Buying A Better Game

July, 1989

By Acquiring new golf equipment, you accomplish many worthwhile things: You mentally shift the blame for past mis-hits and banana slices onto the treacherous old clubs you are abandoning, freeing you to imagine that your new set will be made up of dub-free, straight-arrow, cup-finding ball-mashers; you feed the all-American obsession to acquire the latest, bestest, mostest, thereby keeping the post-Carter economic boom going; and you get a new reason to spend even more time golfing, to maximize...