Cost of new clubs, how much would you pay??

[MadAdey]

Even if you went out and purchased a driver with a shaft upgrade that ended up costing you £400 it is still not much really. If you use it for 2 years then it has cost you £4 a week, less than a pint of Stella. Or maybe drive your car a little bit slower could save that £4 a week.

 

[Hobbit]

Even if you went out and purchased a driver with a shaft upgrade that ended up costing you £400 it is still not much really. If you use it for 2 years then it has cost you £4 a week, less than a pint of Stella. Or maybe drive your car a little bit slower could save that £4 a week.

A little too simplistic for me Adey. Using that analogy, a Rolls Royce is cheap if you spread the cost over 25yrs. Its about disposable income too. Being able to spend £400 on a driver, along with golf fees, comp fees, beer fees, bacon butty fees means you've got to be earning a decent wedge of cash and be comfortable with your living expenses/mortgage etc.

 

[Piece]

Was up the driving range last night getting a lesson and the new Mizuno woods had just arrived and getting put out on display.

I quite fancy one, as i like Mizuno woods and the Blue crown. They happened to have a JPX850 driver with the Motore Speedster 6.3 in stock, which is the same as whats in my SLDR.

How much???

£349 for that as its a £50 up charge for that shaft, £299 for the stock shaft.


Quite a price increase by Mizuno, i paid £199 new for the MP630 when that came out.

So is that too high a price?? how much would you pay for a driver?

Was at Silvermere today and they had the new Mizuno drivers. They had the Tour Spec 6.3 Speedster shaft in one and wanted to try it. Got told i couldnt! Then i looked at the price....

...they want £499!! :mmm:

The 3w was £399.

Comedy pricing.

 

[Darren24]

Was at Silvermere today and they had the new Mizuno drivers. They had the Tour Spec 6.3 Speedster shaft in one and wanted to try it. Got told i couldnt! Then i looked at the price....

...they want £499!! :mmm:

The 3w was £399.

Comedy pricing.

now how can any one justify that price and the 3 wood 😳

 

[Craigg]

I had £300 set aside for a Driver last month. I bought a second hand G20 for £45.00. Bought a mint G20 hybrid for £50.00. Am currently spending the £205 I saved on a course of 12 lessons.
I don't reckon I could hit G30 any better/further than G20, so why waste the money.

 

[SVB]

I'm is the 'spend what makes you happy, but not a penny more' camp.

I think most of the kit on the market now, whether new or a couple of years old (may be even a bit longer for irons) is much of a muchness in terms of performance.

That said, I had a big 'x10' birthday this year so golf being my 'main thing' I splashed out on new kit incl a posh putter. Have I slashed my hcp? Do I hole everything now? No, and no. But that was never my expectation - do I like using nice kit, does the engineer in me love the milled face and flawless finish on the putter - yep!

On a purely commercial perspective, given the increasingly short produce cycle times, I guess there is a design / tooling / lifecycle cost that has to be covered as a fixed cost of launching a new product and therefore this must increase the cost per club. Also, forget the kit costs, but perhaps look at what Rory et al are being paid by Nike etc, compare that to Faldo et al 15 yrs ago an perhaps that is also a part of the story??

My 2c anyway - not sure there is an 'answer' to this one.

 

[patricks148]

Was at Silvermere today and they had the new Mizuno drivers. They had the Tour Spec 6.3 Speedster shaft in one and wanted to try it. Got told i couldnt! Then i looked at the price....

...they want £499!! :mmm:

The 3w was £399.

Comedy pricing.

thats just ripping people off, the place i saw them, the driver with the upgrade was £349, 3 woods were £249