So the following has to be true for the seller to be selling fake stuff.Ģ. While you run the risk of buying a fake when you don't buy from an authorized retailer, the majority of NEW clubs sold on ebay are authentic.Įssentially all fake (counterfeit golf clubs) come from China.
If you have any questions about this subject, please feel free to contact us via our customer service."Most of the new clubs sold on ebay are fake". As a result, our selling prices are usually sharper than elsewhere.Īt you can in any case assume that ALL clubs are of original manufacture and absolutely no fake, counterfeit golf clubs are sold. We pay the lowest prices at our suppliers due to the large volume of our purchases. If the price is much lower than with us at, you can assume that something is seriously wrong. The best tips we can give you is: "use your wits". How do you prevent the purchase of imitation clubs? Then you are looking very embarrassed when, as a single-handicapper with your new bargain, for example a brand-new TaylorMade M6 driver, you don't swing more than 125 metres when you are used to 250. Often unsuspecting people become victims and pay hundreds of euros for fakes. For us 'insiders', a counterfeit golf club is usually clearly recognisable.įortunately, only a single copy is so beautifully copied that even with the original next to it, it is always difficult for us to discover whether we are dealing with real or copy. Every day many A-brand top clubs go through our hands.
Indeed, the quality of counterfeit drivers and irons is sometimes optically astonishingly good. You might think that as a golf fanatic you would immediately recognise such an imitation golf club when it is offered to you. Of all the major top brands, models have been copied and illegally copied. The second video exposes the same phenomenon with beautiful copies of Titleist AP2 irons.
The leading golf manufacturers spend millions on the technical development of golf equipment while all this knowledge and experience is lacking in counterfeit golf clubs.įunny but the instructive YouTube vlogs below where one of the most famous reviewers of new golf clubs Rick Shields deliberately purchased a copied TaylorMade M6 driver (2018) to compare it with the original. In practice it turns out to be a great disappointment. Unsuspecting buyers think they have struck the blow of their lives by buying a new A-brand golf club for a shot. Especially via online channels such as, Amazon and Ebay, but also via Marktplaats, one regularly 'finds' victims in the Netherlands.Īs a buyer it remains a difficult phenomenon to recognise, especially because the techniques for making beautiful copies are becoming more and more advanced. No less than 95% of the copied 'counterfeited clubs' (counterfeit clubs freely translated) are illegally produced in Asia and unfortunately frequently sold on the European and American markets. Cleverly copied clubs that look almost identical to their original but of course do not have the advanced innovations. Golf has become 'big business' for crooks and, in parallel with the innovative innovations of the various manufacturers of golf clubs, a huge market has emerged in copied golf clubs. Unfortunately, this market also attracts people who want to abuse it illegally.
Golf has grown enormously as a sport and has become an industry that involves a lot of money. The market for golf clubs has grown about 10 times over in the last 20 years.