Hi, this is Pete Makepeace calling from Solly Hull in the United Kingdom, and I play at Stonebridge Golf Club.

This is Golf Smarter number.

484, published on April 14, 2015.

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Within the serious golfers that are out there, there's a definite faction who look at this

possibility of nonconforming equipment.

Plain and simple label it cheating.

Well, okay, it is cheating if you use it in a real competition, even if that's anywhere from

your Saturday morning sweeps,

to the club championship, to the county amateur, to the state amateur, and on out.

But there's a whole bunch of people who probably would never play in those things.

Simply want to go out and just hit it a little bit better than they do right now.

My side of the coin is a little different because I've watched

how the whole business model is that all the big golf companies go out and they do their engineering

and they develop their new clubhead technology and then they build their golf clubs so they're all

same length, same loss, same lie angles, same everything so that they can be shifted into all the retail stores

to more easily be sold off the rack. That's how you sell $400 million worth of golf clubs a

year, but the point still remains. Golfers are as different in our size, our strength, our athletic

ability, and especially in our swing characteristics. Standard-made clubs are not going to help

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