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Used Golf Clubs

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GagHalfrunt said:
There's nothing in that bag with any resale value whatsoever. Those are the kinds of clubs that go for $3 a pop at a garage sale. Honma and Maruman have a little bit of resale value, but that's only in the Asian market and only for the latest and greatest. They're clubs for trend suckers and once they're more than a year old they might as well be from K-Mart. That stuff is ancient and almost worthless. Total value of everything pictured is under $100 including the bag.
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I agree with this guy. The golf club industry is such a racket, new everything every year, getting people to buy $1000 irons in hopes their 22 handicap and monster slice go away.
I just bought new after having a set for 7 years, got me MAYBE 2 strokes. My swing is my handicap. 😀
I'd say offer the guy $40 for that, and walk away if he doesn't take. There's better used clubs on the market for under $100.
 
The thing about used clubs are they are not designed for you. What you really need to do is go to a real golf store that will measure your height arm length and look at your swing to determine what is the best clubs for you.

Now if you are only going to dink around then by all means get some no name clubs and have fun but if you really want to take it serous then start the right way from the start and get clubs designed for you. If you get some cheap clubs and start to get into it and then you get a good set you will have to learn your swing all over again and adjust to the new clubs.
 
Jeffg010 said:
The thing about used clubs are they are not designed for you. What you really need to do is go to a real golf store that will measure your height arm length and look at your swing to determine what is the best clubs for you.

Now if you are only going to dink around then by all means get some no name clubs and have fun but if you really want to take it serous then start the right way from the start and get clubs designed for you. If you get some cheap clubs and start to get into it and then you get a good set you will have to learn your swing all over again and adjust to the new clubs.
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If you are of average height and build club fitting for beginers is over rated and can even be counter productive. If you aren't of average size, overly short or tall or round 🙂 yes club fitting will help and should be done. But the modern mantra that everyone should be fitted is just wrong and a sales gimmick IMHO.

If you are of normal size and a beginer club fitting winds up being an attempt to offset bad swing mechanics by adjusting the clubs instead of correcting a bad swing. Just because a guy addresses the ball too upright doesn't mean you should change the lie angle of the club, the player would be better served by correcting his address and swing.

Now once a player becomes more advance and their swing is grooved and mechanically sound then yes making MINOR adjustment to loft, lie angle, shaft length, and swing weight can improve and shave a few strokes of your game.

But for the vast majority of average size beginers they should start with a set of standard length, loft, stiffness, and lie angle and learn to swing them properly and fine tune the clubs once they become more accomplished.
 
DrPizza said:
I've purchased about 6 complete sets of clubs at various garage sales over the years for about $5 each set. I don't have a clue what would make one golf club worth hundreds more than another. But, as a very casual golfer, I find it really fun to ululate upon slicing into the woods, snapping my club in half over my head, and whipping the pieces down the fairway. (Then casually whistling as I walk back to my bag for another club and another ball, ignoring the faces of the rest of the foursome that are white, with their jaws dropped open.)

edit: and for what it's worth, while I suck at regular golf, I don't lose at miniature golf. (wild guess - I've played more games of miniature golf than anyone else on the forums.) And, I use the cheap crappy putters that they have at miniature golf places. Even on a real green, I can see no discernible difference between a cheap crappy miniature golf course quality putter and an expensive putter of my friends.
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No reason to bring race into this 😉

But seriously, there's definitely reason to getting decent clubs... to a point. Like with a lot of things once you get to a certain price point 99.99% of the general users of said product won't notice or need anything better. I used to think there was no reason to have anything decent too and always had cheap and 2nd had stuff. But I finally broke down and bought a decent driver... on sale as last years model, but still a good one. My drives got noticably better with my slice problem almost negated at this point. Cost a bit at $100, but not nearly as high as it used to be.
 
did anyone miss the fact that these are leftie clubs? i think theres a price modifier (cant remember if its + or -) for being lefties, especially used.
 
Spikesoldier said:
did anyone miss the fact that these are leftie clubs? i think theres a price modifier (cant remember if its + or -) for being lefties, especially used.
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Lefty clubs will always be a bit more expensive (at least new), so probably on the upperside of that range. They don't make as many and have to change their manufacturing process a bit for a smaller customer base, so they make up for that by charging more. Lefty guitars are more expensive for the same reason.
 
gorcorps said:
Lefty clubs will always be a bit more expensive (at least new), so probably on the upperside of that range. They don't make as many and have to change their manufacturing process a bit for a smaller customer base, so they make up for that by charging more. Lefty guitars are more expensive for the same reason.
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i figured the used lefty clubs would be discounted further, since lefties are in the minority of the golf market, it becomes harder to offload your old ones.
 
8/7/11 UPDATE: I sold them for $100 through Craig's List.

BTW, what does "AW" stand for?

MotionMan said:
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MotionMan
 
You did just fine on that deal and you don't need to be fitted for clubs to play golf. Christ, I have a set of clubs my Mother-In-Law bought for me at a garage sale 2 decades ago. New clubs fitted for me would do absolutely zero to improve my game. The only thing that will improve your game is practice, practice, and more practice.

I suck at golf so I gave up trying to get better at it years ago. And if anyone tells me that I suck at it because I wasn't fitted properly for clubs I'll tell you that you're out of your fucking mind.
 
MotionMan said:
Could it be Approach Wedge?

MotionMan
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It could be "approach wedge" or "all-purpose wedge" or even "Arnold the wedge", a rose by any other name. It's really just a modern pitching wedge. About 10-15 years ago a pitching wedge was 51-52* and a sand wedge was 55-56*. Since iron technology stagnated around the time of the first cavity backs they didn't know how to make irons better. They still don't. So the manufacturers cheated, they started making the irons longer and with stronger lofts so you'd hit them farther. A pitching wedge went from 52* to 48*, a 9-iron went from 48* to 44* and so on and so on. Each club became one more than it was before, so if you picked up a modern set to test against an old set you'd hit the new 9-iron as far as your old 8-iron, you'd think they were better clubs and you'd buy it. That kept for a while and technology still stagnated, so the manufacturers cheated again and went another club stronger, now some pitching wedges are 44*, they're built to the same specs as 8-irons were in the 80s and 90s. That presented a problem as you had a 44* PW and a 56* SW and nothing in between. As that's an important area for good scoring they "invented" a new club called the "gap wedge" to fill the gap left by the old pitching wedge turning into an 8-iron. But gap wedge didn't sound cool enough. The FIRST AW was for "attack wedge" so that you could "attack" the flag with it. Some after that changed to "approach wedge" because "attack" sounded too militaristic. You can pretty much use any A-word you want, it's all the same club. It's a new pitching wedge because a pitching wedge isn't a pitching wedge anymore.
 
JulesMaximus said:
You did just fine on that deal and you don't need to be fitted for clubs to play golf. Christ, I have a set of clubs my Mother-In-Law bought for me at a garage sale 2 decades ago. New clubs fitted for me would do absolutely zero to improve my game. The only thing that will improve your game is practice, practice, and more practice.

I suck at golf so I gave up trying to get better at it years ago. And if anyone tells me that I suck at it because I wasn't fitted properly for clubs I'll tell you that you're out of your fucking mind.
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Just remember, if the 20 year old clubs haven't been re-gripped they could be almost impossible to hit, you would wind up grabbing the club too tight to try to compensate for the slick gripping surface. Yeah, the practice thing is important, tough to find the time to do so for me..
 
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BUTCH1 said:
Just remember, if the 20 year old clubs haven't been re-gripped they could be almost impossible to hit, you would wind up grabbing the club too tight to try to compensate for the slick gripping surface. Yeah, the practice thing is important, tough to find the time to do so for me..
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Which makes expensive clubs an even bigger waste of money.

I haven't played golf in probably 10+ years (miniature golf doesn't count-I did that last Saturday).
 
JulesMaximus said:
Which makes expensive clubs an even bigger waste of money.

I haven't played golf in probably 10+ years (miniature golf doesn't count-I did that last Saturday).
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Yea, mine are hand-me-downs, I re-gripped 'em myself. Unless one is unusually tall or short custom fitted is a waste of $$ IMO..
 
I get my first set this weekend. My gf's dad is really into it and has a couple of extra sets... Looking forward to it
 
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