Anyone who has ever passed by a set of golf clubs in a store or known a golfer, knows how expensive golfing can be. Equipment costs a bundle, course fees are through the roof and that doesn’t even include all the fun gadgets you want to get, so what is a golfer on a budget to do?

I will tell you what you are supposed to do, quit falling for all of the marketing hype on expensive equipment and only buy what you need. For example, I recently interviewed a local golf shop owner over the phone and we were discussing some of the new golf balls on the market. He explained to me that representatives from different companies send him golf balls to use, hoping that he will like them so much that he would recommend them to the shops customers. In the midst of this conversation he mentioned that he has tried just about every golf ball out there, and in his opinion, they all play about the same. He told me that “Titleist is probably the best ball on the market. They cost $24.99 for the dozen.” Then he laughed and said “But they are not our best seller, our best sellers cost $44.99 a box.”

I was a little shocked to say the least and asked why, “It’s all hype. People think that if the golf balls cost twice as much they are going to be twice as good.” So ask yourself this, do you fall for the marketing hype or genuinely buy a good product for an even better price?

Will those new clubs actually improve your game, or is it hype? How could they improve your game? I have worn plenty of tennis shoes but I can say that none of them have ever made me jump higher or run faster, not even the ones that said they would, so why should you believe that the latest club is going to give you a longer drive, because honestly it probably won’t.

While speaking to the Pro Shop owner he also mentioned that a friend in the manufacturing business told him that do to the saturation of the golf market, he priced his new line of clubs at three times the price of anyone else’s. What do you think the outcome was? People wouldn’t buy them and bought something else right? Wrong! In fact he sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of those clubs because golfers assumed that the higher price tag brought a superior product.

These golf manufacturers are scamming us out of millions of dollars and can set their price to anything they want because people will buy them. What does this cause, other manufacturers to say you know what I want some of that money lets raise our prices to just beneath theirs and we will make a bundle. Sadly enough, they usually do make a fortune and they are ripping you off with you even suspecting a thing.

So what can you do to save money on all this equipment. Buy the affordable stuff! Look at it, swing the clubs, more often than not you will find it to be exactly the same as those clubs that cost two or three times as much money. Usually they are even made from the same materials, they just have a different brand name.

Use your best judgment when buying any products, if a new club says it will give you more distance, find out why, what is so special about it that the club can actually do that. Even if it does, how could it possibly do that for everyone, every golfer has a different swing style, everybody hits the ball differently. With a little research you will know when you find the right equipment and chances are it will cost considerably less.

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