? Knock their socks off!
There you have it, our first post on buying golf equipment.Our next post will discuss how to find good golf equipment (and cheaper than what you might think).