Can $90 golf clubs really compete? In this review, I test the Calong Max Hybrid and 3 Wood on the range testing and launch monitor to see if these Temu golf clubs are actually worth buying or just another cheap gimmick. If you're searching for the best budget golf clubs, affordable fairway woods, cheap golf hybrids, or wondering whether Calong Golf can compete with TaylorMade, Callaway, PXG, Takomo, and other DTC brands, this video is for you. I'll show you where Calong saves money, how these clubs perform, and most importantly... who should (and shouldn't) buy them.
0:00 $89 Golf Clubs 0:34 Expectations & First Impression 1:30 Driving Range Performance 4:23 Launch Monitor Data 6:17 What $90 Buys You 8:00 Who Should Buy These 9:12 Who Shouldn't Buy These
These golf clubs cost $89 not bundle the two and save $89.
No, they're $89 a piece and they're from a club company that is
known more as a seller on Timu which would lead to the assumption
that the quality is probably not very good and maybe go as far as
to say these clubs are junk.
I want to tackle that assumption in today's video.
I want to test these put them to the ringer and see what they can
do and try to answer the question.
What does $90 actually buy you the golfer if you were to buy a $90
fairway would or hybrid.
So let's get into it.
Okay, let's set the table.
These clubs cost $90 a piece a hybrid and a three would OEM three
woods cost 350 to $400 DTC cost anywhere from like 200 to 300
hybrids.
Maybe the OEM is like 250 to 300 BTC 200 to 250.
Where does the money go?
How can you manufacture golf clubs for $90?
That's my hesitation.
And that's what's giving me kind of lower expectations for maybe
the quality the feel and the performance of these if we were to
look at them.
They don't look like cheap toys.
They don't look like $90 golf clubs the hybrid.
I like that matte finish the three would mean there's not a lot
going on.
So it doesn't make you feel like there's a lot of tech in there,
but they don't look like toys.
They look like decent golf clubs, but how do they feel because
$90 they can't feel as good as stuff that cost two three four
times as much.
Let's find out going to start with the hybrid.
This is 27 degrees.
So it's kind of like a five hybrid.
Maybe a six and a half one of the limitations that we know from
the jump is shaft and grip.
There's one grip option and it's not very good shaft options.
There's a few flexes.
There's no X flex.
I think I asked for stiff but they misunderstood and they sent
me the stiff regular.
They're both 65 grams.
So there's some limitation right there and what you can get for
90 bucks.
So this isn't fit for me whatsoever.
I got to swing it slow, but I want to see how this thing feels
what the performance and quality and strike is like 27 degree
hybrid very easy to hit that was super easy to hit.
I'm swinging at like 75% mind the construction happening behind
you.
I'm sorry.
I felt good.
I mean, I felt solid.
I've hit some some hybrids in the past and that felt as good as
anything else.
Little speed up there.
So my ball is going to go higher.
It's really easy to hit super easy to hit.
I mean, that's three carbon copies of each other.
Just towering baby fades and it feels feels good.
That doesn't feel cheap.
Like there's big compromises in the clubhead.
Not bad.
I'm pretty impressed early on.
Those are for basically the same shot.
I caught that one a little off the toe, but the flight was
basically the same.
So now let's check out this 15 degree 3 wood even just doing
that.
It feels way different than the hybrid hybrid feels pretty solid
almost like an iron.
This feels kind of old-school early metal wood titanium metal
wood that leaves a little bit to be desired.
Maybe that's where some of the money goes on a $90 3 wood.
It looks good at address again.
This is a very very soft shaft.
So I have to swing it quite slow bend it.
It sounds like a entry-level club.
Let's say not cheap cheaps the cheaps a poor term to use.
It sounds very entry-level that wasn't struck very well and
you could hear it sounded quite Timmy step into that one a
little bit space held open pretty easy to hit though.
Holy cow for a super soft medium stiff regular shaft.
It's gonna be hard to kind of sync up the club face.
Let's say strike feels fine doesn't feel as good as a hybrid
but it feels fine so easy to hit 90 bucks.
Let's hit one more than see if there's any compromises on
the launch monitor.
Okay, let's go to the studio.
All right, my low bar was well exceeded my expectations out
there.
We're low but the ball flight the forgiveness the ease of
hitting was really really impressive pretty much the same
experience.
I had with the Tacoma Ignis stuff a couple months ago and
the price tag on those two.
These is quite quite a divide between the two to bring them
in here.
I'm not nitpicking data.
We're not diving deep into data.
I can't get the full potential out of these golf clubs.
This is 65 grams stiff regular shaft.
I want to see just how tight are the windows of numbers and
the dispersion ease of hit and if we look at the hybrid the
dispersion alone like a plus numbers wise distance wise.
It's solid the window though the up and down of spin of launch
of ball speed is acceptable is what I would expect with a
super soft light shaft for someone like myself.
I had to swing it a little bit slower.
So that the sequencing maybe is off a little bit the club has
delivered a little bit inconsistently if you will but the
tolerances for 10 shots a passing grade 100% then we look at
the 3 wood again kind of the same.
I had to swing a little bit slower.
So we're going to see it's a spinny head.
It's a spinny easy to hit forgiving 3 wood kind of like that
Tacoma Ignis thing, which is a really good 3 wood.
But again big divide in price tags, but name that's that hang
up the numbers the window of distance and carry it's short
for me, but it's really really tight because if we look at
that dispersion circle, that's what you want out of the 3 wood
for that golfer that these are designed for it's maybe trying
to break a hundred trying to break 90.
They want a 3 wood that when they have to hit it, it's easy
to hit it goes high and it goes kind of the same distance every
time data wise ticks the boxes the club heads are solid the
compromise is here and that's what I think this whole $90 price
tag buys us.
It buys us some compromise.
The grip is not good.
I noticed it on the range and even in here gets a little warm
in here testing the grip slipped on one of the 3 woods, but
you can you can change a grip that is not a big deal.
The shaft is where we we want to hang our hat and just talk
a little bit because obviously there's three shaft options.
If you have a faster speed, there's no heavier weights.
Like there's no option for me or a player like me, but I don't
think a player like me is is looking into these golf clubs,
but I want to I want to ask you a question these club heads
if they were released by an OEM kind of in their game improvement
category.
They look the same felt the same is that a different name but
had that like shaft Matrix options premium options names.
We know of shafts.
No one would bat an eye that got that cool.
This is their game improvement stuff.
Awesome.
But if you had OEM release their current lineup with these
shafts, we would be like hold on.
Wait a minute.
What are these shafts?
Why are there only three flexes and two weights to choose from?
So that's where we see the big divide in the in the price tag
because obviously the overhead of carrying all these shafts
purchasing them from the third party manufacturers all that
plus plus plus fitting Matrix plus plus plus marketing plus
plus plus so this is where we see the divide in the price tag
and to answer my question at the beginning like what is $90
buy us it buys us a pretty solid golf club with some compromise
but who wants to buy these $90 golf clubs if you've never
broken a hundred never broken 90 don't care about the name on
the bottom of the club but want something that's really affordable
really easy to hit and pretty decently performing wise is for
you 100% like they're not junk.
They're not poor quality those team videos that I did two years
ago when I tested those.
I didn't know what Kalong was.
I had comments on those videos that like Kalong's a reputable
club manufacturer that makes good stuff overseas that a lot
of people use team was a marketplace where they sell their
stuff, but it seems to me that they sell more of their like
budget knockoff type stuff on team you they're more like
thoughtfully made stuff in my small pocket of research is on
their website because when they reached out they wanted to
send me these just like any brand that wants me to test
something.
I went to their website.
I looked on their website.
I didn't go to team who to see if they're on there to get like
muddled for my opinion on what to expect go on their website.
The price is there.
It's hard to navigate but I wanted to have that relationship
and that opinion upon going into testing $90 golf clubs.
If you're the golfer that has OEM stuff has been fit that wants
adjustability in the clubhead or in the in the hosel.
You're probably not even watching this video anymore, but
these aren't for you.
They're not for you.
You have too much experience with the whole area that we're
compromising in these golf clubs.
But if you want an affordable club, it's super easy to hit
performs.
Well, it's not too dissimilar from other DTC stuff that I've
tested and you don't you don't know the difference between
like shaft weight and flex.
You just want a stiffer regular or whatever the performance
there the clubhead solid easy to hit their forgiving.
They're thoughtfully designed kind of game improvement powerful
hybrids and fairway Woods.
So that low bar of expectation that I had the beginning is
definitely been been raised and I think I've confidently answered
what $90 buys us and who these golf clubs are for but let me
know.
What's your opinion?
Do you use Kalon golf clubs?
Sound off in those comments.
Let's talk about it.