| A set of professional golf clubs is broken into various | | | | equipment every season and some change it every |
| segments. There are the golf woods, golf irons, golf | | | | month but there is no doubt that golfers and their pro |
| wedge, and the golf putter. For the wayward golfer | | | | golf equipment have a strange relationship. |
| the pro golf equipment could also consist of the | | | | The first thing a golfer looks for in their professional |
| professional golf ball water retrieval device which | | | | golf equipment is the feel. When they pick the club up it |
| fishes the ball out of the water hazard. But golf gear | | | | needs to feel comfortable in their hands or they would |
| takes a while to become accepted by a pro golfer | | | | not use it. Comfortable means that not only does the |
| and there is a ritual that many pro golfers go through | | | | grip feel comfortable but the clubs are the proper |
| before they will even try new professional golf | | | | length and that they have the right weight to them. |
| equipment. | | | | Golf is such a game of feel that if the clubs do not |
| Probably the most sensitive of all professional golf | | | | feel right then everything is going to be off. |
| equipment is the putter. A professional golfer will go so | | | | Right Down to the Golf Balls |
| far as to blame their putter for their bad play in | | | | Almost every professional golfer has a long list of |
| tournaments and buy a new putter at the pro shop | | | | superstitions and rituals that they attach to their |
| prior to a round in the tournament and just start using | | | | professional golf gear and no piece of equipment has |
| that brand new putter in tournament play. While this | | | | more ritual than the golf ball. For most golfers if the golf |
| goes against the notion of breaking golf gear in, it | | | | ball is not their preferred brand, in their preferred color, |
| shows how important feel and confidence is to the | | | | and their preferred model of their preferred brand then |
| golfer when it comes to their equipment. | | | | they would not even look at them. Some will even go |
| Even though many professional golfers get their golf | | | | as far as to insist that the numbers on the golf balls all |
| equipment for free they will still refuse professional golf | | | | be the same or they would not use them. There is a |
| equipment if they cannot get it to feel right or if it does | | | | lot of truth to the statement that a lot of the game of |
| not help their golf game. Some golfers change | | | | golf is mental and some of that mental is very strange. |