Cue cost questions - Cue Sticks vs Golf Clubs

Kevin Lindstrom

Kevin Lindstrom

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Do you think if cue stick prices were comparable to golf club prices.

Players would buy new cue sticks more often like golfers do with clubs?

Like to hear some thoughts.

Kevin
 
A golf stroke is much more complicated than a pool stroke, and the clubs have specific purposes.

If a seller could market more cues for different purposes, not just jump, break, and play, he could probably hook a lot of n00bs.

Also the cues we lust after are not the $100 cues. Nah they are too accessible. A special cue has to have a special price tag.
 
I think the Indians are looking for magic arrows or prettier arrows, instead of better or more training for the Indians.

I had a Wille Hoppe Cue from 1973 to 2001.. I actually wore at out the joint or joint screw, so I sold it. I bought a great Pechauer & still have it.

I do buy & sell Cues, but that's for profit.

Same goes for golfers & I speak of something I know about, because I was a Professional Golfer. Look at the numbers turned in by the greats.. & the golf ball of today is a bit better, but they are only $2.50 each.
 
Apples and oranges IMO.

For one thing an individual club is cheaper then most cues but a set of Ping irons is not. Not alot of golfers are replacing their irons every couple of years. Plus technology drives golf club advances whereas cues rely less on technology/engineering and more on craftmanship and quality materials and woods. Once you find a cue you really like that plays well there is not any real reason that in 10 years it will be warped by tech advances and not play as well as a new cue.
 
On average you're looking at two different income brackets for the two different sports. Golf sells more products because golfers have more disposeable income, which isn't hard to imagine since it isn't a sport for the lower income folks for the most part.

You can't even get out golfing for less than $100 in most places, so dropping money on gear here and there is just a small portion of the costs of golf in general and most of those folks can afford it, or at least a larger number of them can.

Pool has always been a lower income sport, or something people could do on a lot less money than golf. Many of the local weekly pool tournaments are only around $5 a night, some a little more and some free just to get people out in hopes that they'll drink. There's no golf in that price range period.

If you want to sell more cues etc, you'd need to raise everyones disposeable income. We could start by reducing unemployment and fixing everything that's wrong with this economy. Technically it's a lot of the golfers that have all the pool players money. :)
 
Used correctly, golf clubs wear out--shafts mostly, but after 3-4 shafts, the club face is pretty much gone too.

Used correctly, pool cues do not wear out--tips wear out, mabe a ferule or two, but unless you damage the shaft or butt, it can be used basically forever.
 
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