£300 for a driver or putter which one.

Just had a putter custom fit and replaced my old putter due to the data from Quintic system and using Edel fitting. In all cost me £400. But already seeing the benefits from the change.
 
Paid £225 for my Scotty 5 years ago, probably had 5 drivers (all promising the earth) and 5 sets of irons countless hybrids since.

Scotty will be in bag for a few years yet current wedges are around 3 years old and will only get changed when worn (pretty soon)

Always searching for the holy grail.......
 
3565 said:
Just had a putter custom fit and replaced my old putter due to the data from Quintic system and using Edel fitting. In all cost me £400. But already seeing the benefits from the change.
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I feel better about the £280 I just spent on my Scotty now!
 
Tashyboy said:
I am not after either now I own the odyssey two ball wand. And the Ping G30 forum distance driver.
but I read on here the other day about a Scotty Cameron putter that looks like it was designed on Star Trek and is £259. I thought that's ridiculous. But I then thought about when TM had my pants down for over £300 for the SLDR and thought, well I have kept my putter for four year with no intentions of changing it in the very near future.

I know there's an old saying " drive for show, putt for dough", but I would put " Mr up and down in two" with that.

BUT, If you had £300 burning an hole in your pocket, which would you buy.
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For £300 I would buy a new set of clubs, to include a putter, driver and bag. With the change I would have a nice holiday, and probably still have enough left to buy some fish and chips.

Today's £300 club is tomorrows £25 club, so wait until tomorrow. It is impossible for golf technology to move fast enough to justify this sort of cost, so by buying the previous model at a fraction of the cost will make virtually no difference. The golf industry is no different to the fashion industry, and relies on the vulnerability and stupidity of a percentage of people. Very good players can play with anything, so work on being very good, and don't expect expensive equipment to do it for you.

However, that aside, the answer is what others have already said, and that's the one you need the most.
 
I think I would invest them in golf lessons, to be honest. I play an apprx. 30 year old Slotline putter I got off ebay and I would not want to trade that in for any other putter in the world at the moment. And I play a driver that comes under the sliglty dodgy brand name EagleGolf (also off ebay, I paid 5 € for it) and even though I seriously tried in the last couple of months, I could not anything that performs better for me at the moment. So I guess it is a case of "It's not the arrow it's the Indian" with me. Lessons it is.
 
im always looking at scottys,pick them up and have a little putt on the shop floor then walk away shaking my head .
im afraid that im in the "its the indian not the arrow " camp
 
WWG said:
For £300 I would buy a new set of clubs, to include a putter, driver and bag. With the change I would have a nice holiday, and probably still have enough left to buy some fish and chips.

Today's £300 club is tomorrows £25 club, so wait until tomorrow. It is impossible for golf technology to move fast enough to justify this sort of cost, so by buying the previous model at a fraction of the cost will make virtually no difference. The golf industry is no different to the fashion industry, and relies on the vulnerability and stupidity of a percentage of people. Very good players can play with anything, so work on being very good, and don't expect expensive equipment to do it for you.

However, that aside, the answer is what others have already said, and that's the one you need the most.
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this may be true of drivers and maybe irons, but not the specialist putter like Scotty Cameron etc. i have 5 and i could sell all of those for more that i paid for them, with the exception of one and that's the one i got first, but its only £20.

i would pay more for a putter than a driver no question, after all you use it on every hole and could last you your whole golfing life, not sure that would be the case with any other club.
 
swanny32 said:
How many times do you use your driver in a round, 6-9 times? How many times do you use your putter, every single hole at least once more than likely.
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Undoubtably. But that's not the queston, is it? The question is: do you think buying a new putter for 300 quid is going to change your game. And I think, even if you had all the dwarves of Moria hammer a putter from pure mithril silver for you, it probably would not make that much of a distance.
 
Capella said:
Undoubtably. But that's not the queston, is it? The question is: do you think buying a new putter for 300 quid is going to change your game. And I think, even if you had all the dwarves of Moria hammer a putter from pure mithril silver for you, it probably would not make that much of a distance.
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actually the question was if you had a spare £300 would you buy a driver or putter.. as some have said a putter would be better value IMO.
 
patricks148 said:
this may be true of drivers and maybe irons, but not the specialist putter like Scotty Cameron etc. i have 5 and i could sell all of those for more that i paid for them, with the exception of one and that's the one i got first, but its only £20.

i would pay more for a putter than a driver no question, after all you use it on every hole and could last you your whole golfing life, not sure that would be the case with any other club.
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So if there so bloody good why did you have to buy 5 ?
 
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