Sub 70 Golf Clubs
Sub 70 for Beginners: Should You Start Here
A value brand that still asks you to know what you want.
The tension
Sub 70 is cheap, which suits a beginner. It is also built to order, which does not — because ordering a custom club requires knowing specifications a beginner has no way to know.
Those two facts pull in opposite directions, and the answer depends on how you approach it.
The straightforward route
Buy a used or entry-level package set, take lessons, and play for a season. Your swing speed, delivery and misses will all change substantially, and clubs specified around a beginner swing will be wrong within a year.
Then, once you are breaking 100 with some consistency and your typical miss is recognisable, order a proper set. That is the moment Sub 70’s value becomes real rather than theoretical.
If you want to start here anyway
Two rules. First, get fitted somewhere else before ordering, even briefly, so the specifications come from measurement rather than guesswork.
Second, choose 699 v2 and nothing more compact. The forgiving set is the correct category for a beginner regardless of what anyone says about learning with harder clubs. You cannot learn to strike a ball you cannot get airborne.
Buy fewer clubs
A beginner needs about seven. A fairway wood or hybrid, a 7-iron, a 9-iron, a pitching wedge, a sand wedge and a putter cover every shot you will face.
Fewer clubs means simpler decisions, faster rounds and more repetitions with each one.
The wedge
One sand wedge around 56 degrees with plenty of bounce. Not a 60. The lob wedge is the hardest club in golf and beginners buy it far more often than they should.
Where the money should actually go
Lessons. A beginner who spends their first budget on coaching and a basic set improves faster than one who buys good clubs and no instruction, and will then know what to order.
Know when you are ready to order
The signal to buy a proper set is a swing that has stopped changing week to week, and that is easier to see in data than in memory. FocusGolf tracks tempo, swing speed and consistency automatically from a Wear OS, Apple Watch or Garmin watch, with no sensors on the club, and stores every session so you can look back over months. When your numbers stop drifting and start settling, that is the point at which specifying a custom build makes sense rather than guessing at one.
Coach’s tip: Spend your first golf budget on lessons and seven clubs. You will play better sooner and you will actually know what your second set should be.
Model names current as of September 2026.