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Will golfers ever be satisfied with their equipment?

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Mrs D4S is happy with my equipment so that's the main thing :whistle:
 
Surely a new club cant make anyone a better player, it can only help mask more of the faults that the player has in their shot execution

i.e <<marketing speak on>> these blah blah clubs offer a tighter dispersion! <<marketing speak off>>

No they don't, it may however have features that help to hide or lessen the effect of the off center/outside sweet spot strikes from a player

A hundred pure shots with any club will have very little dispersion

So they might be able to lower your score but you wont be a better player
 
I'm satisfied with my equipment until I use it and it goes wrong. Then I start thinking what if?

I've had the same irons for 7 years now and I still love them. 3 wood is 10 years old but I am cobbling together a new one from old parts to see how that goes. I haven't bought a putter for 8 years either. I have recently updated the driver though but that won't change for a while now.
 
Slab said:
Surely a new club cant make anyone a better player, it can only help mask more of the faults that the player has in their shot execution

i.e <<marketing speak on>> these blah blah clubs offer a tighter dispersion! <<marketing speak off>>

No they don't, it may however have features that help to hide or lessen the effect of the off center/outside sweet spot strikes from a player

A hundred pure shots with any club will have very little dispersion

So they might be able to lower your score but you wont be a better player
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I see your point exactly, new clubs can't make you a better player. Problem is not everyone has the time to play and practice all the time, so they are looking for something that can make the game easier and drop their scores.

Any equipment that helps an inconsistent swing hit the ball better is always going to be in demand. Manufacturers can't make the ball go any further with a sweet strike, due to the manufacturing restrictions imposed by the governing bodies. So what they are doing now is trying to sell products by making it more consistent on off centre strikes.

there always has been and always will be one thing they can't change. If you swing in to out with an open face it will still slice, just now it will go further when you do it.......:rofl:
 
New shinies cover up the inadequacies of your golf. Get a lesson to solve your poor ball striking or buy a new club that will magically make the ball go true and straight. Shiny please. Some purchases are genuine upgrades but I suspect 70% are to cover a fault. On that basis I would state that golfers are unlikely to ever be truly happy with what is in their bag, or if they are then it will not be for long.

How many other sports have as many dedicated shops/outlets as golf? Quite an amazing set up with golfers happy to spend money on a regular basis. How other sports must envy the desire of golfers and wish they could persuade the people who play their sport to part with money at the same rate.
 
New gear keeps the interest up. I know my gear so I won't buy new gear just for the sake of it. It has to show to me that it could be an improvement over what I have currently. And when I say 'improvement', i think of it in terms of feel, looks, performance, rather than it saves me shots...as only the bloke swinging the club can do that :D
 
As golf is a game which is impossible to master, you can always go lower, and therefore we are all always looking to improve one way or another.

As we improve it may be that different equipment will help us more (stiffer shafts, altered ball flights etc).
As technology improves there will be more & better equipment to assist us to improve (longer, straighter more consistent).

As such we will always want newer & better.
 
I find the amount of changes that some people make to their equipment completely bizarre. I am generalising here but in my experience it tends to be people looking for something to blame for either not being very good or having a poor run of form and a fair amount of it is physchological.

My take on it is to find something that suits you and persevere with it. If something in your game goes wrong I'd hazard a guess that it's the operator, not the equipment that the issue lies with.
 
Could it be that some are looking for clubs that better fit "there game" rather than just expecting better results from so called better/newer technology?
 
Or could it be that people just like buying new stuff? I've always liked new stuff, be it technology, or football boots, or cricket bats, or now golf clubs. That will never change, and I'll always have my eye on the new stuff that comes out.
 
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