Two Pros Built Entire Bags of Used Clubs for £500 - Here's the Australian Version
Rising Sun Clubs — Used & Japanese golf clubs, professionally graded, shipped Australia-wide.
Rick Shiels and Peter Finch built full second-hand bags on a hard budget and went head-to-head. It's the best advert for used clubs ever filmed — so we've built the AUD blueprint.
If one video settles the used-vs-new debate, it's this one: two professional golfers, £500 each, entire bags of second-hand clubs, then a proper match. No lab, no marketing — just proof that a smartly-built used bag plays real golf. Watch the picks and the match:
The Lessons Hiding in Their Picks
- Pros shop by spec, not by year. Neither player chases the newest badge — they hunt the right loft, the right shaft, the right condition at the right price. That's the entire skill of used buying in one sentence.
- Budget goes to the scoring clubs. Watch where the money concentrates: playable wedges and a putter they trust, with the long clubs bought smart and older. Strokes live at the bottom of the bag.
- Condition beats brand at a price point. A clean, honest mid-tier club outperforms a beaten premium one every time — which is grading in a nutshell.
The A$1,000 Rising Sun Blueprint
Their £500 is roughly A$1,000 — a budget we work with constantly. Here's how we'd allocate it, based on what actually moves through our store:
| Slot | Budget | The play |
|---|---|---|
| Driver | ~$250 | Golden-era forgiveness — M-series or Ping G400 territory; see our budget driver picks |
| Fairway/hybrid | ~$150 | One high-lofted wood you can hit from anywhere beats two you can't |
| Irons | ~$350 | A graded game-improvement set two-plus generations back — the biggest per-dollar win in the bag |
| Wedges | ~$150 | One or two with genuinely sharp grooves — the non-negotiable slot |
| Putter | ~$100–150 | Older Spiders and mallets are the best value clubs in golf, full stop |
💡 The Japan bonus: the same budget stretches further through Japanese-sourced stock — better average condition, and the occasional premium JDM shaft hiding at a bargain price. It's the quiet edge the UK version of this challenge didn't have.
Why Buy From Us
This video is basically our business plan with British accents. Every club we sell is graded under our published grading system, specs listed in full — so you can run your own budget challenge with none of the condition gamble. New to it? Start with the ultimate used-buying guide.
Build Your Budget Bag — Australia-Wide Shipping
Professionally graded. $30 flat rate shipping. Free over $600.
The Bottom Line
Two pros proved a hard-budget used bag plays proper golf. The Australian version is even stronger — deeper Japanese-sourced condition, graded honestly. Watch the video, set your number, build the bag.
Honest prices, quality gear. Simple.