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Article #156: Clone Golf Clubs- Are They Worth It?- Part 1

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Why would anyone want to use clone golf that sell for very low prices in
clubs instead of the real brand the department stores or low cost web sites,
clones are mimicking? Obviously the for example. They only survive because
answer is to save money, and that is they can sell their output at low prices.
understandable. Drivers can easily cost So would it be a surprise if lower
$400-500, and some hybrids cost over $200 quality raw materials were used, like
each. These days a good set of clubs can scrap metal instead of carbon steel?
be a significant investment, so there is Could their machines hold the same
certainly a temptation to save money if tolerances as the quality foundries do?
at all possible. How might one approach Can they afford to train their employees
this using clone golf clubs? to the same level? Do they use the same
Three Ways to Purchase Clone Golf Clubs quality golf shafts in their clubs? If
This article will discuss three ways to they are selling low cost products on
purchase clone golf clubs. The more money thin margins, they will probably cut
one is willing to pay, the less risk corners wherever possible. Let's just put
there is in obtaining a high quality set. it this way: you are not going to get a
Let's examine these three approaches. $169 club for $39, no matter how much the
Purchase Ready Built Clones two may be made to look the same.
Of course you can go to one of many web Make Your Own Clubs
sites selling clone golf clubs and simply A less risky alternative is purchasing
make a purchase. These golf clubs often the components and assembling the clubs
look like those from Calloway, Titleist, yourself. To end up with a higher quality
or other major brands, but they are product you need to be sure the heads are
substantially less expensive. This is the manufactured in a quality foundry. There
most risky alternative. If you pay $39 are component suppliers who are reputable
for a club that looks just like a brand and who can prove they sell top quality
name club priced at $169, are you getting parts. As for shafts, there is a large
the same thing? Was the club made in the component market for shafts from the top
same factory and on the same machinery as companies like Aldila, Grafalloy or True
the brand name club or at another with Temper, among many others, who supply the
equivalent quality? Was it manufactured major brand club companies as well.
using raw materials of the same quality Quality grips are also readily available.
and to the same tolerances? The chances Assembling clubs and grips is not that
of all that being the case are small. difficult. Golfsmith sells components and
Let's examine this for a moment. can instruct you how to do this. Not too
Outsourcing of Club Manufacturing many tools are required, and Golfsmith
The vast majority of clubs sold by the can also provide support at either their
major brands are outsourced to factories retail stores or on the phone. The main
in low wage parts of the world. Of the problem with this approach is that you
less than 100 foundries in the world need to know which components to
which make golf clubs, only a small purchase, which heads, what type of
number have the solid quality systems in shaft, etc. This will be discussed in
place to interest the major brand golf more detail below.
club companies. The others produce clubs






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