Tiger Woods said: "I didn't originally go along with the equipment changing everyone else was doing, and I got left behind." What this tells us is if you don't upgrade your equipment, you get left in the dust.
Illegal knock off clubs place a bogus brand label on a club. This violates trademarks, copyrights and patents law. If a manufacturer makes a club just like a Callaway club, as long as that manufacturer does not place a Callaway label on the club, they are within the law.
Quality legal knock off or clone golf clubs are another matter. They are beginning to get popular worldwide and don't need to cost an arm and a leg. These clone golf club are made as professionally as a brand name club. Often you get equal or greater selection buying factory direct clone clubs. You can also receive custom tweaks that may not be offered by a brand name.
Clubs are constantly evolving and if you don't take advantage of new technological improvements your friends and competing golfers will pass you by. You'll have to upgrade your equipment.
Basically, clone golf clubs are the generic knockoffs of the Ping, Taylormade, Callaway, Cleveland, or other name models that are found in golf retail stores.
New specialty built golf clubs are the choice of many professionals. The difference between clone golf clubs is similar to the differences between fishing poles in that while none are exact copies of the other, pole makers copy the same performance characteristics and features from each other.
Clone golf clubs are made similar materials as brand name golf clubs. The same shaft suppliers sell to the major clone manufactures as they do to the brand names. The same goes for the grips, head and composite heads.
What we are saying is that you get the same performance and get a better value than the brand name clubs have to offer. Golf manufacturing suppliers make all sorts of hybrid and standard equipment. The are a small community and sell to both brand names, off brand and clone golf markets.
Golf club heads come in a diverse assortment of shapes, sizes and composites. Golf club designers can use any shape, weight and design without violating another company's trademark.
