When you begin shopping for good golf equipment, you’ll find that if you know how and where to look, it can be a very rewarding adventure. I’ve stumbled upon great deals a number of times just by dropping by summer yard sales. I’ve seen entire sets for $30. Single woods were $3. Granted, they weren’t the best of the best, but I don’t need the best of the best to play (until such time that I turn pro).

I’d rather plop down a few hundred bucks into learning how to play golf from a pro than to throw down $1100 for a set of clubs I may not use consistently. Garage sales, auctions, yard sales, and thrift stores will all have sets of golf clubs for very reasonable prices. Again, they aren’t new so you do need to check out the shafts to make sure they aren’t bowed. But those neighborhood summer sales would be the first place I’d look.

Next, I would log onto the largest online auction site in the world, ebay.com. For the past ten years Ebay has enjoyed a great reputation in the online auction and e-commerce world. You can find exceptionally good deals if you know how and where to look. But you do need a little patience because the deals may not end for five or six days from the time you begin looking. Then again, it may end in eight minutes. You just never know. At this writing, there were over 2924 golf club sets for auction. There were 11,677 golf ball sites offering their golf balls for sale. Search around on Ebay and you are sure to make some really good finds.

Amazon.com is another quality and reputable site for finding golf clubs at an affordable price. Many may be upgrading their set so they want to offload their clubs and make some money in the process. You have to search for the deals, but you can still find them.

One disadvantage to these online sites is that you don’t get a ‘touch and feel’ before you buy. You don’t always know what you’re getting. Most major online sites such as Amazon or Ebay have decent return policies (with plenty of reasonable cautions before you actually press the Buy button).

Finally, online golf-specialty sites (not Ebay-, Yahoo-, or Amazon-related) are other places I would turn to in order to find great used equipment. These sites are geared towards golf and typically have ‘golf’ somewhere in the site name.

You can buy good equipment at reasonable prices but you have to be careful. Unfortunately, this is an area that you need to proceed with caution because there are a number of P.T. Barnum disciples out there (”there’s a sucker born every minute”). Be slightly skeptical about your purchases. Not everyone online is as trustworthy and honest as you. On the other hand, find the person with a ton of positive reviews and buy from him. Chances are great that your purchase will also be great. Avoid those who have very few transactions.

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