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Rookie Golfer Gets Some Club Advice
Hey Czabe,
Wondering if I could bug you for an independent opinion.
I am not an avid golfer, yet. When I have occasionally gone with friends, I end up borrowing a set or sharing clubs. I want to start going more, so planned on getting a set. Some advised me to just get a cheap complete box set for around $200 or so. Others suggested used.
I found a used set that seems to consist of early 90's clubs. Calloway Great big Bertha, and Bertha Warbirds, for the driver, 3 & 5. Wilson Staff "Ultra 45" Irons, set of 10. And an Odyssey Rossie II putter. with a bag for $150.
With my lack of skill... would I be better with Brand new cheapies, or older used quality? Will the older ones eventually get better with me vs growing out of the new, lower end set?
Any advice would be great... and who knows, maybe by next year I can convince a group to demonstrate our lack of expertise at the Bob and Brian Open.
Thanks in advance,
Chris
MY REPLY: Chris, welcome to golf! A sport that will piss you off to no end for the rest of your life! The good news is, it’ll piss your wife off that much and double!
Your eyeballing of that set from the 90’s is a perfect start. If you can lowball somebody like that down to about $100 bucks, you’ll be starting out even better.
Basically, right now, you just want a set of clubs to call your own. You have no idea whether it “fits” you correctly, because you just started playing. Only after a year or two will you know if you need something a little bit different.
So just roll with whatever used set of sticks some degenerate needs to pawn off to pay his poker debt, and get back to me in a year or so when you are considering something more fancy.
-SC
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Hi Steve:
When Bob brought up the other day the things may have been different with Brett had Irv been around, I really got to thinking. Since Holmgren, and likely Wolf departed, and his dad died, Favre has had no one to really fear. Next up, Ray Rhodes and Mike Sherman, who let him run wild. Since he didn't have accountability, he could become more of a diva with no one to bring him down to earth. By the time Thompson and McCarthy came along and weren't willing to let Brett walk all over the team, he had been unaccountable for long enough that he couldn't handle it and resented it. Hurt feelings resulted from him having to answer to someone for a change, and from fewer special "Brett rules".
I am very curious how he handles Mangini, whom I have been told by a Jets fan is hated by the players. And, wait till Mike Lupica shreds him by mid-October. Read the NY press, they are building him up and up, and they will love tearing him down.
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Hey Chris,
I hope this will help. When I first started "playing" I was similar to you, just hacking it around with friends at cheap tracks, using my dad's old blades and woods. Eventually it was time to get some clubs. I was just out of college and couldn't afford the five bills for a new set. So I hit different brands of clubs at driving ranges and the best local golf shop until I found the ones I really liked. Then I found a guy who made knock-offs of that brand. He measured me and built the clubs to my specs. Shaft length, lie angle, grip choice - all important. They were $200, for oversized, perimeter weighted irons. I then found a used driver and 3-wood I liked.
I played with those for a few years and then got good enough (consistently breaking 100...) to want better clubs, mainly more mass in the club head. I was again measured for many things and the clubs were built for me. I still play them to this day.
No matter what clubs you buy, spend the little amount of money to have the lie angle and shaft length adjusted to your height, the grips changed and have fun.
Take the time to learn the etiquette and rules of the game and if you have a hole go bad on you, please pick up your ball. Play quickly, you're not on the Tour.
Have fun, Chris.
Chris, if you're reading this, go buy Ben Hogan's book "Five Fundamentals of Golf".
Trust me, it will get you going very, very fast. It helped me big time.
I recommended it to a friend who just a few months ago had a swing that had three or four distinct parts, and he could barely hit the ball.
Played with him the other day after he got the book and practiced for a few weeks and he didn't have one really awful shot and now he is liking the game a helluva lot more.
Slow backswing...
Chris,
It's not the clubs, nor your score, nor joining a Country Club. It's the getting out of the house that matters. Nothing more, nothing less.
Noooooo. Don't pay for 15 year old clubs. Buy something like a $300 set of Adams that is on clearance. Or a new boxed set(more than $200).