| Let's be honest here. How many of you have bought a driver and never hit it before you bought it? I have, however it was a TM R7 and I got my money back when I traded it in. Plus I bought it for a great price.
Other than that I have never bought a driver, or fairway, or rescue club without trying it out first. Same as my irons. Now I have bought new wedges without hitting them, but I had used ones like them before so I knew what they were like.
Here is the deal. You go demo a new driver. You find one you really like, hit well and think "OK this is the one for me"
Then you walk back into the store and say "I am buying it but I want a new one with the plastic on it please"
Sorry to say this but you just defeated the purpose of doing the demo with the driver. WHY? Simple, the shaft in the one you buy might and quite often is just a bit different in flex. Now you have a new driver, 3 wood, rescue etc that you might not hit well.
Then you wonder "Man I hit that demo so well and yet this one keeps leaking to the right on me"
Well now you know why!
The store I deal at used to have a barrel full of demo drivers. It no longer has that. If you want to demo a driver they tape the crown, sole and part of the face to avoid DUMMY MARKS and you hit it.
That way you are hitting the actual driver you are going to buy, or SHOULD BUY.
Words of wisdom from not only me, but two CPGA Pros.
Last edited by Golfbum : 01-19-2007 at 12:03 PM.
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