cutting down clubs for kids
Gray Huggins
to play with. What length should I make the shafts? My kids are 6
and 9. Is there going to be a problem with kids learning golf using
adult size club heads instead of smaller kids size?
thanks!
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Harry Kamens
>From: hug...@works.ti.com (Gray Huggins)
>Subject: cutting down clubs for kids
>Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 16:50:52 GMT
Gray,
Personally I think regular clubs designed for kids is the best way to go.
The size and weight should be closer to what is needed. However, a recent
issue of the magazine from the USGA had an article about Arnold Palmer's
workshop. Included was a picture of his 4 year old grandson using club Arnie
had cut down. If Arnold Palmer lets his grandson play with cut down clubs then
it can not be too bad an idea.
On the other hand you have two kids of different ages. I don't see how you
could get by with one set of clubs for them. Clubs for the 9 year old would be
too big for the 6 year old.
One idea would be to buy a junior set for the 9 year old. You should be able
to find a used set somewhere. A couple of years from they will be to big for
the older child and you can pass them down to the younger child.
When my son was 6 I bought him a starter set from K-Mart ($50 - but ten
years ago). It included a driver, 5-7-9 irons, putter, and bag. He got 3 years
of use out of it so the price really wasn't that much.
Good luck encouraging your kids in golf. My son was 14 when he beat me for
the first time. That was the most enjoyable round of golf I ever played.
Harry Kamens
har...@avs.kent.edu
Robert Hauswald
Gray Huggins <hug...@works.ti.com> wrote:
>I have an old set of clubs that I would like to cut down for my kids
>to play with. What length should I make the shafts? My kids are 6
>and 9. Is there going to be a problem with kids learning golf using
>adult size club heads instead of smaller kids size?
>
Just finished building 9 clubs for kids (my own boys and a friend's son).
Cutting down clubs: depends what age your kids are. The problem is that the
shafts are quite heavy and the kids end up with real clunkers. For the
6 year old, just buy the stuff from Golfworks: they are inexpensive and I
like the Apollo kid shafts a lot. For the 9 year old you should reshaft your
old set if it's in good shape.
Here is what I did (kids 3, 5 and 6): bought to below standard weigt 7 woods
and cut them down, built a kid 3 wood; built three kid 7 woods with Apollo
shafts (Golfworks because they were much less expensive than Golfsmith but
the sales person was just over the edge: hysterical); built a kid putter for
my 3 year old (too light) and 2 regular putters for the other kids (Anser
clones) all with Apollo shafts.
Happy clubbuilding,
Robert Hauswald
Greg Pannell
Golfworks.
Before this I tried cutting the shafts of adult clubs down to fit my
kids but the heads had too much weight and the kids had trouble
swinging the club.
I have been building clubs for the past 7 years and the parts I bought
from Golfworks made it simple and everything is weighted so that a
child can swing them very well. Also for the hand size the junior
grips are a necessity.
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Gary Bourque
In article <HUGGINS.94...@dino.works.ti.com>, hug...@works.ti.com (Gray Huggins) writes:
> I have an old set of clubs that I would like to cut down for my kids
> to play with. What length should I make the shafts? My kids are 6
> and 9. Is there going to be a problem with kids learning golf using
> adult size club heads instead of smaller kids size?
>
> thanks!
>
I guess to a length that looks reasonable so they can assume a proper
stance and swing with comfort. Also, be a aware that you may want
to take some weight out of the clubheads because they are probably going
to still be too heavy for them.
My recommendation is go pick up a couple of sets of junior golf
clubs for them. These are made with lengths and weights appropriate
to different age groups and are very reasonable.
There's nothing I hate more than to see a parent at the range
trying to teach his kid golf with clubs too big and heavy for
the child. He or she is just going to be frustrated and learn
bad habits that way, not to mention not have any fun, and may
end up hating the game.
Kids like, being caught in the big adult world, to find things
that are "just their size". It makes them feel like they fit in.
I would definitely try to find golf clubs that meet this criteria.
Good luck!
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KYLE
Thanks, Kyle
Chris_Chaloux
the ratio of where my clubs fall on my body to cut their shafts. That is, I look at
where my 7 iron comes to on my arm/body when it is standing beside me, and
mark the kids clubs to do the same. It has worked OK. You have to trade-off
when they'll be too shart versus how much "proportionally overlength" they
can stand at the moment.
Regarding swingweight, I assembled some junior heads to lite shafts recently.
They were lighter, but not a lot lighter. If you're cutting down old wooden woods,
there is typically lead under the soleplate that can be removed. Also, in many
older irons, there is lead down the shaft that can be removed.
Merritt
of the clubs. I think it would be much easier to learn to hit
a club properly (off the sweet spot) if it lied flat on the
ground. A little loss of distance to achieve this would be
well worth it.
Mary Merritt
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