Custom Golf Clubs

Although you can buy golf clubs "off the shelf" it is also worth exploring the oppportunity of having a custom set of clubs built for you. In this article we will discuss the pros and cons of owning a set of custom developed clubs.

We all know the big names such as Titleist, Callaway, Mizuno and the other leading clubmakers, but in the last few years their have been a number of companies that have taken advantage of being able to buy the same components and build clubs that perform just as well as the big brands.

It is not always important to have brand name clubs. It is more important to have clubs which work for you and are tailored to both your physical strengths and golfing strengths.

Let's take a look at a list of companies that provide custom club components and some of the prices you might expect to pay.

Let's say we want to tailor make our own driver or we want to buy the components to make our own driver. How much will we pay.

Grip
Lets not muck about here and lets go for a top of the range grip from Golf Pride. The Golf Pride Tour Wrap grip will set you back $2.30

Shaft
Again, we are only talking quality here so we will go for a top of the range shaft from Accuflex, the Accuflex Tour Elite at $21.95

Clubhead
With the clubhead we are going to go for one of the lesser known brands but a company that produce clubheads that are clones of the leading manufacturers. The P5G is a clone of one of the leading Ping clubs and can be bought for $59.95

So you can buy yourself the components to a driver which will perform just as well as any of the leading clubs on the market for $84.20. Ok you will need to get a clubmaker to put the components together for you but that should not make it much more expensive and each element will be custom fitted to your own specification.

Custom fitting golf equipment involves several easy measurements and a quick self-assessment of your game. You will see many fitting methods out there in the golf universe, but most of them center around the same pieces of information. This method is simple, accurate, and effective. To custom fit your golf clubs, you need to know:

Gender is used to put you into the correct fitting scale. The golf industry uses different definitions of "standard length" for men and women.

Your height and the distance in inches from your wrist to the ground are used together to determine the length of golf club that is appropriate for you. The starting point for club length can vary up to 3 1/2" ranging from ladies to mens plus 1 1/2". A tall person with long arms can very easily require shorter clubs than an average height person with short arms. About 85% of golfers are Standard length.

Your age, handicap (if you happen to have one), self-assessed skill level, estimated golf swing speed and club you use at the 150 yard marker are all combined to determine the shaft flex that is appropriate for you.

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