sweatysock41
Q-School Graduate
As I mentioned in an earlier post I'm currently in the US and today visited a Golf Superstore to get a feel for what the price of things were and what was available in the store for you to try. What a difference from the UK - I'm thinking AG, Direct Golf etc.
This place had 10 bays where you could hit any of the display clubs and each bay had a trackman. No limit on the number of balls/time spent in the bay - only stipulation was if it was busy to consider others who would want to use the bays. They also had dedicated manufacturers fitting areas for TM and Callaway.
With regards to prices the best deals were last year's balls e.g. TM Penta $29 a dozen. Current balls are a little cheaper but not much. Irons e.g. set of TM R11 3-PW $899 current exchange rate is about £1 = $1.6 so that would be about £560. Not a huge difference.
What was surprising was the number of boxed up demo sets of current clubs available e.g. Titleist AP1 3-PW (712) $619.99 , yes there were some indications they had been hit in the bays but for all intents and purposes they were as new. This was where a real saving could be made.
I appreciate that it is the main golf store in this state Connecticut but the state is small and you can drive from one end to the other in a couple of hours so could a store like this exist and operate profitably in the UK or do we need a better infrastructure to make it practical? I don't know but it was certainly an eye opener as to what a golf store could be.
This place had 10 bays where you could hit any of the display clubs and each bay had a trackman. No limit on the number of balls/time spent in the bay - only stipulation was if it was busy to consider others who would want to use the bays. They also had dedicated manufacturers fitting areas for TM and Callaway.
With regards to prices the best deals were last year's balls e.g. TM Penta $29 a dozen. Current balls are a little cheaper but not much. Irons e.g. set of TM R11 3-PW $899 current exchange rate is about £1 = $1.6 so that would be about £560. Not a huge difference.
What was surprising was the number of boxed up demo sets of current clubs available e.g. Titleist AP1 3-PW (712) $619.99 , yes there were some indications they had been hit in the bays but for all intents and purposes they were as new. This was where a real saving could be made.
I appreciate that it is the main golf store in this state Connecticut but the state is small and you can drive from one end to the other in a couple of hours so could a store like this exist and operate profitably in the UK or do we need a better infrastructure to make it practical? I don't know but it was certainly an eye opener as to what a golf store could be.
