Category: Club Making
Making your own clubs is both a good way to save money and to have fun. Despite the naysayers out there, there are a wide variety of top quality golf components out there, including products from GolfSmith, Snake Eyes, Ralph Maltby's Golfworks, and Tom Wishon golf. With care and forethought, golf hobbyists can produce clubs that are easily the match of the big boys at a fourth of the cost. This section is dedicated to posts on clubmaking, fitting and repair.
Winn Collegiate Grips
Its College Football Saturday again
If you like the feel of Winn Grips (I don’t personally like them, but I know a bunch of golfers who do), you might want to look into the collegiate grips. They’re in your favorite college colors, with a logo emblazoned on the surface. The following teams are available: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana State, Miami, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Penn State, Tennessee, Texas.
Waggleweight?
I’ve been a clubmaker for a long time, so I know all about swing weight, component weight, and the interaction of all the parts.
But waggleweight?
That’s a new one on me.
The folks at Waggleweight claim that its a new form of balancing the club that takes swingweighting and translates it to how it feels to a human being.
I don’t know about this, but I’m not going to spend $25 to find out.
You can read the full press release below:
Grip Kits
If you’re like most golfers, you’re still playing with the same set of grips that youhad on your sticks last fall.
Not the Golf Blogger. I change grips like Liz Taylor changes husbands. Sometimes, if I’m not playing well, I’ll change the grips. The new look gives me a new attitude. And its a heckuva lot cheaper than throwing the clubs in a pond and buying new ones. (Mrs. GolfBlogger has the same attitude about earrings. When things aren’t going well at work, or the boys are driving her crazy, she buys herself a pair).
If you haven’t changed grips in a while, you should. And don’t bother to take them to the proshop. You can do it yourself. I’ve got some instructions here.
Golfsmith offers grip kits that contain everything you need to do the job: grips, tape, solvent and a small rubber clamp for your workbench vice.
Golfworks Site Upgrade
Ralph Maltby’s Golfworks has recently completed a much-needed upgrade to their website. The old one was really clunky.
If youi haven’t tried them yet, Golfworks offers some very good club components. Maltby is sort of a mad scientist, so the heads feature all kinds of game improvement ideas.
Elta Golf Web Portal
Elta Golf is a golf community website. There’s a forum and news links. Most interesting to me, though is the promised tutorials on clubmaking. As a semi-pro clubmaker (I make money, but not a living), I am a real advocate of custom clubmaking.
