Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Clone Golf Clubs aren't ' t Knockoffs


Have you ever found yourself wondering whether or not those unbranded clone golf clubs are illegal? They aren't. And do you believe that these clubs are made of poor quality materials that will inevitably result in poor performance? This is another misconception. Clone clubs are actually very legal and are made by legitimate American-based companies.

They may look and feel very similar to clubs from name brands such as Callaway and Taylor Made. But their producers make no claim that they are producing clubs of these brands. However, the materials they use are very similar to the ones used by name brands.In fact, they perform similar to each other as well.

With this in mind, why are these clone clubs so much cheaper?

Actually, the cost of production for golf clubs is only a fraction of what golfers pay for these.This is especially true when they buy from name brands. The reason for the clubs of famous golf brands being so expensive is because they spend so much money on advertising. They pay so much money just to get professional golfers to endorse their golf clubs.

Big manufacturers also spend money on research, so that they can be the first to produce these quality clubs.In other words, they do all the hard work. Thus, the expensive cost of branded clubs can be explained. Manufacturers of clone golf clubs don't pay for advertising or research. Thus, they can afford to sell their clubs at much lower prices.

Using branded clubs does give you some kind of prestige. But doesn't always have to be a rich man's sport golf. You can buy clone clubs and still play a good golf game.So why not?








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Save Over $1200 On Your Golf Clubs!


Brandt Snedeker remarkable fired 63 in his final round at the 2007 Wyndham Championship with the help of his TaylorMade r7 driver. Now, you might be thinking that you should have what Brandt has in his golf bag. That way, you too can shoot 63!

After you do that no matter what set of golf clubs you have in your bag, you are not going to shoot 63, except maybe on the front nine, you will come to the realization that your golf clubs are a great place to save to load of cash!Especially considering that Brandt probably didn't have to pay for his clubs.

Take a look at what I have in his bag and the cost of those brand name golf clubs.The total would be to deliver $1809.00. Now, you may have that kind of money to throw around on a new set of name brand golf clubs but for those that don't, there is an alternative.

Take a look at the clone golf club alternatives.The total for them is $535.00 for essentially the same golf club. That is a savings of $1278.00. Now that kind of savings would buy a lot of rounds of golf or the other rounds at the 19th hole.

Yes, the argument can be made that the name brand golf clubs perform better. That argument holds water if you are one of the top 100 or so golfer in the world. Odds are you are not. Do so, if you can't tell the difference between the name brand golf clubs and the clone golf clubs, why not save over $1200.00 to be like Brandt Snedeker?

Another argument that does not seem to hold water is that the name brand golf clubs are built to your specifications. This is definitely a good thing, but clone golf clubs can be just as easily built to your specifications for less. Any golf club can be built to your specification, no matter the name on the golf club. You should definitely have your golf clubs built to your specifications. Why not save the money and get more golf balls?

But what about the guarantee that comes with that name brand set of golf clubs?Well, guess what.Clone golf clubs can be obtained with a 30-day guarantee play.If you don't like the clubs after playing them for 30-days, return them.How many name brand golf clubs will let you do that?You can't lose!

Check out the prices for the name brand golf clubs in Brandt Snedeker's golf bag and the clone equivalent.

DriverTaylorMade r7 425 9.5 °-$250.00

Power Max KC2 425 TI with UST ProForce 65 shaft: Clone equivalent-$120.50

3 WoodBridgestone 5 Tour 14 ° Premium-$150.00

Power Max KC2 Fairway: Clone equivalent-$49.00

HybridTaylorMade Rescue mid 19 °-$220.00

Power Max KC2 3 Hybrid: Clone equivalent-$39.00

Irons (3-PW) TaylorMade r7 TP-$800.00

Power Max KC2 with True Temper Dynamic Gold with Sensicore shaft: Clone equivalent-$233.00

Wedge (SW) Cleveland TA 588 54 °-$110.00

SGS Black: Clone equivalent-$29.50

Wedge (LW) Cleveland TA 588 58 °-$110.00

SGS Black: Clone equivalent-$29.50

PutterOdyssey White Hot XG Rossie-$169.00

Ecliptic Three Ball: Clone equivalent-$34.50

Name brand total: $1809.00 clone equivalent $535.00 to savings of $1274.00.








Kevin is the husband of Becky and the father of 2, Nicholas and Kirsten.He is an avid sports fan and over-all good guy.I've taken his love of sports and developed web sites that offer that love of sports to others.

http://www.GolfClubsHome.com

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Golf Clubs - Almost!


A good set of golf clubs is the weapon of choice for the advanced golfer. To complete set of clubs consists of at least one driver, fairway woods (which are now metal woods), irons and putter. Some clubs in recent years have been replaced with hybrid golf clubs to replace longer fairway metal woods and irons.

There is an entity known as the USGA or the United States Golf Association. This group determines the rules of golf, including the number of golf clubs that can be used in a round of golf. This limit is fourteen golf clubs. Normally, the standard would have one driver, putter, three wedges, irons, and two fairway woods in their golf bag seven one golfer. The combination of golf clubs is as varied as there are golfers.Hybrid golf clubs have begun replacing some of the longer golf irons and fairway woods in the golf bag.

The driver is the club that is most golfers favorite golf club, even though it is usually not used on every hole. The driver golf club is the longest golf club with the biggest head at the end of the shaft. This allows the golfer to hit the golf ball with the greatest distance, but not always the most accuracy. Rules regulate the size of the club head. The golf club driver will be the most expensive single golf club in the bag golfers.Name brand golf club drivers will cost between $200 and $400. Discount golf club drivers can be purchased for around $100 or even less.

The fairway woods have club heads that are slightly more lofted than the driver, and are used for long shots when the ball is lying on the ground.The club heads used to be made of wood, but now are mostly metal. Fairway woods normally retail from $150 to $300. You can make major savings with clone golf woods that run at quite a discount over name brand golf woods.

Hybrid golf clubs have made a big entry into the world of golf clubs.They are very various golf clubs that are used in place of long irons and fairway woods. Hybrid golf clubs combine the best features of the fairway wood and long irons. Wit this versatility, they can be used almost anywhere on the golf course. Prices for hybrid golf clubs run similar to drivers, but discount hybrid golf clubs are available along with clone and knockoff hybrid golf clubs.

Golf irons are the essence of a set of golf clubs.Two thirds of the shots in a normal round of golf will use an iron. Irons are used to hit the golf ball off the ground from distances of 125 yards to 225 yards. Each is assigned a number based upon the loft of the club head angle iron. The 9-iron you have the most loft to shorter shaft, and is used to short, high shots hit. A 2-iron you have very little loft, a longer shaft, and is used to hit low, long shots.

Golf club wedges can be part of the golf club iron set purchase. Normal golf club include a pitching wedge, sand wedge and different lofts the wedges of lob wedges. These golf club wedges are used for shots that are within 100 yards or closer to the green. These shots are sometimes referred to as the money shot because they should get you very close to the pin.The number of wedges carried by the golfer is dependent upon their particular golf game and their strengths and weaknesses.

The golfer has the choice of two primary types of golf club irons.For the more experienced golfer, forged irons are mad for precision and enable easier shaping of shots for draws and fades. Cavity-backed irons have a larger sweet spot and golf are more forgiving on off-center providing straighter shots, shots. A set of golf irons consisting of 2 through 9, a sand wedge and a pitching wedge, would range in price from $250 to over $1,500. Discount golf irons can provide great savings and are sometimes referred to as knockoff golf irons or clone golf irons.

The final and perhaps most important golf club, is the putter. The putter is also known as the "money club" because it is the club used to tap the ball into the hole. The purpose of the putter is to roll the ball, so there is no loft on the club head.

Being the most important golf club, the putter has gone through quite a change in recent years.The size and shape of the putter head comes in many different varieties.The shaft length also can be very short or very long and anywhere in between.Conventional putters, belly putters, mallet putters - the choices seem endless.Golf club putters also have wide range of prices, ranging from around $20 to around $300.








Kevin is the husband of Becky and the father of 2, Nicholas and Kirsten.He is an avid sports fan and over-all good guy.I've taken his love of sports and developed web sites that offer that love of sports to others.

http://www.GolfClubsHome.com

http://collectiblesport.com/golfmemorabilia


A Revolution in Golf Clubs


The golf club of today, is not your Daddy's golf club! In days past, you had your choice of 5-6 major brand names, you did not have a lot of choice about how your clubs were made, how they were fitted, what materials were used, etc.

Wow you've changed that!Today the number of major manufacturers making club has exploded, you can buy custom made clubs, you can buy brand name mass produced clubs fitted exactly to your swing, you can buy clones or knockoffs of those mass produced brands, you can buy build it yourself components that will match the specifications and quality of any thing offered by the major manufacturers.

One of the biggest changes has been in "woods", first they are almost all made of metal or composite material today, why they are still called "woods" is anybody's guess.Just 20 years ago traditional wood drivers of about 200CC's volume were still in most golf bags, today's high performance driver pushes 460CC's volume, is made of titanium or a blend of titanium and some exotic composite materials in a graphite shaft, adjustable or changeable weight plugs that are purported to influence ball flight patterns and cost upwards of $700.00 for a major brand name.And of course being the ego maniacs that we golfers are have to have the best, most high tech driver in the bag.
Fairway woods (also metal) have not grown as much in size, however there are different heights, weight plug options, and shaft grip choices and many face.

Irons are now oversized, mid-sized, backed cavity cast, forged, milled, offset, sling backed, and this is just part of the verbiage. The array of shafts available is staggering, the range of prices for shafts is amazing.A major brand name full set of irons priced at $1,100 or more is not unusual.

Let's not overlook putters, the traditional blade putter could be hard to find. Check the names of these putters, SRT 2-Ball Putter, Tri-Ball SRT Putter, Studio Style Putter, 2 Bar Putter, some of the styles available look as if they came from another planet. The site I found these putters listed on 138 brand name putters, ranging in price from $19.99 to $299.00, the vast majority of them were around $130.00.

Send in the clones... along with the explosion of major brand name manufacturers, there has also been an explosion of companies who either manufacture or import "clone" of "knockoff" clubs that have the same or very similar specifications and features of some of the more familiar brand names, some of them even copy the cosmetic features.Many of these clones or knockoff clubs have been challenged in court for patent infringement, some have lost and some have not.
What is the value of these companies? Glad you asked... most of them sell their products at a fraction of the cost of the major brand name products, even if your ego will not let you carry to clone club in your bag, you can still buy one of these clubs that have similar specs and features to the brand name you are considering this is a relatively inexpensive way to check out what you think may work. Another way to perform the same experiment is to have a custom club maker build you a club that mimics the brand name you are after, or of course you can buy the components and tools and build-it-yourself.

When you are finished with your evaluation you can take out a second on the house, sell the clone or custom club to one of your partners and buy that coveted major name brand golf club.Then go out and take some lessons, because no matter what the advertising or the salesperson promised, that new club will not, by itself, make it like Tiger hit you!

So where are you going to buy your new clubs?As little as 20 years ago the only place to find the major brand names and the expertise to properly fit Club to your swing was a golf course pro shop. Your choices Today are almost endless. There are any number of "big Box" golf superstores, with complete on hand inventory of anything you could want, many of which also have websites. There are major web only retailers, mort have some type of chart that will get you close to the ideal club fitting.The Internet has also made it for a small custom east club maker to put his wares on the web, and this is where in many cases you will find the most expertise, just do a search for "custom golf clubmakers".Then there are the clone and knockoff companies, and some of these products are fantastic values, search for "clone golf clubs".

Wherever and whatever you buy...Enjoy your new clubs.And then when you are on the first tee or the driving range and the guy next to you ahead of you is hitting or 300 yard drives with an old headed wood club, you can wonder why.








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The Clone Golf Club vs Brand Name Dilemma

clone golf club setSo for some maybe the question to use to clone golf club or a brand name isn't the big of a decision. For some money is no object so buying the latest Taylor or Callaway club at a premium doesn't matter, but for the rest of us value golfers (myself included) we're on the lookout for a deal.

Sure you can scour ebay looking for a used factory second version of that you really want, but wouldn't it be a whole lot easier if you could find a brand new club, club or with similar features for a fraction of the costYou can, and that's what we're gonna chat about today.

The Internet has really lent its hand to promoting the custom golf club industry.Clone just then ain't a big thing when the industry was primarily run by mom and pop shops specialized golf clubs. Today there are big players in the clone and custom club fitting, hundreds of shaft and online offering industry club head options, all delivered right to your door.

At first glance buying a custom fit club from a company like PineMeadowGolf.com really doesn't have any draw backs. You get a similar built club to some of the top names in the industry. The length and shaft are custom fit to your specifics, and all this comes at a fraction the cost of what a brand name club would cost

Are you sacrificing quality? As someone who is using personally to clone golf driver and set of irons I really don't think so. I drive the ball (when it goes straight) every bit as far as my buddies using their $500 drivers, and I've still got a few bucks left to have a beer after the round!

The brand names are the ones who do all the research and development. They're the ones who break the new technology, and are pushing the envelope. Custom and clone club manufacturers are to an extent copying what the brand names did in the previous season or two.So if you like to be on the cutting edge of golf club technology you're going to be buying brand name clubs.

Also now that the big chain stores are catching on to the custom fit concept their hiring more specialized staff and providing better quality training so that you can walk into any store in America and be custom fit for a set of irons, hybrids, or woods.

There will always be those that need to have the brand name clubs in their bag, and there's nothing wrong with that.For me, I'll buy clone and custom clubs for the rest of my golfing days but that's just my preference.I'm not a scratch golfer, and I believe I'm getting all the performance out of my custom ACE I would from club to club twice the cost

What it comes down to is you have to play with what you're comfortable with.If you like the feel of the brand name club then you should buy it, BUT don't buy it just because the brand name is stamped all over it.


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Discount Golf Club Clones

Clone golf club setThere's nothing quite like getting out on the golf course and hitting ball around on a pretty afternoon. Unfortunately, getting the equipment that you really want can be a little bit expensive. As a golfer, you no doubt have your eye on some pretty fancy clubs that are out there. Many of us would like to have the best clubs that are available in our bag. Unfortunately, spending the money that is necessary to get a set may not always fit within our budget. If you really want a nice set of clubs without spending all of your money for a brand name, there are plenty of discount golf club clones that are available which will do nicely.

You would probably be surprised with exactly how many clones there are out on the golf course at any given time. Some people may be able to spend the money necessary to get the actual brand name but most of us are more interested in playing a good game of golf than we are in having a name in our bag. Even among these discount golf club clones, however, there are some differences that you should be aware of.Knowing these differences can help you to make an informed decision whenever it becomes time to purchase.

Some of these golf clubs may have the exact look and feel of the actual manufacturer but they do so illegally. For example, if you purchase Club that was not made by the actual brand yet it has the brand name stamped into it, that is a clear trademark violation. You don't need to do something illegal in order to enjoy a great set of golf clubs.There are plenty of discount golf club clones out there that only use the same components as the current manufacturer but do not try to make you think that they were the actual brand. These are the ones that I personally recommend because you can usually get a great game of golf that feels like a million bucks without actually spending it.

If you're looking for this type of discount golf club clones, there are plenty of choices which will offer you a quality set (our favorite is).The only thing that you are missing is the advertising that drives the major brands.Some of these clones are legitimate manufacturers and they may actually have a brand all to themselves.By having a set of these clubs in your bag, not only will you be saving money but you will be enjoying a great round of golf in the process.

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Custom Clone Golf Clubs

One thing that is certain about the game of golf and those that play it, there is a never-ending need to have the right equipment. Whenever we first start out playing, we may have scraped together to bag full of clubs from a variety of different sources. As a matter of fact, many individuals that play golf typically have a dozen or so clubs laying around that they no longer find useful. Whenever we are first starting out, these are like gold to us and we can play a fairly decent game by using them. Eventually, however, we may find that our game is growing stale so we start to look for a set of clubs that is specifically engineered for our size and style of play. Although these can get remove expensive, it is possible to get some custom clone golf clubs that will serve the purpose just fine.

Although many people would never have these clone golf clubs in their bag, I personally do not see a thing wrong with them as long as they're made in the proper way. For example, a golf club manufacturer can easily put together to clone golf club which has most if not all of the same components as one of the name brand products. Since most golf club manufacturers do not actually manufacture their own components, you can order from the same sources and end up with a very similar golf club. This is perfectly legal and it happens all of the time. There is a line, however, which some custom clone golf clubs clones cross between legal and illegal ones. The real difference is using the brand name on the product that is trademarked by another company.There is nothing wrong with having similar club but you cannot claim to be the same product.

These custom clone golf clubs can certainly give you exactly what you need to play a great round of golf. Although they may not have the brand name stamped into it, nobody needs to know that. All they need to know is the fact that you have a nice custom set of clubs and that it has helped your game tremendously.As a matter of fact, the only thing that you're really missing whenever you are using these clones is the high price that pays for all of the advertising that the name brand manufacturers pay for.All that advertising won't shave to single point off of your score.


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