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The Benefits Of Quality Clone Golf Clubs
To begin with, the major manufacturers of clone golf clubs are fully fledged golf companies. Their own research and development departments turn out club designs that are manufactured with the exact same materials the big OEM's use. These golf clubs include the same design principles such as club volume, increased moment of inertia and cavity backed irons, to name just a few.
Club design is governed by the rules of golf. Club heads have to conform to these rules, otherwise they are deemed non-conforming and cannot be used in competition play. That's not limited to the pro tours either. Playing a non-conforming driver in your next club match may well see you being disqualified.
The major producers of golf clones will submit their clubs to the game's governing bodies for approval (USPGA in the USA, R&A in Europe) in the same fashion as the main OEM's. This is an expensive undertaking and nobody producing cheapo copies would go to the expense and effort of submitting their clubs, only to see them turned down.
Take a driver for example. For a driver to be conforming, it has to have a volume of 460 cc maximum. It's not sufficient for a producer to say their drivers are smaller than 460 cc. The USPGA and the R&A have to say they aren't. If they are under the limit, they go on the Conforming Driver lists. If they are bigger then the allowed maximum, they go on the Non-Conforming Driver lists.
Quick point to note here. Some manufacturers of cheap knock-offs trumpet their drivers as being conforming and point to the fact that these clubs are nowhere to be found on the non-conforming lists. That simply means they haven't submitted their clubs for testing. If a club conforms, it's on the conforming list. If a club isn't on the non-conforming list, it isn't necessarily conforming.
Creating conforming clubs takes a lot of attention and a lot of manufacturing skill. Get the build process wrong by a fraction of a percent and the clubs could well end up being non-conforming. Size isn't the only limit the rules make. With restrictions on club-face spring back for example (COR or Coefficient of Restitution) being affected by even a tiny variant in the thickness of the face, quality control is vital.
Clones from the main producers built according to the rules of the game and will make a much smaller dent in your wallet. Using the same quality materials as the big golf companies and with the same (or better) golf shafts, these are high quality golf clubs that will make golf that much more fulfilling. As an added bonus, many of the top line manufacturers offer custom build options on their clubs.
What you end up playing is a set of top quality, conforming, custom assembled golf clubs that will play ever bit as good, if not better, than a set of expensive off-the-rack OEM's. What you won't get is the price tag.
Never a bad thing for a set of custom golf clubs.
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