Meaningless Club Feature That Annoys You

[freeflyer14]

Bore through hosels.  Makes reshafting a complete PITA.  I’m looking at you Callaway...

[Hacker541]

Busy/bright graphics on graphite shafts. I've had to have adapters removed and rotated to get the graphics back pointed down after adjusting.  

[Buzzkill]

Factory decals on irons!

[QuigleyDU]

Having to stamp "forged" of part of it is forged. Or "tungsten" if there is tungsten. Or "laser beams" if their are laser beams... 

[Krt22]

Glued on badges. Only miss srixon has with the latest ZX irons are the glued on badges of the 5 series

[QuigleyDU]

2 hours ago, jlukes said:

The Visual marketing on irons drives me crazy.  I know what my irons are, you do not need to stamp/paint marketing terms on them!

FORGED!!

TUNGSTEN!!

They might as well stamp "for sale" on them as well. Or "metal" or a spot with an arrow that says "grooves"... I agree.

[dlygrisse]

Nothing really bothers me, as long as the club looks pretty square at address, I hate clubs that look closed to my eye.  That being said, I find the shaft stickers with the bar code or the price of the club that they have on there at the stores to be my one golf OCD issue.  If I am playing golf with someone and they still have the shaft sticker on their club it just bothers me.  🙂

 

Other than that I like my stuff pretty standard, except I do like my irons a bit upright.  

[golfday]

2 hours ago, forrester_fire said:

 

I hadn't heard that about Ping's irons, but that would definitely make (intuitive) sense.  I thought I had heard it explained as it moves mass away from the hosel and moves the COG more toward the middle of the iron.

 

I think easier and more often from what I've heard. Could be wrong, but I've read that too many loft and lie adjustments will eventually break a club, but the notch let's you do it more times before that happens.

[dhen9]

Scoring lines on my driver. Not annoying but sooooo 20th century

[iNeedMoreGolf]

5 hours ago, MtlJeff said:

I am SUPER passionate about this even though it affects me so little because i buy my own headcovers anyway, which anyone can see in my avatar

 

BUT ....why do MFR's make headcovers that BARELY fit over the head of their drivers? I've seen this so much recently. Like you buy a driver and the sales guy gets the headcover, and i'm like "this doesn't fit" and he'll say "oh for sure it does!" and then pull it down like an olympic weightlifter to get it on. Probably half the drivers i've bought in the past 3-4 years, getting the headcover on is a real chore, like what, was there a shortage of materials that you couldn't make this thing 5% bigger? Or maybe use stretchier material?

 

It takes me back to my college days, when i had the same issues trying to get on size XXXL condoms

 

If its too loose you wont feel it go in... dont you know this? Your suppose to like the tight squeez in.

Edited February 16, 2021 by iNeedMoreGolf

[dlygrisse]

16 minutes ago, iNeedMoreGolf said:

If its too loose you wont feel it go in... dont you know this? Your suppose to like the tight squeez in.

The last time I bought a custom headcover, it was for a hybrid, it was a Stich cover.  It was too loose, it kept falling off the hybrid and I kept having to go back and find it all over the course.  Finally I lost the stupid thing.  I prefer the covers that come with the clubs because they fit.  🙂  

[PJE]

2 hours ago, LukeDonaldsTiger said:

Could be worse. The German word for it is „Wolfram“. It’s also a super old fashioned male name. 

That is awesome. I wish I owned a club company so I could stamp "Wolfram Technology" somewhere on the club.  And market my clubs as infused with Germanic Wolfram, vastly superior to ordinary tungsten, in much the same way my putters use German Stainless Steel. 

[doctorgriffo]

3 hours ago, forrester_fire said:

1. The cutout on the hosel of the Ping irons bothers me.  I'm sure there's a reason for it, but don't care for it. 

Can't play Ping irons because of this. Totally irrational, I get why it is there, and Ping make great clubs, but it bothers my eye so much it makes me shudder just to think about it. There is probably a technical phobia term for it (notchophobia?).

[aenemated]

Any sort of alignment guides on grips be it a brand logo - looking at you, GolfPride - or overdone patterns. I just don't even get why they're necessary - I'm opening/closing the clubface at setup just as often if not more often than squaring it so they're actually detrimental as it just messes with my OCDness. 

 

This is my only issue with JMX Ultralites (their wraps are just WAY too heavy) but I'm tolerating it for now. 

[Jbigda]

3 hours ago, LukeDonaldsTiger said:

Dude. I’m dying here. 

Question is, what’s changed since back then? Put on more muscle or did something get a little smaller?

💯💯💯💯💯😂😂😂😂😂

[cardoustie]

I hate iron badges, please let’s move away from the Nascar look 

 

i don’t like the comment on ferrules fwiw

 

my badgeless zx7 irons look solid with white and silver ring ferrules ... 

 

also I despise the weights and ridges on the sole side of fairways and hybrids that completely fill with dirt in soft conditions 

[wjdpar1]

23 minutes ago, Deuce78 said:

Me too.  But what's the reason you dont like it?

 

IMO it violates the rule there should be no crap on a high end golf club.  How many PGA Pros have this grip.  The answer is 0.

 

Why PING would do this as standard equipment is a big mystery to me and quite frankly a deal killer.  I won't play these clubs which means I won't be buying them - which is more to the point.

[GeauxGolfLSU]

Damn ribbed alignment grips bother the hell out of me. It’s the equivalent of a shoe manufacturer sewing a pebble underneath the insole. 
 

And UPC stickers and what not that just rip instead of peeling off. Why?

[Duct Tape]

Two pages and still no turbulators. 🤓

[MSB]

Custom ferrules, wedge stamping, any kind of modified paintfill, non-black grips, putters with wizards and dogs stamped on them

 

They are golf clubs, not arts & crafts projects.

 

 

[HappyGilmoresBoots]

36 minutes ago, EatDrinkRunLSU said:

Damn ribbed alignment grips bother the hell out of me. It’s the equivalent of a shoe manufacturer sewing a pebble underneath the insole. 
 

And UPC stickers and what not that just rip instead of peeling off. Why?

Theft prevention - if they peeled off cleanly, unsavory folks could peel the stickers off and put new, lower-priced ones on.

[cardoustie]

18 minutes ago, MSB said:

Custom ferrules, wedge stamping, any kind of modified paintfill, non-black grips, putters with wizards and dogs stamped on them

 

They are golf clubs, not arts & crafts projects.

 

 

Heresy 

[Gohigh]

Was it just me or did anyone notice the annoying whistle sound when swinging SIM drivers? I also noticed it when swinging SLDR back in the day, but something about those front tracks. Again... just me? 🦗

[Nard_S]

Modern drivers are shaped like oblong saucer dishes. Who thought it was a good idea to black out the face of any driver or metal? Why are garish neon accent colors so widely used? Why is white used? A club should look like a 911 and a not a Chrysler Cordoba. 

Edited February 17, 2021 by Nard_S

[SylvesterLundgren]

9 hours ago, Tmintx said:

Here come the turbuhaters...

But like the forgiveness and distance combo ping offers... on the low 

[SylvesterLundgren]

1 hour ago, MSB said:

Custom ferrules, wedge stamping, any kind of modified paintfill, non-black grips, putters with wizards and dogs stamped on them

 

They are golf clubs, not arts & crafts projects.

 

 

You better never buy a handcrafted project x shaft nor handcrafted irons,wedges and putters 🤣

[SylvesterLundgren]

7 hours ago, elwhippy said:

Not so much of an issue in 2021 but TM and Callaway used to put the cheapest, nastiest grip possible on a top spec driver or fairway wood. 

X 22 grip or something lol 

[SUPERG]

Designs on the top of a driver or wood crown, I don’t need little green or orange stripes on a black crown!!!

[Hawkeye77]

2 hours ago, MSB said:

Custom ferrules, wedge stamping, any kind of modified paintfill, non-black grips, putters with wizards and dogs stamped on them

 

They are golf clubs, not arts & crafts projects.

 

 

Having been struck down by lightning I’m sure you won’t see this. 
 

Modification, Personalization, Expressification, Jazzitupication, Golfwrxnation!

[jacobanderson123]

7 hours ago, Hawkeye77 said:

I end up "standard" on all my adjustable drivers/fairways/hybrids ---- would LOVE an option for a head you just have a shaft glued into.  I really miss that.

Don't really understand your issue. Even if you're using standard always then at the very least you have the option to change loft and shafts with ease, and even if you don't ever use it I don't see the downside.

Edited February 17, 2021 by jacobanderson123