You have turned pro and must decide...

Which company do you go on staff with? Your options are stay with Titleist, or venture to Callaway or Taylormade. Which company and why?

Well because I know I'll MC every event whichever one pays the most.

No money involved. Just equipment

Titleist is golf. :)

Taylormade cause I really enjoy the huge turnover in product.taunt.

Seriously probably callaway if I had to choose between the 2.i like the apex line and fairway woods.i would probably use my ping driver no matter which companies equip I chose

If I turned pro, I'd be really serious about my game. Because I'd be so serious, I'd have to go Titleist, because they're for serious players.

If I turned pro, I'd be really serious about my game. Because I'd be so serious, I'd have to go Titleist, because they're for serious players.

I'm with titleist now and love them. I'm just torn because it's no secret that TM has better woods. Titleist woods are good, I just think they could do better. But Titleist is great with pretty much everything else. And I've never owned Callaway clubs but every time I've taken swings with them they've felt solid. I'm not all that interested in them but it's on the table regardless

Macgregor for sure!

Ohhh this is an actual question not a hypothetical, shame I hate living in the real world, but if we must I'd stick with titleist.

No money? What is up with that?

Part of me would want to help out Cobra with some free advertising, but I'd probably go with Callaway.

Ohhh this is an actual question not a hypothetical, shame I hate living in the real world, but if we must I'd stick with titleist.

Haha just figured I would see what companies people like. I've been with titleist since the beginning so I don't know what it's like for others with different club manufacturers. In the end I'll end up picking what I thinks best for me obviously. It's really hard to find a better brand than titleist...if they would just let me use taylormade woods...

How are you on tour and no one is paying you to play their clubs? I call phony on the no money. And BTW, I'd play whomever payed me the most. Only on WRX do people think it matters. They're just golf clubs. A guy with a tour quality move can play with anything. It's like flavors of ice cream. Some guys just like chocolate. If somebody pays him big bucks to eat vanilla, you think he eats vanilla?

Didn't realize you actually face this dilemma... no money involved, play TM woods and Tilteist irons.

Order the latest and greatest Titleist woods in normal Stiff shaft and flip 'em and buy the TaylorMades.

Which Titleist irons do you play? If you play AP-2's I'd probably stick with Titleist, but everything else probably has a pretty reasonable TMag equivalent.

Titleist partly because I don't think I could see myself using a ball other than my ProV1x and because the new SM6 are amazing, The 915 woods are better than taylormade in my opinion and I love my Scotty Cameron. All that being said I'm sure I could get use to some 716 MBs if I had to to get all the other benefits. With me being a 17 year old Amateur the thought of Scotty Cameron hand making me a scotty is a contract signer in itself. who knows only time will tell, being a professional golfer is a job and making money is a very important thing.

If no endorsement money is at stake then why risk the unknown?

Unless you see improvements to your game - don't change. Play what got you to your existing level - try others but don't switch unless it is an improvement

How are you on tour and no one is paying you to play their clubs? I call phony on the no money. And BTW, I'd play whomever payed me the most. Only on WRX do people think it matters. They're just golf clubs. A guy with a tour quality move can play with anything. It's like flavors of ice cream. Some guys just like chocolate. If somebody pays him big bucks to eat vanilla, you think he eats vanilla?

I don't think you know much about being on staff with a company. There are different levels. Guys with status on major tours get some comp for using a certain brand. Everyone else gets free stuff and that's it. Or if they really feel bad for you they'll just charge like 40% off wholesale or something.

Didn't realize you actually face this dilemma... no money involved, play TM woods and Tilteist irons.

 

Order the latest and greatest Titleist woods and flip 'em and buy the TaylorMades.

Titleist partly because I don't think I could see myself using a ball other than my ProV1x and because the new SM6 are amazing, The 915 woods are better than taylormade in my opinion and I love my Scotty Cameron. All that being said I'm sure I could get use to some 716 MBs if I had to to get all the other benefits. With me being a 17 year old Amateur the thought of Scotty Cameron hand making me a scotty is a contract signer in itself. who knows only time will tell.

I agree, my prov1 has never let me down and vokeys are great. The part about which woods are better though, I'm looking at numbers and numbers only. In that case, TM is better. They fly further, have more ball speed, and less spin than Titleist

Turned "teaching" pro. A ha, very different. I have a bunch of friends that are assistant pros. They seem to switch around a lot to get a variety of stuff. Whatever floats your boat. Titleist is probably the best gig for a teaching pro. I don't think TaylorMade's woods are that much better. Maybe you need to tweak the shafts in your Titleists.

Titleist partly because I don't think I could see myself using a ball other than my ProV1x and because the new SM6 are amazing, The 915 woods are better than taylormade in my opinion and I love my Scotty Cameron. All that being said I'm sure I could get use to some 716 MBs if I had to to get all the other benefits. With me being a 17 year old Amateur the thought of Scotty Cameron hand making me a scotty is a contract signer in itself. who knows only time will tell.

I agree, my prov1 has never let me down and vokeys are great. The part about which woods are better though, I'm looking at numbers and numbers only. In that case, TM is better. They fly further, have more ball speed, and less spin than Titleist

personally my 915 flys way farther than my R1. My 915 carrys around 280 and rolls out to 320. My R1 took a perfect poke and great conditions to get those numbers. That is just a personal preference and everyones swing and numbers are different. Both clubs however I love.

I'm not talking about teaching pro. Touring pro that does not have status yet

Titleist partly because I don't think I could see myself using a ball other than my ProV1x and because the new SM6 are amazing, The 915 woods are better than taylormade in my opinion and I love my Scotty Cameron. All that being said I'm sure I could get use to some 716 MBs if I had to to get all the other benefits. With me being a 17 year old Amateur the thought of Scotty Cameron hand making me a scotty is a contract signer in itself. who knows only time will tell.

I agree, my prov1 has never let me down and vokeys are great. The part about which woods are better though, I'm looking at numbers and numbers only. In that case, TM is better. They fly further, have more ball speed, and less spin than Titleist

 

personally my 915 flys way farther than my R1. My 915 carrys around 280 and rolls out to 320. My R1 took a perfect poke and great conditions to get those numbers. That is just a personal preference and everyones swing and numbers are different. Both clubs however I love.

Turned "teaching" pro. A ha, very different. I have a bunch of friends that are assistant pros. They seem to switch around a lot to get a variety of stuff. Whatever floats your boat. Titleist is probably the best gig for a teaching pro. I don't think TaylorMade's woods are that much better. Maybe you need to tweak the shafts in your Titleists.

How are you on tour and no one is paying you to play their clubs? I call phony on the no money. And BTW, I'd play whomever payed me the most. Only on WRX do people think it matters. They're just golf clubs. A guy with a tour quality move can play with anything. It's like flavors of ice cream. Some guys just like chocolate. If somebody pays him big bucks to eat vanilla, you think he eats vanilla?

I don't think you know much about being on staff with a company. There are different levels. Guys with status on major tours get some comp for using a certain brand. Everyone else gets free stuff and that's it. Or if they really feel bad for you they'll just charge like 40% off wholesale or something.

Correct although there are some contracts for non status players that give them some money to play their clubs as well as incentives built into the contract if player gets world ranking points or gets status on web, euro or pga tour.

You did not mention Nike in your choices, have you considered Nike?

Callaway . They are so good at making one offs that I could have pretty much anything I wanted made for me to play

Taylormade without question. Top to bottom, including Adidas shoes and clothing, they have the best lineup for sure. I would really hate to be forced to deal with Titleist high spin woods, so that's not an option.

Obviously you are not a touring pro. So........

PLAY WHATEVER THE F YOU WANT.

And eventually you'll get there.

If there is no money involved I would just keep dancing with the girl that brought you there. If you used Titleist to the success where you got a chance to turn pro, and nothing has dissuaded you from their products, keep going. There will always be another chance to switch, hopefully with $$ incentive.

Stick with titleist, next year when you get new gear again it will retain the most resale value!! TM and Callaway don't come close really on that part ?

No money? Whichever one I hit best on Trackman.