Kids Clubs

[ChiChiIsMe]

Should I purchase a "kids set" or cut a couple oldies down to size?

Girl will be 5 in Dec and Boy 2 in Sept.

[iacas]

  ChiChiIsMe said:

Should I purchase a "kids set" or cut a couple oldies down to size?

Go the route of the kid's set. U.S. Kids Golf makes a good bunch, but Nike and some other folks do too.

More here: http://thesandtrap.com/clubs/buying_junior_clubs

[ChiChiIsMe]

Thanks for the link.

[hoopshot]

I recently got a Ping Moxie set for my 8yo son. It is a really nice set. I don't think they make anything for smaller kids, but the Lynx stuff at Golfsmith looks pretty nice. My son used to have a cheaper kids set we got at Academy, but didn't use it too much.

--Will

[Snowman]

I went the US Kids route, on my son's first birthday I bought him a set of the red series. Eventhough the clubs were extremely small, due to their weight, my son was not able to lift them to the top of his back swing until he turned 3.

I wound up picking up a toy set from Toys R Us. I believe the brand was Fisher Price and I was pleased with them. It came with a wheeled cart, 3 clubs and balls. The clubs were hollowed out plastic, so he had no issue swinging them. The clubs that were included each had their own characteristics resembling a driver, an iron and a putter. At 2 years old, my son would challenge me to chipping balls over the row of bushes in our yard. For the $20 some odd dollars that I had spent on them, they were a great introduction to golf for a child so young.

This year, my son has just turned 7, and for his birthday I got him the Callaway XJ set. The clubs are still a tad bit long for him, but he has gotten a huge jump in distance over the last 3 US Kids sets he has had. I figure that he will grow into them by the beginning of next season.

My son is extremely tall for his age (I am 6'6" and my wife is 6'4") so this may not be an option for your daughter until she is 8 or 9. Both the Callaway set the previous mentioned Ping Moxie set are extremely well built, but I would have your daughter measured and compare to the clubs length, being most of the time these junior clubs are available for testing before purchase.

[mcecki]

Here are golf digest's favourite kid's sets:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...7/ai_n16533438