Egolf Post

Jessica C asked:


Hi, my husband loves to golf, but needs new clubs. I don’t know anything about golf, but I would like to surprise him for our anniversary with a new set. What are some good brands, and how much can I expect to spend?

Dane Stanton asked:


Isn’t it tiring when you have to walk around that enormous 18-hole golf course every weekend? It certainly is for most elderly folk, but guess what? You don’t have to walk everywhere, why not buy yourself a personal golf cart to travel around the course on. It’s almost a certainty to say that it will inevitably improve you game in time due to the fact that you will have more energy to play with.

Nowadays, golf carts come in so many varieties, and they are even used generally for other purposes to transport small number of passengers between short distances at slow speeds like at airport terminals.

How important are golf carts while playing golf?

The simple answer is very! Especially for elderly people who don’t have the energy to be walk the whole distance around an 18 hole golf course. This is just one of the benefits of golf carts. The second is that they speed up the time it takes to play a round of golf. The question still remains however, is using a golf cart taking away everything we associate with this wonderful game. On the professional circuit, players are not allowed to use golf carts because the PGA believes that walking is an important part of golf and in order to preserve the heritage of golf players must walk between shots. With this all said however, they are very beneficial for lots of players

Many golfers these days are buying their own golf carts, some even custom made. Most members’ only golf courses have a place where people can store their golf carts when they are not playing.

Not stopping there, these golf carts are widely used as an official form of transport by many people around their neighborhood and to shop around. Even college children are driving these small vehicles to school and college.

It’s easy to buy golf carts these days since there are so many distributors out there in the market. In fact you can actually buy them from the internet, new and used. The average cost of a brand new golf cart is around $1500, depending on the make. If you were to buy a second hand golf cart you would pay much less and this option is much more advised.

A golf cart is also far cheaper than a car to maintain and repair. This is the main reason why many people are going for this vehicle, especially college and university students, and not just the golfers.

Moreover, just like car, a golf cart is also modifiable. Some posh golfers like their carts to look classic, while some others want them contemporary, and such modifications are pretty affordable as well.

Once you have purchased your own golf cart, you have the option of customizing it with extra features, including a paint job, side mirrors, new seats and many more accessories. Most people try to customize their carts in a way that best resembles their personalities. If you don’t believe, then next time you’re out on the course, take a closer look at every golf cart that goes by.

Tim E asked:


im 14 and i have gone golfing once and i was ok i guess but i was only three strokes over my dad any tips how to beat him

sputs10soccer asked:


I am trying to get into golf now that I have more time away from work and some money to afford new clubs and green fees. I played in the past, but not even close to good. Just played because it was fun. Now, I am going to take lessons and try to become reasonably good, so I want to get clubs that will be good to learn with, but also be clubs that I will have for a few years. My bro-in-law recommended the new Callaway Clubs, so any info on those clubs would be greatly appreciated, or any ideas for my club selection would also be greatly appreciated!

Lavente Tan asked:


Since the beginning of golf, golf ball compression have been widely debated and discussed among golfers. As technology have advanced into the modern age, golf balls have become better than before. Just through technology alone, the evolution of golf ball has wiped out most of the hard core and old Balata wound golf ball out of the market. Today, majority of the golf balls are soft core low compression golf balls. Till then, golf ball compression really mattered but now, it is no longer the case.

Back then, if a 70 was put onto a golf ball, it would be termed as a women’s golf ball. Now, low compression golf balls take up majority of the market. You can have 4 piece compression golf balls like Pro V1x in the mid 90s and TP Red in the mid 80s. Compression numbers cannot be used to determine your golf ball selection anymore.

Golf ball compression can now be generally differentiated into two types. They are the core compression and the overall compression. In general, core compression is normally the main reason for the feel when you hit a driver on the golf ball. The reason is because the club face fully compress the core upon impact and that is what causes the feel on a full swing.

For overall compression, it refers to the amount of deformation undergone to the whole golf ball when it is being subjected to a compressive force. This is typically important in generating the feel, spin and also the energy transfered from club face to golf ball.

Taking a deeper look, golf ball compression cannot be used to determine the feel of the golf ball. Take the Wilson Staff Zip golf ball for example, with a zero compression core, the golf ball feels completely different from that of a Srixon Soft Feel. Both golf balls have a golf ball compression of 55. Hence compression does affect feel but it cannot be used to determine feel today.

In fact, it is used more in the lab to design the golf ball such as C.O.R, sound, spin rates and velocity. It is more of the interaction of the layers that produce and determine your feel than normal golf ball compression.

Let us not look just on the numbers but beyond them to determine which golf ball suits you best. Every single material that makes up the golf ball have it’s own property that will contribute to the energy transfer, spin, feel, velocity, launch angle etc. With the technology nowadays, multi-layered golf balls are used to control the deformation to push the feel, velocity, spin, launch angle and other distance factors into another level. It is indeed quite a revelation in today’s golf.