I like my local Austad’s for most equipment and apparel. I also buy my gloves there.
I do buy the following things online:
-Snell Golf Balls
-Grips from grips4less.com
-wedges from Sub70
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I do basically all of my buying online. I’d love to support a local independent shop, but the only local independent shop in my area is owned and staffed by an old guy who seems to have zero interest in anyone coming into his shop, maybe just more of a place for him and his buddies to hang out.
If I find a local fitter or join a club and make a good relationship with the pro shop it may change, but at this point I’m really comfortable buying everything online. Even with clubs, I’ll buy them based on my expectations and then am fine sending them back if they don’t work out. I definitely shop for deals as well, eBay for apparel, golfdiscount.com for balls, rockbottomgolf for random stuff.
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@Bigdadenergy, thanks for the tip. I’ve bought shoes and gloves from RockBottom but never really looked at their clothes. I’ll start paying more attention.
You can get shirts for like $7.99 sometimes. As long as you don’t care about them being “last season” - which I very much don’t. A solid color golf shit is a solid color golf shirt as long as it’s not fully cotton like the ones we all wore in the 90s.
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Local Austads for apparel & woods, Amazon for grips & apparel. @golfsub70 for wedges & Irons. Just tried glove from sub70 & excellent quality for low price.
I did my club fitting in Club Champion (worth every penny).
I tend to goto stores (PGA mainly, or club shops) if i see anything i like, ill tend to try and find it online which almost always is significantly cheaper.
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I don’t have any golf retailers anywhere near me so my purchases are online. 12 of the 14 clubs in my bag was purchased directly from OEMs, 1 was from Rock Bottom Golf and got the other off Ebay.
I used to buy local…now I test locally and only buy online. Mostly from eBay or directly from a company’s website.
I still support the local with buying sim time and buying apparel, gloves, etc., but the price difference is too large on most clubs to buy them here.
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My brand of clubs aren’t sold here in Australia so I had to buy them online from the UK. My bag, buggy, driving iron and woods off ebay. Clothing from a smaller local golf shop.
I like supporting @Sub70_Jay but haven’t pulled the trigger on the wedges… I’m not so good to think that I need different grinds, but I do want different bounces on my wedges and that’s not an option yet… I’m also still waiting to hear more on the new wedges they teased!
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I have Sub70 wedges. They are so good.
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I’m glad you like them! Maybe I just need them to bend the 56 to 54!
I have a 54! Are they out of stock in the 54?
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No, I’m just thinking about adding bounce but think I went backwards.
Mostly online. I rarely buy new equipment. When I do buy from a brick & mortar store I go to our local Golf HQ
I got fitted locally 5 years ago and haven’t bought much since, but I will get some new wedges from him for 2020. I have bought a few clubs from DSG when they had a nice sale, but nothing stock OEM really fits me well so I always rip everything apart. I used to build new clubs each year. I bought from Wishon and Golfworks mainly and they have great stuff. The recent stuff from Golfworks is amazing. I would definitely consider Sub70 (Jason is a great guy), New Level and Ben Hogan for DTC now although I would still probably rip everything apart, spine & FLO the shafts, MOI it, etc lol.
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So a question for everyone who buys online…do you forego the fitting and buy what sounds like a good fit, have a local shop modify the equipment after buying, or…?
I have a PGA store close by and I like to go there to hit balls and try clubs, but I’ve only ever purchased off the clearance or used rack. I got a Rocketballz 2 hybrid for $19.99 and an Adams Tight lies titanium 3 wood for around $100 that are both still in the bag, and my previous Tour Edge driver from the clearance/used rack. Looking now to potentially get a utility iron to replace the hybrid.
My current irons are Sub70 and I felt very good about the fit after a nice conversation w/ Jason, and my previous Mizuno irons were purchased off Ebay. I haven’t gone through a fitting, but I’m pretty aware of my specs so I can purchase online with some confidence. The only club I wouldn’t buy online w/o at least trying first is a putter.
I modify at a local shop after, but have had decent luck on eBay finding clubs that fit me despite my height (6’6”).
I usually switch out regular for midsize grips myself.
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Another newbie question - I currently game a Ping G SFT driver but am looking to upgrade to a more recent one. I have slow clubhead speed and play senior flex but have a hard time finding G400 Max (new or used), or used G410 Plus with senior shafts. How much am I losing by going to one of those models with regular shaft?