Golf Clubs and You: A Personal Choice
Regardless of your skill level, golf clubs are only as good as the player that is swinging them. Choosing your clubs often has more to do with the economics of golf and your ability to purchase than it does with your game. Different manufacturers make different types of clubs for varying skill levels and degrees of ability. By adding more loft to one set of clubs, they may provide better control over the ball but with less distance, while less loft may provide more distance but less height on each swing.
Over the counter golf clubs by Nike or Ping are designed to appeal to a large number of players of varying skill levels and should not be confused with custom fitted clubs. These clubs are often less expensive than other type and offer regular, recreational players good clubs at a fair price. Nike and Ping are two makers of clubs that have both over the counter clubs as well as custom fitted clubs that can actually improve a player’s game. When you are first starting out the name of the club has much less to do with your ability to play than it may as your skill progresses, so you may save yourself some money in the early stages of your golfing life by looking at lower priced sets.
Tiger Woods and other big name golf professionals have done a lot for their respective brands and their clubs have become well known pieces of equipment on courses the world over. An older more established company Ping has recently come out with the Ping i20 set which is said to provide a set of flexible options for players as all levels. Professional PGA instructors probably do more for promoting a particular brand of golf clubs or equipment more than any tour professional ever will.
Whatever type of clubs you choose, whether the Nike golf clubs or the new Ping i20, it all comes down to a personal choice. While clubs do make a difference in play today, the basic skills of the player will be the determining factor on how well the clubs actually perform. The cost of your clubs nor the name on the bag makes a good golfer. Clubs are the tools of the golfer like wrenches are the tools of a mechanic and a great golfer can use less than perfect tools and still play magnificent golf.
You can have any brand of golf clubs custom fitted for you today as long as you are willing to spend the money but you may wiser to spend money on better instruction than equipment. At the point that a professional tells you that your game needs a better set of clubs, then it would be wise to get a better set. Buying clubs should not be a matter of prestige but one of skill. When the time comes to buy new golf clubs look for the best set you can afford that fits your game.
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