Where's the cheapest place to buy golf clubs? A UK guide

Ask ten golfers where the cheapest place to buy clubs is and you'll get ten answers, most of them wrong. The honest truth is there's no single shop that's always cheapest. Some channels tend to be cheap, some tend to be dear, and one or two are a fast way to get properly stung. Which one wins on the day mostly comes down to whether you want new or used, and how much faffing about you're willing to do.

So this is the honest tour of where to buy golf clubs in the UK, and what each place is good and bad at. If you want the nuts and bolts of reading a price once you've found one, the postage, the condition grades, all that, our guide on how to compare golf club prices covers it. This one is about where to look in the first place.

The big online retailers, and when they slash prices

For a brand-new club, the online golf shops are almost always cheaper than a bricks-and-mortar pro shop, and it isn't close. Lower overheads, faster stock turnover, and a lot of them scrapping over the same customer. The names worth checking, the ones we pull prices from on every product page, include Click Golf, Golf Gear Direct, Hot Golf, Clarkes Golf and Affordable Golf. The big high-street names like American Golf and Scottsdale are worth a look too when they've got a sale on.

The trick with the online lot is timing. Golf runs on a model cycle: the big brands drop new gear in January or February, and last year's version starts tumbling by mid-summer. By autumn a year-old flagship can be a third or more off its launch price for barely any drop in performance. Add Black Friday and the January sales and there are two or three windows a year when new clubs are genuinely cheap rather than just "on offer".

What you get for buying new from a proper retailer, beyond the club itself, is the boring stuff that actually matters: a full manufacturer warranty, a 30-day window to send it back if you hate it, and often a fitting thrown in.

Pro shops and member days

Your club pro shop is rarely the cheapest on headline price, and that's fine, because that isn't what it's for. You pay a little more for someone who'll fit you properly, sort a re-grip while you wait, and take the club back if it's wrong. For a driver or a set of irons, that's worth real money.

Dormy is the one to know here. Alongside decent prices on new gear, they run member days and rewards for people who sign up, so if you shop with them more than once it pays to be on the list. Keep an eye out for their in-store demo days too, where you can hit a club before you commit and often pick up an offer on the day. It's the middle ground between the cheapest price online and the reassurance of buying in person.

Straight from the manufacturer

People forget you can often buy direct from the folk who made the club. Callaway, for instance, run their own store with proper deals on, plus a separate Callaway Pre-Owned outlet where certified used clubs come with a warranty, which is about as safe as second-hand gets. TaylorMade, Ping and the rest do similar, with ex-demo and outlet sections worth a rummage.

Direct isn't always the cheapest, the retailers undercut them plenty of the time, but the manufacturer outlets are a great shout for certified pre-owned, custom specs, and last-gen stock they're clearing themselves. Worth a check before you assume a retailer is the only option.

The used specialists: the value sweet spot

If your goal is genuinely the cheapest clubs that are still good, this is where you want to be. The used-club specialists take trade-ins, grade them, and sell them on with a warranty and a returns policy, which is a world away from a punt on a stranger's clubs.

The ones we compare include Golf Clubs 4 Cash, Pre-Owned Golf, The Second Hand Golf Shop and Mega Golf, all UK outfits that grade their stock, usually something like as-new, excellent, good and fair, so you know what you're getting before you buy. Replay Golf is another well-regarded used specialist worth a browse. A "like-new" or "excellent" club is often impossible to tell from new at address and a fair chunk cheaper, and you still get comeback if something's off.

For most golfers who aren't chasing the very latest release, a graded used club from one of these is the sweet spot: cheap, safe, and barely a compromise. You can browse used deals across all of them on the shop and filter by category and condition.

eBay: bargains and the odd landmine

eBay is a proper hunting ground for cheap clubs, both from used-club shops running eBay storefronts and from private sellers clearing the garage. Buy-it-now from an established seller is low-risk; the auctions are where the real bargains hide if you're patient and don't get carried away at the death.

Two things to watch. Fakes are out there, especially on premium drivers and any price that looks too good to be true, so check the seller's feedback and ask for extra photos of the sole, hosel and serial number. And buying from a private seller means limited returns, so you're more on your own than you would be with a shop. Pay with something that gives you buyer protection and you're mostly covered.

Facebook Marketplace and the local bargain

For the absolute lowest headline price, local is king, and Facebook Marketplace is where it lives now. Someone shifting a full set for the price of a single new club, a barely-used driver going for half of retail because they've already bought the next one. If you know exactly what you're looking at, there are steals to be had.

The catch is everything else. There's no real selection, so you take whatever happens to be listed near you. No returns, no warranty, no grading, just a photo and a stranger's word. And you'll be meeting someone to hand over cash, so do the sensible things: meet somewhere public, look the club over properly before any money moves, and walk away if it feels off. Brilliant for a local bargain if you know your stuff, a quick way to buy a fake if you don't.

So where is the cheapest, really?

Here's the answer nobody selling you clubs will give you: there's no single cheapest place. The cheapest place to buy any given club is wherever happens to have the best deal on it that day, and that shifts around constantly. The driver that's dearest at one shop this week is the bargain next week when they clear the last of the stock.

Which is the whole reason we built CaddyCompare. Instead of you opening a dozen tabs, we pull the live prices for a club from across the retailers above, new and used, onto one page, so you can see who's genuinely cheapest right now and click straight through to them. We don't sell the clubs, we just point you at whoever's cheapest that day. Start on the deals page for what's dropped lately, or the shop to price up a club you've got your eye on.

The short version: try a used specialist and last season's model first, compare a few retailers before you commit, and only bother with Facebook Marketplace if you genuinely know what you're looking at.

Frequently asked questions

For the mechanics of reading a price once you've found one, see how to compare golf club prices. When you're ready to shop, the deals page shows the latest price drops and the shop lets you price up any club across new and used. Or browse our other buying guides.