Some of the biggest names in the game are deciding to skip being tied down in an equipment contract in favour of the freedom of being able to pick which equipment to use. But with so much choice how does a free agent decide what clubs to play? Sergio Garcia recently shocked the golf world when he was spotted using Ping clubs in Abu Dhabi before announcing his split from Callaway after two years together. For the Spaniard, there are a number of factors.
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“For me, obviously feel is important but it’s got to start looking good,” he explains. “If it doesn’t look good, I’m not going to be able to play it, even if it’s the best club in the world.
“Then, when I test it, it has to feel good and I have to see some good numbers with it. It’s as simple as that.”
You would think with so much equipment out there it would be hard to know where to start. Garcia, , disagrees.
“I had an idea of what I wanted to try,” he says. “I tried TaylorMade and Ping and I thought some of the other manufacturers, from what I’ve seen out there, didn’t quite suit my eye.
“I had an idea of trying those, and I did and I got a little mixed bag of those two, actually.”
Now I don’t know about you, but if I had equipment brands sending me clubs left, right and centre, I would spend a lot of time checking out my options and switching clubs in and out of the bag. So will Garcia be the same?