Originally Posted by
Pcomm1.v2
"When I used to golf, I'd carry 3 Ping Zings, a 2 iron, 8 and putter. That's the minimum number a course will let on with. I can't count how many people told me that it was absurd. I'd just say I'm here to relax and you should too. Inevitably some guy with a $6000 set of 'tuned' carbon shafts would lambast me on the first tee. By the 9th he'd be seething since he was a few strokes behind the idiot with 3 clubs. By the 18th he'd be on the verge of tears."
...and that would be Tiger Woods you were playing?
If you mean because of the cost of the clubs, that's not that extreme, golf is a stupidly expensive sport. A Ping Zing iron was $85 new.
Multiply that by the entire set plus woods and it adds up quick. Then of course the dope is talked into 'upgrades' like carbon shafts for more flexibility. Then again, he's told that he'd get better performance out of them if they were custom sized...
Which is my point, like any hobby, you can dump as much money into it as you want, but it doesn't necessarily mean the end result would be better.