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I have read so many posts about "equipment I can buy to improve my game." I have read about what have to be some awful swings. What is wrong with taking lesson or two and developing a swing and then get equipment. Game improving golf clubs have a limit on just how much improvement can be made. Imagine how good you would be with a good swing and good equipment.

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I have read so many posts about "equipment I can buy to improve my game." I have read about what have to be some awful swings. What is wrong with taking lesson or two and developing a swing and then get equipment. Game improving golf clubs have a limit on just how much improvement can be made. Imagine how good you would be with a good swing and good equipment.

You're making the assumption that people are choosing one over the other. You know what they say about assuming.

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Golf clubs are golf clubs. If you make a good strike and the ball flies straight the club wont matter much in terms of progress. I'm learning to improve my game with crappy irons. If I can get good with crappy gear, I'll be that much better when I decide to upgrade.

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Golf clubs are golf clubs. If you make a good strike and the ball flies straight the club wont matter much in terms of progress. I'm learning to improve my game with crappy irons. If I can get good with crappy gear, I'll be that much better when I decide to upgrade.

Very good! I played with a set of clubs (Driver, woods, irons, putter) that I got from Walmart for $150 until I started scoring in the 70's. If only everyone else had the same attitude!

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Golf clubs are golf clubs. If you make a good strike and the ball flies straight the club wont matter much in terms of progress. I'm learning to improve my game with crappy irons. If I can get good with crappy gear, I'll be that much better when I decide to upgrade.

That is your choice. I would have rather had something that I felt comfortable and confident with before working on my swing. Confidence is a major plus in golf.

Very good! I played with a set of clubs (Driver, woods, irons, putter) that I got from Walmart for $150 until I started scoring in the 70's. If only everyone else had the same attitude!

Same thing.

As for the OP, I dont think many people choose one over the other. I chose my equipment and still do based on how my game goes.
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I have been told serveral times that I shouldn't buy new equipment until I get my swing to where I want it to be ... with a proper swing you can increase swing speed and that will determin which type of shaft that you should be using.

Fix the swing, get sticks to match the final swing, there is something to this custom fitting technology ... hopefully it catches on!

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I have read so many posts about "equipment I can buy to improve my game." I have read about what have to be some awful swings. What is wrong with taking lesson or two and developing a swing and then get equipment. Game improving golf clubs have a limit on just how much improvement can be made. Imagine how good you would be with a good swing and good equipment.

Unlike some, errr, ummm, others - I don't think you said anything about "one

or the other". If you are talking about the number of threads that seem to be saying "I would be shooting 78 if I had the "best" driver, new irons, a Vokey wedge and the right putter", I agree with you completely. You can't buy a golf game.

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By the way, custom fitting does not only work on "final swing". It can work on anybodys swing.

Agreed! But in the terms of COST ... it probably is a better idea than to get fitted, change your swing and that club that you just bought dosen't actually work for you anymore ...

Work out the swing first, becasue with the best equipment and a poor quality swing it's kinda like putting 'lipstick on a pig'
In my Bag:

Driver: Burner 10.5* Stiff shaft
3 WoodBurner 15* stiff shaft
5 WoodBurner 18* stiff ShaftHybrid3DX (18.5*)Irons: (4-LW):Putter: Rossa Indy SportBalls: Reds
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I havent been here as long as you, but I have never seen a thread that says anything like that.

No, none of them "say" that.

It's a little thing I like to call "reading between the lines". It's also a little thing I like to call remembering what I did, watched my friends do and see people doing here. Golf club marketing is very seductive.

Best, Mike Elzey

In my bag:
Driver: Cleveland Launcher 10.5 stiff
Woods: Ping ISI 3 and 5 - metal stiffIrons: Ping ISI 4-GW - metal stiffSand Wedges: 1987 Staff, 1987 R-90Putter: two ball - black bladeBall: NXT Tour"I think what I said is right but maybe not.""If you know so much, why are you...

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I am not sure that the cost is greater at all.

Really? How so?

Let me explain my train of thought here ... I buy a driver and get fitted, for say, $199 and it's a regular flex shaft ... then I take some lessons, get on a workout program and generally become a better golfer. That regular flex shaft isn't going to work for me anymore and then I have to go out and buy another driver/shaft combination for another $199 ... It's still expensive for me even with a trade-in/outright sale of the original club ... I have just "bought twice" for a product that I really only needed once ... That's just my thought process there - *shrug* just the way I think ...
In my Bag:

Driver: Burner 10.5* Stiff shaft
3 WoodBurner 15* stiff shaft
5 WoodBurner 18* stiff ShaftHybrid3DX (18.5*)Irons: (4-LW):Putter: Rossa Indy SportBalls: Reds
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Agreed! But in the terms of COST ... it probably is a better idea than to get fitted, change your swing and that club that you just bought dosen't actually work for you anymore ...

I'm offended by your comment alluding to the Republican Vice Presidential Candidate. How dare you sir!

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... Republican Vice Presidential Candidate.

No, she's hot!

BMan - even still, replacing the shaft is an addiontional cost that could have been avoided by initially purchasing the correct equipment ...
In my Bag:

Driver: Burner 10.5* Stiff shaft
3 WoodBurner 15* stiff shaft
5 WoodBurner 18* stiff ShaftHybrid3DX (18.5*)Irons: (4-LW):Putter: Rossa Indy SportBalls: Reds
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Really? How so?

I have first hand experience here, so I'll toss a few cents in too. I took up golf last year, had some free clubs that I had been given by various people to get me started, mixed bag, but they were free. Took 12 1 hour private lessons over the course of the season, intermixed with time at the range and on the course.

I got fitted this spring for a propper set of irons (had an incomplete set and many of the clubs were 20-30 years old). I have continued to take lessons, about 8 or 9 so far this season. This summer it became clear that my driver was a problem, it was offset with a light flex shaft (again it had been free), I'm 37 and in pretty good shape and my swing speed is climbing as I improve my mechanics. Got fitted and got a new driver. My teaching pro suggested a stiff flex shaft. So that's what I bought. I was not able to get it to work consistently for my game...at the range when I have time to hit a few balls and adjust my swing I was able to bomb it. But out on the course I did not have the confidence to swing full power with it and was not able to get it around quickly enough to close the face. I bought the same driver with regular flex shaft and love it. I only have 9 holes on it, but 5 of 7 drives were long and in the middle of the fairway, the other 2 were my first 2 drives ever with the club, they were power fades that I was able to play. In contrast the previous day with the stiff flex I may have had 2 holes in 14 drives where the ball was in the middle of the fairway. I will continue to take lessons, I have no doubt that as I continue to develop my swing will change. It won't surprise me if next year I do need to go to a driver with a stiff shaft, but for now, the regular flex makes the game a lot more fun for me. I agree that lessons and practice are the best way to improve your game. But, while you shouldn't expect that new set of SGI irons to take 10 strokes off your score, the right gear for your current game can make it a lot more fun.
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