Golfers beware! U.S. Customs and Border Protection says its seizing an increasing number of counterfeit golf products by consumers over the Internet.
Bobby Saavedra, PGA Apprentice and Manager of Practice Tee in Tucson, knows a lot about golfing. Besides being really good at the game, he has a sharp eye for fake equipment.
“They are making them pretty good these days, I mean I’ve seen a few of the sets to where, you know the guy paid $300, it was supposed to be a $900 club set and they are great clubs,” he said.
Saavedra says many
times knock-off equipment will have the name of the manufacturer misspelled or
a different logo. Everything will look
similar, but it’s a fake.
U.S. Customs and Border protection is putting consumers on alert. It says counterfeit golf products being sold online have increased recently and Saavedra agrees.
“We do a lot of our ordering off of EBay and we’ve noticed over the past couple years that counterfeits have definitely gone up.” Read more here.
