Golf Club Set

A fresh approach to club attire

Jennifer Glaspie launched Chicago-based Aphira golfware to create apparel for the social golfer who wants to stand out on the green, not fit into the club.

by Carolyn Schwaar

When novice golfer Jennifer Glaspie was kicked off the green at a Florida golf club for wearing a sleeveless, collarless sweater, she didn’t know then that women’s golf apparel would become her life’s passion.

From the runway to the fairway

In 2000, Glaspie, a successful corporate business consultant at the prestigious Chicago-based firm of Baine & Co, started learning golf at the request of her boyfriend (now husband). But as her golf swing improved, this petite and style-savvy urbanite found her clothing options didn’t.

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Having quality equipment is important at every player level. However, as a novice golfer you may not be ready, or willing to pay for a high quality golf set. Fortunately there are several good quality beginner sets that are fine to start with. However, as your golf skills improve you may want to start replacing your beginner set clubs with higher quality clubs. In addition to purchasing a full set of golf clubs, novice golfers should also pick up instructional materials that cover the rules and regulations of the game, as well as helpful tips and tricks for mastering basic golf skills.

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Does the term clone golf clubs make you think of the word cheap? If it does, it really shouldn’t, because these golf clubs are beginning to become very popular among your fellow golfers. What makes these golf clubs so different? What are they to start with? Basically, clone golf clubs are the generic knockoffs of the Callaway, Cleveland, or other name models that are found in golf retail stores everywhere.

We all want to have an expensive set of golf clubs. It’s only natural to want to play with the same type of clubs that the pros play with on the weekends. However, new golf club sets can cost upwards of $1,000 or more! That rules out a huge majority of

golfers who simply can’t afford to pay that kind of money for a set of clubs. This is where clone golf clubs can come into play. They cost less than half the price of their name counterparts. Even less in some cases.

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