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Buying Clubs - Choosing The Right Ones

We are basically fumblers. We fumble our way into the world, fumble through school, through work, through friends, through marriage and then in between all these as if the tortures were not enough, we suddenly think that we could also fumble through golf. When we could not even throw or kick a ball decently and I am talking about a fairly huge ball here, we thought we could manage one that is unnecessarily small, could easily get lost in the woods or waters and have to move so many body parts and yet can't move so many body parts hitting them with up to 14 clubs of different shapes, lengths and sizes? So instead of the "Fearsome Foursome" we were suitably reduced to the "Fumbling Foursome" At least we'll have more in numbers than the "Three Stooges". See Moe, Curly and Larry (posted by gonzolane) to reminisce. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmOCThmMmlg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcELyKkOAak Some of you may be thinking of picking up go...

Which Putter? Decoding The Mystery.

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Which Putter? Decoding The Mystery This is the most important club in your bag as you will use it 40-50% of the time in a round of golf. How it stacks up in terms of length, grip, shaft orientation, loft and lie angle are all important criteria. Correct length helps in positioning your eyes over the ball while proper lie angle allows the club to lie flat and helps in alignment. A putter that has too much or too little loft will push the ball up or cause it to bounce. Over sized grip can cause awkward feel while those that are too thin will encourage too much wrist movement. Though looks are important, it is only secondary as it only helps in confidence building. Colours and graphics are cosmetics for aesthetic reasons to entice you so that a fool and his money is soon parted. Not so for the rest which I shall emphasized below. Price and Quality Is the price of a putter related to its quality? Yes, very much so as they say, you pay peanuts you get monkeys. You can get on...