How to Test Cougar Golf Equipment

Like most things in life, a golf club should be tested before you take it out to the range. Cougar Golf Equipment is no exception. Cougar manufactures a wide line of both clubs and bags. Many brands of golf equipment, including Cougar, test their merchandise before marketing it to the general public. It is, however, important for a golfer to get a good feel for his own equipment. This serves not just to establish a general rhythm with a piece of equipment but also to find its breaking point.

Things You'll Need

  • Golf balls
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Instructions

  1. The Clubs: The Inside

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      Go into a quiet and relatively empty room. A garage is ideal. It needs to be a room with good sound acoustics.

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      Drop your club on the ground. The ground needs to be a hard ground. Don't throw the club to the ground, as you may scratch it or break it. Just hold the club up, and drop it.

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      Listen to the sounds. Many golf equipment testers perform this test in a sound-proof room. They do this to listen for rattling in the inside of the clubs. If you hear a rattle, that means there is something wrong on the inner structure of the club.

    The Clubs: The Heads

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      Hit some balls. Big companies when testing equipment often fire golf balls at their club heads to test them. They test for the head's forgiveness (the more forgiveness a club has, the bigger the margin for error is in your swing) and map the club's sweet spot. You, however, are not a big golf equipment manufacturer. So your only way to really test a head is going to be to just hit some balls.

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      Listen to the sounds. Listen to the sound your club heads make when they make contact with the ball. This will help you determine whether something either needs to be tightened or is maybe fractured on the inside of the club.

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      Watch the ball. Your set of Cougar clubs will at the least come with a driver, 3-wood, 9-iron and a putter. Take all of your clubs and just try hitting the ball dead on straight. Watch where the ball goes. If the ball does not go straight, you'll know there is either something wrong with your club or with your swing.

    The Bag

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      Pull out the legs. While every golf bag doesn't have legs, a majority of them do. Manufacturers test these things just like you should, by trying them out. Just pull the legs out. At the factory before they send the bags out, many companies will extend the legs up to 10,000 times. Try doing this with a variety of different things in the bag, to see how easy the bag rests with different amounts of weight in it.

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      Open the zippers. A golf bag can be a complicated labyrinth of hidden pockets and compartments. It's important that you test those zippers to make sure there is no material obstructing the zipper's lining. It's also just good to know where all the pockets are.

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      Yank the straps. Remember that professionals have already tested the dexterity of most aspects of this bag before you've gotten your hands on it. That being said, it can't hurt to know exactly what your bag will feel like when you jerk it around a bit. Experiment with how your bag feels by yanking it around with different weights inside of it.