Every year golf reps across the country have equipment that they can make available to pro shops and retailers to use as demo stock. While technically by the time you got your hands on this these ex demo golf clubs they’d be be slightly used – it’s your best chance of getting some as-new, cheap golf clubs
And for the price you will pay I guarantee there will be no complaints.
Are You Friends With Any Golf Pro’s?
I’m going to give you a few tips on how to go about getting your hands on some demo stock. The most important thing you need to do is build some sort of relationship with a golf retailer.
Without a doubt your local retailer can be one of the greatest source of discount deals on ex demo golf clubs – something that seems to get overlooked with all the online options available today.
This will be especially true if they see you as a regular customer. Now when I say regular I don’t mean you have to spend hundreds of dollars every month (although it definitely wouldn’t hurt). You just need to be on their radar. Drop in regularly and have a chat, talk some golf and some other stuff as well.
This will work to your advantage in a number of couple of ways.
- You will be getting the very best inside info available. Any time there is an upcoming sale or closeout deal, you are going to be one of the first to know.
- They will look after you when you do spend some money.
So back to the demo golf clubs.
The retailer gets the demo golf club dirt cheap, but they usually have to agree not to sell the club until after a certain date. So you need to get in early and let them know that you are interested in taking it off their hands when they are ready to sell it. If you’ve got a good relationship with them then they are going to be more likely to give the deal to you – depending on how many other regulars are interested in the same golf club.
It is also possible that if there is a certain piece of equipment you are interested in the retailer will be able to get it in as a demo if they don’t currently have it. Often times in this situation they will keep it out the back and it will be trialled even less than the other demo golf clubs they have in the shop.
If you do get the opportunity to buy a demo golf club or set, it will just about be the greatest deal you get in your golfing career.
Another option…
Just briefly, another option that is very similar is to buy stock from pro’s that golf companies give them to trial. So if you are friends with a club pro, and they get a set to trial that you are interested in, casually let them know you’d be willing to buy them if they didn’t like the set.
If you’re not friends with a club pro…get onto to that right now. They can open up a whole world of cheap golf that you never knew about.
Craig