A set of pro golf clubs is broken into various segments.  There is the pro golf woods, pro golf irons, pro golf wedge, and the pro golf putter.  For the wayward golfer the pro golf equipment could also consist of the pro golf ball water retrieval device which fishes the ball out of the water hazard.  But pro golf equipment takes a while to become accepted by a pro golfer and there is a ritual that many pro golfers go through before they will even try new pro golf equipment.

Probably the most sensitive of all pro golf equipment is the putter.  A pro golfer will go so far as to blame their putter for their bad play in tournaments and buy a new putter at the pro shop prior to a round in the tournament and just start using that brand new putter in tournament play.  While this goes against the notion of breaking pro golf equipment in, it shows how important feel and confidence is to the pro golfer when it comes to their equipment.

Even though many pro golfers get their pro golf equipment for free they will still refuse pro golf equipment if they cannot get it to feel right or if it does not help their golf game.  Some golfers change equipment every season and some change it every month but there is no doubt that golfers and their pro golf equipment have a strange relationship.

The first thing a golfer looks for in their pro golf equipment is that feel.  When they pick the club up it needs to feel comfortable in their hands or they won’t use it.  Comfortable means that not only does the grip feel comfortable but the clubs are the proper length and that they have the right weight to them.  Golf is such a game of feel that if the clubs do not feel right then everything is going to be off.

Right Down To The Golf Balls

Almost every pro golfer has a long list of superstitions and rituals that they attach to their pro golf equipment and no piece of equipment has more ritual than the golf ball.  For most golfers if the golf ball is not their preferred brand, in their preferred color, and their preferred model of their preferred brand then they won’t even look at them.  Some will even go as far as to insist that the numbers on the golf balls all be the same or they won’t use them.  There is a lot of truth to the statement that a lot of the game of golf is mental and some of that mental is very strange.