Best BEGINNER Budget Golf Bag BUILD in 2025

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You’ve just started the game and you either want to build or upgrade your golf bag on a budget. The only issue is you have no idea where to start. Guys, how you doing? Welcome back to a brand new video. Simon down here at Replay Golf to build the perfect beginner golf bag. And does that actually exist? Because whether you’ve literally just started the game or been playing for a year or two looking to basically invest in a golf bag, it’s probably time you learn with this game, there’s no such thing as perfection. However, with the incredible amount of stock that Replay has here, I’m pretty sure I can give you the dos and don’ts of how to build your beginner golf bag on a very good budget. And also because some of the tech that we have in here is only four or 5 years old, I don’t think any of you would see any difference between that than let’s say a brand new set of beginner golf clubs. Let’s start with golf bags. And a quick tip to start right out the gate. If you’re not worried about condition and you just want a bag for 20, 30, 40, Facebook Marketplace is actually a really good place to obviously have a look. However, the main decision is are you going to be carrying your golf clubs going forward or you going to be using a trolley? If you’re using a push trolley, electric trolley, cart bag is the way to go. Just remember with say these bigger stand bags, the more pockets, the more stuff you go put in it, the heavier it’s going to be. Considering I’ve got this place to myself for the moment, let’s pick a nice looking bag to obviously build this out from, which probably is going to cost the same amount as actually the set I’m about to build for you. I always start a bag build from the irons and then work out from that. Here’s another tip going forward. Just because we’re allowed 14 clubs in our bag doesn’t mean you need 14 clubs in your bag just at the moment. And what I mean by that is your game is constantly going to be changing. Therefore, you kind of need your bag to be somewhat fluid going forward and it’s a lot easier to buy a club, let’s say, down the line that actually you need to go a particular yardage because you’ve been playing a while and you know there’s a gap rather than just guessing. And a lot of that will make sense as we go through the bag. However, let me find two to three sets that I think would be great for this bag. Now, when choosing your beginner iron, forgiveness is all we’re after. So, regardless of brand, if it’s big, it’s chunky, it’s something that’s going to suit you. And just to compare, obviously, you can see these Cobras, these aren’t what I’m going to choose, but see these Cobras, big offset, chunky. Compare them to, let’s say, these Cobra Forge tech. Look how much smaller that is. If you’re unsure and you’re looking on something online, just put it into Google and just read the reviews. It will say whether it’s a beginner, offset, forgiving head, or let’s say something a bit more scary like that. Now, there’s actually quite a lot to actually choose from, but I’ve got three quite different sets of irons, and I think it’s important to say going forward that all of these irons could suit a lot of beginners. However, let’s start with shaft, shall we? graphite or steel, which one is going to suit you best? Now, even though some of you might be quite slow at the moment, doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to be slow in three, four months time, especially after a few lessons. My honest advice is that if you are a complete beginner, and I would say over the age of 60, just go straight into graphite. It’s going to save you a lot of time. It’s going to be light and actually graphite is a lot more dampening on shock. Therefore, if you do have arthritis or your hands have started hurting, graphite is a great method for that. However, for the vast majority of you, because you’re not necessarily using the right parts of your body, let’s start with still regular flex whilst you’re growing, getting better at this game. And here’s a nice little set of Tailor-Made M2s, £289, which I think is a perfect little price range for this bag build. But there’s a problem with this iron set. A problem that isn’t necessarily a problem with the other two. And I’ll talk about that problem in a second. However, let’s talk about stiff flex for a beginner. If you are playing with your let’s say a hand-me-down irons at the moment or you’ve just picked up a cheap set of irons and you’re hitting your seven iron let’s say 170 yards carry because obviously you got lots of club head speed okay stiff flex can make sense. Now I can’t be confident in that because there’s so many things that go into a golf swing and regular flex shafts help the ball go let’s say higher and more to the left. So, even if you are fast and you can hit a seven iron at 180 yards, but your bigger miss is out to the right, I’d highly advise regular flex. Alternatively, if your miss is high left, for example, and you’re not even hitting your 7 iron 170 yards, then maybe stiff flex or a light stiff flex might suit you better. And again, I’ll talk about why these are safe options in a minute. But let’s look at the Ping G400s for a minute. £450, which isn’t surprising considering graphite does tend to be a bit more expensive. But look how many irons we’re getting. First rule for a beginner bag, never put a four iron in your bag. And we’ll talk about what’s going to be the forearm replacement. But look, we’ve got a pitching wedge, we’ve got a gap wedge, we’ve even got a 56° wedge down the bottom there, which means here the bottom end of the bag, apart from the putter, is basically complete. And I mentioned we had a problem earlier with these Tailormaids because they are a great price, but there are only six irons there. And this pitching wedge because obviously it’s a more cavity back will be delofted. So it’s probably going to be about 44 45° which means outside of this and we’ll go on to wedges in a minute. I’d need to buy another wedge or two more wedges. However, these Wilsons actually go from five all the way to gap wedge, which means that actually I only need one more wedge potentially for the bottom end of the bag. And as I said at the start, you don’t need 14 clubs. So if you just want to get these and see how you get on with them, then great. But then in a couple of weeks you think actually I need a bit more versatility around the greens and get another wedge. But for the moment this is the set that’s going in the bag. £279 spent. And the other thing I mentioned about the irons with let’s say Wilson, especially nowadays actually a tailor made Callaway Ping is that if and when you outgrow your irons, let’s say you want to go to something a bit more sleeker, a bit more control, not necessarily as much forgiveness, you can then obviously come and trade these in. And obviously with bigname brands, they hold their price. So those pings, those tailor, those Wilsons at the price they are going to hold their price. And there you can upgrade to something like this around $3.49 49. It’s one of the big things I always talk about my channel as even a brand new club fit, especially for a beginner, they have no idea where your game’s going to be. So, you could outgrow those Wilsons that I have in the bag there in, let’s say, 3 months, you could do it in 2 years, right? Let’s find a wedge for this bag. And there’s a few different ones I want to talk about. Going to something like this straight away for me and a beginner isn’t necessarily the right move forward. Number one, this is almost like a blade in terms of it looks a lot more like let’s say that and obviously from the iron choice I just showed you a big cavity back. We’re building our bag for forgiveness. Number two is that even though these are some of the easiest clubs and when you start the game to get up in the air and go straight, one of the hardest to master, getting the right impact factors to get spin and control and compression with a wedge is so tough. So, let’s not make that harder for oursel. Okay, I found a perfect prime example here. We’ve got this Cleveland zip core. Now, notice how chunky and how big that bounce is. Chunky and forgiving. Doesn’t necessarily, just like I mentioned with the irons, give us maximum versatility. Now, I can’t open this face and hit a high flop shot. See how much that sits off the ground there as much as I would with the SM10. But we’re looking for bump and runs. We’re looking for damage limitation. Let’s get it over the obstacle and close to the flag. And at around £71 or60, that for me is a great choice. We know the gap wedge in our set over here is 48°. Now, this is 43°. So, that would be a huge gap between our 56 and obviously our pitching wedge, but not so much. We’re talking 8° between our gap wedge and our 56. And you could argue putting a 52 in there as well, and then obviously a 56 or 58. But to be honest, for me, a beginner, let’s keep it simple. Let’s just hit knock down shots with this if we need to not necessarily go as far and then use this for the bunkers and obviously nice shots around the green. Not to mention, it obviously keeps our budget down as well. Before we complete the top end of the bag, I think we should probably talk about putters and some of the dos and don’ts. Now, this isn’t gospel because putting is very much um personal to you. You might like a thinner grip, for example. But if you’re just starting the game and you want some advice from something that I see help a lot more, number one is find a putter with, let’s say, a thicker grip. Helps our wrist not necessarily move. It sits in the palm. See the way I put it in the palm there? That lifeline. See the way it just sits there? My wrist doesn’t necessarily want to move. We don’t want this going on in our putting stroke. And this kind of just helps it for the exact same reason as obviously we’re building a forgiving set in our irons. It’s also why I’d probably steer away from let’s say more bladed putters. Don’t get me wrong, nothing wrong with these kind of putters and actually give you maximum feel when obviously you’re trying to know when you’re hitting it perfectly out the middle. However, head style like this makes more sense. You can hold a putt quite comfortably out the hill and tow with this putter and it go relatively similar distance. And even though I say Scotty Cameron’s a great investment secondhandwise in terms of they hold their value extremely well. Sadly this putter is almost as much as what I already have in the bag. So let’s find another more affordable option to go in this beginner golf bag. I’m going to go with Odyssey even though there’s tons of brands that obviously make great putters. However, I’ve always been a fan of the Stroke Lab mainly because it includes so much technology that we see in the more modernday um putters. Notice we’ve got this big thick grip. Not necessarily the most goodlooking headstyle that we’ve ever been graced with in the game of golf. But as I say with the rest of the bag, it’s going to hold its value over the next year, 2 years, 3 years. So go out, get something forgiving, play with a thicker grip. Not to mention, we seem to spend a fortune at the top end of the bag. Not necessarily that much money in terms of a nature when it comes to the bottom end. And I don’t mind you guys spending more on a putter because it’s going to be one of the most used clubs in a round of golf. Okay, let’s talk about hybrids and fairway woods. And I’m going to kind of leave this up to you realistically because you could have both, you could have one, but again, let’s talk about the dos and don’ts when it comes to hybrids and fairway woods. And also, let’s not necessarily overthink it. Now, obviously, we don’t have a four iron. And I’d only recommend a hybrid, by the way, to faster players. So, those players that can hit their let’s say 7 iron, 160 yards, 170 yards, a hybrid would make sense. and then a fivewood would also make sense or potentially a 3-wood if you’re really fast. That being said, the reason I said maybe one is that if you’re only hitting your 7R and 130 at the moment, 135 when it comes to delofted clubs and they come to longer shafts, so they’re harder to hit. Typically, I see a four hybrid from a beginner golfer that swings and hits a 7R around 130, 140, go the same distance as a fivewood. So at the moment you potentially have two clubs in the bag that do the same thing. Now of course that might change. You might have lessons. You’ve now got much faster. The point is it’s easier to potentially add to the bag then take stuff out and then put more stuff in. With that being said, let’s find some cheap affordable hybrids in here as well as obviously some decent fivewoods. Right, I’ve got my three hybrid choices on the ground there. And as you can see with this Adams hybrid as my example, you can have very small headed hybrids. This would be for a very, let’s say, faster player. I would say even though it’s got a great flex shaft, but they wouldn’t miss the middle much. Again, you can see that kind of impact strike on the middle there. This would be a lowflighted more length player. I would say keep it under the wind head style versus my bigger headed hybrids that I have on the ground here. And again, these range up in headstyles. I haven’t picked these for any particular reason apart from this. Callaway is only 3 years old. Forgiving. I’ve chosen the three hybrid here in a regular flex, but again could have a four hybrid. It’s tough to know which one’s going to suit you personally better, but again, as the theme of this video, it’s around £120. It’s Callaway. It’s going to hold its price. And if it doesn’t work, or maybe you think, actually, I just want a fivewood. And I’ll talk about the advantages of those in a minute, then you would be easy to swap. This Mazuno on the other hand, similar headstyle, as you can see, maybe a touch larger. So, you could say more forgiving, higher spinning, higher launching. But because it is a bit older, it’s only £50. Again, I like this option for the bag because realistically it’s underrated brand from Mizuno. The blue somewhat puts people off and as you can see the condition has seen better days. But for an experimental club that you might think this is the best thing since sliced bread or actually you hate it and you want a fairway wood or even potentially driving on if you’re a lot faster, it’s a cheap experiment rather than let’s say some of the more expensive clubs on our rack. Lastly is the kind of in between option. this Apex utility wood which only Callaway makes. And don’t get me wrong, we could be going for a decent let’s say Ping hybrid here which going to hold its price well or even the TSI hybrids that we have here, not a TSI 3 but two that’s more forgiving for example. My point is these bigname brands hold their price. However, this utility wood as shown down here is basically in between a fivewood and a hybrid. So, if you can’t make your mind up and actually you want a club that’s going to hold its price incredibly well, considering no other brand makes it, a utility wood for a beginner, I think is actually a really good option. Okay, let me look through and find some fivewoods and I’ll explain why I wouldn’t recommend a 3-wood for a complete beginner, nor actually a sevenwood. Before we get into my choices, I’m putting regular flex in all these hybrids and fairway woods for a complete beginner, even if you’re a fast beginner. mainly because the downsides of having, let’s say, too flexible of a shaft with a fairway or hybrid, it means it goes too high, potentially a touch left, but that’s a lot better than not getting it off the ground or it running along straight to the right hand side because you’re hitting these long shafts off the ground, which typically means you’re going to be coming across the ball more, which leads into that size spin to the right. Trust me, even if you’re fast, a regular flex fairway wood and hybrid just makes complete sense. Now, one thing to learn early on is that three woods are a lot more common than your fivewood. And even harder to find than that is a sevenwood. It’s why seven woods, even 10 years old, are a premium because there’s just not many of them out there. And for some golfers, they are perfect. For yourself that’s just starting, we don’t know yet. And if you find a good value one, trust me, you’re not going to lose any money. So, just buy it. However, don’t think it’s ruining your game. fivewood definitely worth getting. Cobra is a great affordable choice when it comes to obviously fairway woods as well. However, as you can see, I’ve got the low spin version here. Again, just like the hybrids, like the irons, we’re looking for height. We’re looking for forgiveness. So, we want bigger headed everything. It’s not to say that this Cobra doesn’t come in a bigger head. I’ve just picked the Max here, for example. And now, even though this is a three-wood, not a fivewood, we’ve now got the same head design. It’s just because I didn’t have a fivewood here that I didn’t pick it. The same reason that I picked up this Mazuno ST Max. And I think Mizuno, especially in 2025, had a great year, especially with their 230 Max driver. And again, this one’s brand new for the same price as this G425 Max. Which one would I choose to go in the bag right now? Probably the Ping. Mainly because it’s still going to hold its price. I know it’s going to hold its price. I have an X shaft in here because I couldn’t find one with a regular flex. But just know obviously you’d want a regular flex 5wood and a Ping G425 regular Flex 5 is going to be worth that kind of money and again two years time. As you notice, we’ve only got 10 clubs in the bag. And again, some of you might get on well with this five iron and hit it 200 odd yards and then your fivewood goes 220. That’s great. However, if there is a gap in the future, i.e. this goes 180 and this goes 240. Well, then a 7wood or another hybrid, a high lofted hybrid then makes sense. At the moment for the barebones, I think this is great. To be honest, I think we only need to put a driver in the back. The driver section is going to be one of the easiest to sort out because we’re going to go forgiving. We’re going to go generic. And as you’ll see through these heads, they’re all very similar. It’s one of the hardest clubs in the bag to obviously use and use well. So, let’s not overthink it. Let’s keep it simple and let’s keep it to a budget. Now let’s just talk about let’s say the highest lofted the softest flex and who that would be for. So again as I mentioned at the start if you’re coming into let’s say your later 50s 60s you want graphite irons I highly recommend a 12 degree driver. So if your 7 iron is not going more than let’s say 120 in the air 12 degree driver. This 917 D2 is actually kind of perfect with this light flex shaft cuz the slower you are the harder it is to create backspin. So there’s that perfect amount and we won’t get it in today. However for around £140 with those G400 irons and let’s say a fivewood and a wedge and a putter, your bag would be complete. Now, for you faster guys, however, leak it out to the right hand side, draw bias heads can help. And typically, you can tell because there’ll be a weight down here. See by the heel down here, that closes the face. For example, if you want another draw bias option to swap out that slice, this LTDX Max is great. Again, regular flex. However, for the majority of us that have just started the game, lessons are going to help more than most. Therefore, let’s go generic. This titleless TSI2, great value, basically came out four or five years ago, and it’s forgiving. It has a regular flex shaft and for the price-wise around £200. That’s where I think most beginners should start as this is a bigname brand. It’s going to hold its price for a long time. So if you need to go to lower spinner heads, for example, like this tailor made with a stiffer flex shaft, you can do that. Again, you can take the money that you put into your Titus driver, your ping driver, your Cobra driver, whatever it might be, and then put it into your next one, your lower spin one after your swing’s improved and potentially got faster and a lot more consistent. Right, this is my idea of as perfect of a beginner golf bag on a budget as you can get. As I mentioned, through this whole bag, we probably invested about £800 here, £850. However, in two years time, I can still see this bag being worth 650, £700, meaning that if you do need to go to smaller irons or let’s say a stiffer flex in your drive or maybe you want to go to more of a blade style putter, you can take the money out of this bag and put it into your next one and not necessarily have that depreciation that all brand new stuff has without knowing where your game’s going to be. Big thanks to the guys at Replay Golf for letting me obviously have full advantage of their store. Any questions, message me at ssgolfacademy.com.