Worst equipment purchase?

[fozcycle 12,447]

Traded in my Callaway Fusion irons for the New Fusion wide sole irons......Just could not hit the wider sole so I sold them to a friend for $400.  That was 5 years ago......and he still games them.

[hckymeyer 6,296]

The list of experiments that haven't worked for me is long, but distinguished

 

Top of the list on my failed experiments would the RBZ Stage 2 Tour driver, Seemore Big FGP center shafted belly putter and a random left handed putter I got from Dicks.

[Kenny B 25,038]

Nike CCI irons (non forged) - just rubbish. Sold after 2 weeks

 

RBZ 3 wood (non tour) - just no good off the deck at all.

 

Titleist 907d2 driver - bought for the name, should have tried it more. Cost me 25 yards!

 

westy,

what was wrong with the RBZ?  It has been the best off the deck for me, although I am currently looking for a replacement.

[westy 523]

Kenny, it was too tall - I looked down at it and just couldn't picture hitting it well. The stage 2 tour isn't as tall and it's so much better. The original may have been a bit longer off the tee, but that's not what I needed.....

 

It was like carrying two drivers really

[spongy5 39]

Those so called free warrior golf clubs

[Dhuck Whooker 218]

Callaway Big Bertha driver, circa 1995, 9.5 deg with a Ricoh "firm" shaft, bought it off the rack on the way to a weekend golf outing.    Thing was expensive for those days too.  

 

That shaft was horrible for me.  The ball flight was similar to how those give-away t-shirts fly when they are shot out of those air guns at hockey and basketball games. Or maybe a badminton serve.

 

Damn I was stupid.   (my wife would disagree about the use of past tense in that last sentence)

[wbealsd 1,063]

From a long list of dubious purchases, for me it was the Feel Golf 73* wedge.  Using a full swing to fly high, to a spot 10 feet away wasn't a particularly useful shot for me...

[fozcycle 12,447]

From a long list of dubious purchases, for me it was the Feel Golf 73* wedge.  Using a full swing to fly high, to a spot 10 feet away wasn't a particularly useful shot for me...

 

I wish you had a video of your 10 foot SuperLob wedge shot.....

[wbealsd 1,063]

I wish you had a video of your 10 foot SuperLob wedge shot.....

LOL, that would be funny but that club is long gone

[mr_divots 247]

I guess "disappointment" is the operative word. Got 22 & 25 Adams LS Hybrids and just did not hit them well at all. Little flat for me and when I did make contact, they liked to hook. Spent a really good chunk of change on them. Very disappointed.

 

That, and I don't think I'll ever get a set of irons blueprinted ever again. No one cares, and most assuredly its money out the window if you go to sell them.

[TheHacker 3]

For me... it's the SLDR driver. For those of you who followed, I raved a lot about the driver, and how the fitting process found me the supposedly best shaft combo for my swing.

 

Well... the honeymoon period is over. The SLDR depends on me having all cylinders firing well at the same time too much, and there's way too much hit & pray involved. Think I'll fall back on my old cleveland dst driver.

 

Think I'll probably eBay it sometime soon.

[George 0]

For me it was the original Nike driver, you remember the blue one. It was awful. How bad was it? It was so bad the Callaway C4 almost replaced it. I still cannot look at a Nike golf clubs no matter how much they get raved. 

[BK in TEXAS 190]

From a long list of dubious purchases, for me it was the Feel Golf 73* wedge.  Using a full swing to fly high, to a spot 10 feet away wasn't a particularly useful shot for me...

I never tried one of those...I was always afraid of smacking myself in the face with the ball from so much loft!!!

[Chal 18]

So I sold my Rocketbladez right before our city tournament and bought some old ping zings.  Reshafted with KBS Tour shafts.  Didn't even have a 9 iron.  I hated the Rocketbladez.  Needless to say, there has been much innovation in irons since the zings.  Lost 2 clubs distance, could never figure out how far to hit an iron.  2 round tournament, missed every par 3 green but one.  Lost by 2 shots.  Bad purchase.

[GolfSpy Barbajo 9,311]

Maybe this should go in the Confessional thread -- but I had a Sasquatch Sumo2 for about 4 months.  Cannot stress how much I hated that driver -- it was like swinging an oil can on the end of a stick. 

[wbealsd 1,063]

Maybe this should go in the Confessional thread -- but I had a Sasquatch Sumo2 for about 4 months.  Cannot stress how much I hated that driver -- it was like swinging an oil can on the end of a stick. 

My fitter and I once joked about setting up a can on broom handle to establish a baseline for testing - lol

[Kenny B 25,038]

So I sold my Rocketbladez right before our city tournament and bought some old ping zings.  Reshafted with KBS Tour shafts.  Didn't even have a 9 iron.  I hated the Rocketbladez.  Needless to say, there has been much innovation in irons since the zings.  Lost 2 clubs distance, could never figure out how far to hit an iron.  2 round tournament, missed every par 3 green but one.  Lost by 2 shots.  Bad purchase.

 

The Zings weren't the best Pings made, but there is one whole club difference in loft between the Zings and the Bladzs.  Even with the reshaft, I bet you hit them pretty high which probably accounted for another club loss in distance.  Still pretty good, playing with different equipment and only losing by 2!

[TheHacker 3]

It was like having to face my shame four business days later.  I think I actually gave up drinking for a week or two after this one and the rule going forward is my iPad and phone are taken away after 8 beers.

 

The correct response should had been... go get some more drinks to drown out the shame.

[TheHacker 3]

For me it was the original Nike driver, you remember the blue one. It was awful. How bad was it? It was so bad the Callaway C4 almost replaced it. I still cannot look at a Nike golf clubs no matter how much they get raved. 

 

I had that one! When it first came out, I bought the 400 cc version... which apparently was good enough for my hacker swing. But then I dented the clubhead at the driving range when I took a practise swing and hit a pillar on the back swing. Can't believe how fragile it was.

 

After that dent, it never feel quite the same, and I quickly trade it off for a TM driver (I think... that was so many years ago).

[sp0rtsfan86 893]

The only one was a 56 degree wedge. I don't know what it is about that degree, but still can't hit it to this day. Also bought a 54 degree wedge I hit the same distance as a 52 but needed better gaps. Ended up getting a 52 and 58 and it's really been about the best spread I can ask without gaming a 56.