Your opinion of Clone Clubs - Page 10

Once again clone clubs are totally different than copies made in China

. Most of the clubs made in South East Asia are copies and look exactly like the real clubs. Unfortunately I purchased a set from China and I was totally misinformed by the sales department. They told me that they were real clubs but after close examination the font was in the wrong place and too large, the swing weights were totally off, the grips were designed for Asians, and were the worst clubs I have ever played with and I used to be a scratch golfer.My handicap now is  a 6. I had to replace each and every club and shafts, including a driver and 3 wood. The balls were also copies, not true Pro V1.

Please

 do not purchase anything directly from China!

Not quite sure what age has to do with pulling a cart. There are enough people under 45 who have bad backs, perhaps a shoulder injury that precludes trying to put a bag on your back. I belong to a private golf club where better than 80% of the members pull a cart. To consider pulling a cart as tacky is a very elitist attitude. Do you look in disdain at the golfer that drives into your club in a rusty 95 Toyata as not worthy of being in your group because you've spent more n your clubs than they I'd in their car? I currently play OEM clubs but I used to play what you consider a clone I got into building my own clubs and ordered heads , shafts and grips. I learned about swing weights, shaft tweaking etc. my current job takes a lot of hours and I no longer have the time to do all my tweaking. I have found that evenoemproducts come in off spec in regard to lofts, lies and lengths as well. I do use iron covers. It protects my $1000 investment in irons, as well as the shaft of my driver getting dinged up by the irons bouncing into it.
Back to the clones when I played in a legue there were a l ot of guys that had the newest and greatest irons, drivers etc that couldn't break 50 for nine holes. I regularly shot par with my clones.guess how many guys had me build them clubs like mine, properly fit, these guys dropped their handicaps and shot better scores than they do with their ill fitting clubs from the oems. Judging someone by looking in their bag is not only poor form but foolish as well. Never judge until get to know someone. Remember what you say about someone reveals more about you than the person you're talking about.

I feel the same way about cloned clubs as I do about fake jordan shoes....stay away from them. Not for performance reasons so much but ebay and tons of places are available to obtain the real deal instead of buying what I like to call no other then a knock off!

my dad has a set of r11 iron clones clones(ti 11 irons) and he is very good golfer 

Its the swing not the clubs guys 

Avoid the clones -

 

You're allowing the maker to basically steal Intellectual Property from the authentic maker.

 

Buy the real thing in the used or older model bin in two years.

There's a difference between clones, fake/counterfeit and open models. Learn the difference. Everything is copied from something. You Scotty Cameron users should know this.

Spending a dime on clone clubs is moronic . You're buying a club that "looks just like " a Ping , Cobra , etc . It's the junk inside that hurts you . It's also a bit ironic that alot of guys who are offended by this criticism  of clones say they play them because  they don't want to spend big bucks , and who cares about name brands . In reality they just want people to recognize their "name " brand clubs . You get what you pay for , and even a beginner would be better off buying a cheap set of name brand clubs from a big golf warehouse store ..

You know not of what you speak in some cases. "You get what you pay for" is a moronic/ ignorant statement.