What do I do with old golf clubs?

“How many clubs can you play with?” Picture this voice coming from my beautiful bride. The one I cherish more than any on this Earth. She pretty much controls all that I do and oversees my whole existence to keep me afloat. So you can imagine my shock when she asked me this question. She knows the answer is 14. But the tone told me the story.

She was more commenting on the collection of, formerly favorite, golf clubs in our closet. The number seems to increase to the point that I actually think they reproduce on their own. (Don’t get me started on the noises I hear from them, but that is for a different conversation.)

So there I am, going through what I call “the arsenal” when the voice of my sweet chimes in. At that point, I wondered the same. My immediate answer to her was “NEVER enough golf equipment.” My brain told a different story though. I did have an awful lot of stuff.

What do I do with the weapons of years past? Thanks to technology, I have a bunch of choices now. I can do the tried and true and put up a letter at the local club with all my stuff I am looking to move to a new home. Maybe someone can find a use for that persimmon #6 wood that Dad gave me when I was 7.

I can also go the Ebay route. This has become the choice of the moment as it comes to selling just about anything. Ebay is nothing more than an auction. You place your item on their site and you take bids. You can even set a reserve if you think that club with the fake wood looking shaft is actually worth something. Once the bidding is over, you sell the item and pay Ebay a portion.

Or, you can visit the idea of trade in. Some of the best moves I have made in the battle against the growing of the golf collection has been trade in. I have taken 3 or 4 clubs I will never play again and turned them into new drivers or wedges. It is a great program and is much easier on my mind than Ebay is.

I prefer to hang onto most of the following items, Drivers, putters, wedges. As we have talked about in the past, I believe that confidence is something very important when it comes to your equipment. I hang onto anything that was once the magic wand. I have a few I will never get rid of.

I have an Odyssey White Hot Tour putter that I have played with only once. I have a Ping G5 driver that I swear will see my bag at some stage again. I have 3 or 4 sets of wedges “just in case” the new weapons decide to misfire. I have a couple Scotty Cameron putters in case the 3 wiggles infest my golf bag with my current putter.

I am a bit of a hoarder when it comes to golf equipment. I know that they worked before and they will work again, if they have to. They have proven they are equal to the task and so I hang on to them. (Much to the chagrin of some)

She should be thankful we don’t have a garage…yet!