Golf Clubs

[Junior Senior]

Go to www.golfbidder.com and have a look at some decent 2nd-hand sets of Pings.

Eye 2's are my preference but you may prefer something more modern, I believe that Eye 5's are very much a-la-mode.

what he said.  Had my Ping Eye 2's for 15 years and they've served me well :-)

[mondatoo]

Golf can be immense,esp 19th hole 

Haven't played for a while but guna start again soon

[TheChipPrince]

GET LESSONS

i taught myself over 5 years and got to 13 but just couldn't get any better. Went and had lessons and swing totally changed, grip, stance, everything, 6 months of awful play until it started to get better. It clicked fully about 2 months ago and i am knocking shots off all the time, last round i played i went round in 6 over on a course where my best ever before was 15 over.

I still play with 5 year old callaways but i'm investing in some mizuno's now i feel it's worth it and i always recommend callaways for woods, they just go further for some reason.

GET LESSONS

ACE, can I ask how much you paid for lessons, and what could be expected to pay at the mo?  Cheers...

[ACE2M]

GET LESSONS

i taught myself over 5 years and got to 13 but just couldn't get any better. Went and had lessons and swing totally changed, grip, stance, everything, 6 months of awful play until it started to get better. It clicked fully about 2 months ago and i am knocking shots off all the time, last round i played i went round in 6 over on a course where my best ever before was 15 over.

I still play with 5 year old callaways but i'm investing in some mizuno's now i feel it's worth it and i always recommend callaways for woods, they just go further for some reason.

GET LESSONS

ACE, can I ask how much you paid for lessons, and what could be expected to pay at the mo?  Cheers...

£20 a lesson (40 mins a lesson) but i got a deal at christmas of 7 for £100.

[moonandback]

Everyone saying get lessons is right upto a point, are you going to practise regularly? ive seen people turn up for lessons once a fortnight or once a week when i worked in a pro shop but they never got any better because they never practised in between the lessons. and practice chipping and putting more then anything else i remember a scratch golfer telling me that if you are confident of getting the ball up and down from within 20 yards of the green you dont have to hit the ball that well. i played with a guy off +2 once and he hit all over the place but my god could he ever putt.

so lessons yes but short game practice, short game practice ,short game practice  more so imo.

oh and dont buy cheap clubs from JJB they will be weighted horribly and have awful shafts in them get good clubs from a quality manufacturer taylor made cleveland mizuno titelist etc.

good luck.

[titaniumbean]

Everyone saying get lessons is right upto a point, are you going to practise regularly? ive seen people turn up for lessons once a fortnight or once a week when i worked in a pro shop but they never got any better because they never practised in between the lessons. and practice chipping and putting more then anything else i remember a scratch golfer telling me that if you are confident of getting the ball up and down from within 20 yards of the green you dont have to hit the ball that well. i played with a guy off +2 once and he hit all over the place but my god could he ever putt.

so lessons yes but short game practice, short game practice ,short game practice  more so imo.

oh and dont buy cheap clubs from JJB they will be weighted horribly and have awful shafts in them get good clubs from a quality manufacturer taylor made cleveland mizuno titelist etc.

good luck.

THIS!!

Practice chipping and the rest of your game will fall into place around it.

If you dont need to hit the green to be comfortable scoring well then the approach shots become easier. I'd rather be just off the green with some space to work with than be on the green just and have a long putt.

Had some Mizuno T-Zoid oversize for quite a few years now, absolutely brilliant love them to bits

[david3103]

I was told once that being a single-figure handicap golfer was easy... Miss every green and get up and down on half of them...

Played the guy in a matchplay, outdrove him on the first hole, at which point he asked if my 20 h'cap had been checked. Continued to be in better shape off the tee on pretty much every hole and lost 6&4 ( I have no shortgame skills)

[moonandback]

I think 1 over off 4 greens is my best bad round
this was when i could actually play the game properly mind you.